José Lemos Monteiro da Silva, Brazilian microbiologist and immunologist (Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais State 24 October 1893 – São Paulo 06 November 1935)

Authored 76 papers

Coined the term ricketsiosis (1931)

Improved the preparation methods for sera against diphtheria and tetanus

Established a simple and economic technique for tetanic antitoxin production

Immunização anti-tetanica pelo methodo toxoide-toxina. Mem. Inst. Butantan 2:85, 1925

Anatoxina diftérica e seu valor prático. Preparo, poder antigenico, emprego na produção de antitoxina e na prophylaxia da diphteria Mem. Inst. Butantan 3:96, 1926

Proposed the Monteiro-Godinho filtration technique

Nouvelle technique pour la préparation du vaccin contre la fievre jaune C.R. Soc. Biol. 104:695-7, 1930

Developed a technique of vaccine production against Rocky Mountain spotted fever (1933)

One of the firsts to show the presence of bacteriophages in rivers

Presence du bacteriophage dans l’eau des rivieres de S. Paulo. Mem. Inst. Butantan 3:187, 1926

LINKS

https://bibliotecadigital.butantan.gov.br/arquivos/81/PDF/1659.pdf (bibliography)