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To KK, Yuen KY. In memory of Patrick Manson, founding father of tropical medicine and the discovery of vector-borne infections. Emerg Microbes Infect. 2012;1(10):e31doi: 10.1038/emi.2012.32.
To, K. K., & Yuen, K. Y. (2012). In memory of Patrick Manson, founding father of tropical medicine and the discovery of vector-borne infections. Emerging microbes & infections, 1(10), e31. https://doi.org/10.1038/emi.2012.32
To, Kelvin Kw, and Yuen, Kwok-Yung. "In memory of Patrick Manson, founding father of tropical medicine and the discovery of vector-borne infections." Emerging microbes & infections vol. 1,10 (2012): e31. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/emi.2012.32
To KK, Yuen KY. In memory of Patrick Manson, founding father of tropical medicine and the discovery of vector-borne infections. Emerg Microbes Infect. 2012 Oct;1(10):e31. doi: 10.1038/emi.2012.32. Epub 2012 Oct 24. PMID: 26038403; PMCID: PMC3630944.
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Emerg Microbes Infect. 2012 Oct;1(10):e31. doi: 10.1038/emi.2012.32. Epub 2012 Oct 24.

In memory of Patrick Manson, founding father of tropical medicine and the discovery of vector-borne infections.

Emerging microbes & infections

Kelvin Kw To, Kwok-Yung Yuen

Affiliations

  1. Department of Microbiology, State Key Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Research Centre for Infection and Immunology, The University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong, China.

PMID: 26038403 PMCID: PMC3630944 DOI: 10.1038/emi.2012.32

Abstract

Patrick Manson, a clinician-scientist serving in China (1866-1889), discovered that many tropical infectious diseases require a vector peculiar to warm climate for person to person transmission. He demonstrated the nocturnal periodicity of microfilariae in the blood of patients with elephantiasis. These microfilariae undergo metamorphosis when ingested by the mosquito acting as the vector for the completion of their life cycle. Furthermore, he demonstrated the linkage between the lung fluke and endemic haemoptysis by finding operculated eggs in patients' sputa. He predicted that the miracidium from hatched eggs uses crustaceans, such as fresh-water snails found at tropical conditions, as the intermediate hosts in the life cycle of many trematodes. His vector hypothesis leads to vector control which is now the cornerstone for the World Health Organization's programme for the elimination/control of lymphatic filariasis, dracunculiasis and malaria. Before leaving China, he established the Alice Memorial Hospital, the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese (the forerunner of the University of Hong Kong), and the Hong Kong Medical Society for medical service and education. He also incepted the Hong Kong Dairy Farm for supplying hygienic milk affordable by pregnant women, children and patients.

Keywords: Patrick Manson; tropical disease; vector

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