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Derrick Baxby

Derrick Baxby

British microbiologist

Derrick Baxby (1940 – 24 March 2017) was a British microbiologist and authority on Orthopoxviruses.[1][2] He was a senior lecturer in medical microbiology at the University of Liverpool.[3]

He proposed that a presumed horsepox virus could be the long-sought ancestor of vaccinia.[4] In 1977, he reported 12 cases of cowpox occurring in England between 1965 and 1976.[4]

Selected publications

  • Jenner's Smallpox Vaccine: The Riddle of Vaccinia Virus and Its Origin. Heinemann Educational Books, London, 1981. ISBN 0435540572[5][6]
  • "Two hundred years of vaccination", Current Biology, Vol. 6 (1996), No. 7, pp. 769–772.
  • "The End of Smallpox", History Today, Vol. 49, No. 3 (March 1999).
  • "Edward Jenner's Inquiry; A Bicentenary Analysis", Vaccine, 1999 January 28;17(4):301-7.

References

  1. [1]
    "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 October 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. [2]
    "Derrick Baxby". St Helens Star. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
  3. [3]
    "Notes on Contributors". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. XXXIV (2): 242. 1 October 1979. doi:10.1093/jhmas/XXXIV.2.242.
  4. [4]
    Esparza, José; Schrick, Livia; Damaso, Clarissa R.; Nitsche, Andreas (19 December 2017). "Equination (inoculation of horsepox): An early alternative to vaccination (inoculation of cowpox) and the potential role of horsepox virus in the origin of the smallpox vaccine". Vaccine. 35 (52): 7222–7230. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.11.003. ISSN 1873-2518. PMID 29137821.
  5. [5]
    John, Duffy (1 October 1982). "Derrick Baxby. Jenner's Smallpox Vaccine: The Riddle of Vaccinia Virus and Its Origin". The American Historical Review. 87 (4). doi:10.1086/ahr/87.4.1044-a.
  6. [6]
    Wilkinson, Lise (1982). "Derrick Baxby, Jenner's smallpox vaccine. The riddle of vaccinia virus and its origin". Medical History. 26 (1): 94–95. doi:10.1017/S0025727300040825.
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