Alberto Leopoldo Barton Thompson, Peruvian bacteriologist of English ancestry (Buenos Aires 18 July 1870 – Lima 25 October 1950)

Discovered etiological agent of Carrion disease or Oroya fever in 1905 but published in 1909. Strong et al. confirmed his finding and named the genus Bartonella in his honor.

Descripción de elementos endo-globulares hallados en los enfermos de fiebre de verruga. Cronica Medica 26:7-10, 1909. 

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY

La plaga de los cocales del Departamento de La Libertad. Mem. Est. Exp. La Molina (1929)

La lucha contra el paludismo (1927)

Disenteria bacilar. Cron. Med. Lima (1915)

Un caso de distomatosis pulmonar contraida en el Peru. Cron. Med. 27:142-4, 1910