Arturo Curbelo Hernandez, Cuban bacteriologist (Pinar del Río 01 September 1901 – La Habana 21 April 1973)

Authored 264 papers and 11 books

Discovered the etiology of epidemic ileocolitis

Proposed Havana doctrine or Escherichia coli pathogenicity

Metodo ideal de administración del Lactobacillus acidophilus con fines terapeuticos. Rev. Med. Cubana (1931)

With Reinaldo Marquez Camacho discovered new serotypes: Salmonella cubana (1945) & Salmonella havana (1937)

Authored the book chapter Fever due to rat bite including sodoku in Clinical Laboratory Methods and Diagnosis by Robert Gradwohl (1943)