Ettore Marchiafava

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Ettorre Marchiafava
Royal University of Rome
Author abbrev. (zoology)Marchiafava
Senator
Ettore Marchiafava
Senato del Regno
In office
24 November 1913 – 4 July 1914
PresidentGiuseppe Manfredi
ConstituencyRome

Ettore Marchiafava (3 January 1847 – 22 October 1935) was an Italian physician,

genetic disease of blood now known Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria or sometimes Strübing-Marchiafava-Micheli syndrome, in honour of the pioneer scientists. He was personal physician to three successive popes and also to House of Savoy. In 1913 he was elected to Senate of the Kingdom of Italy. He founded the first Italian anti-tuberculosis sanatorium at Rome. He was elected member of the Accademia dei Lincei
, becoming its vice-president in 1933.

Biography

Ettore Marchiafava born in Rome to Francesco Marchiafava and Marianna Vercelli. He graduated in medicine and surgery from the University of Rome (

Sapienza Università di Roma) in 1869. He earned doctorate degree in 1872. He won gold medal from his medical course. He immediately worked as assistant to Tommasi Crudeli
at pathology department of the University of Rome. He was appointed associate professor in 1881, and became full Professor from 19 April 1885. In 1886, he succeeded Crudeli as chair of the department. In 1916 he succeeded Guido Baccelli as chair of medicine, and in 1917 he was given additional appointment of Professor of medicine. He retired on 30 July 1922 and continued as Professor Emeritus.

During his professional career Marchiava served in several important offices. He was Director of the Cabinet of Pathological Histology at the University of Rome in 1882, member of the Higher Council of Education during 1895–1899, extraordinary member of the Provincial Health Council of Rome, member of Provincial Health Council of Rome, Vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the

Benedict XV. He was also official physician to the Royal House of Savoy. In 1913 he was elected senator in the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy.[4]

Achievements

Marchiafava first developed his first research interest in pathology from

Alphonse Laveran, finding it in the blood of the many patients with malaria fever.[5] They were the first to use proper staining (with methylene blue) to identify malarial parasite as distinct blue-coloured pigments in the blood cells. They showed that the parasites lived inside blood cell, and that they divide by simple splitting (fission). They were the first to recognize several the stages of development of the malarial parasite in human blood. They called the new microorganism Plasmodium in 1885. Their works helped to differentiate different types of malaria as a result of infection with different species of Plasmodium.[6] With Amico Bignami he published a classic monograph On Summer-Autumnal Fevers in 1892, which was translated into English in 1894. This was a major foundation in modern malariology. They reported the direct evidence of mosquito theory that mosquitoes transmit malaria.[7][8]

Marchiafava was the author of Sulle febbri malariche estivo-autunnali (1892) and La infezione malarica (1902). In 1884, with Angel Celli, he first observed

nephropathy and described streptococcal glomerulonephritis. In 1931, he described Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria in depth, and also a rare form of this disease Strübing-Marchiafava-Micheli Syndrome.[4][11][12][13][14]

In 1925, Marchiafava organised the first international conference on malaria.

Awards and honours

  • Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy (5 June 1881)
  • Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy (11 January 1885)
  • Knight of the
    Order of SS. Maurice and Lazarus
    (20 January 1889)
  • Officer of the Order of SS. Maurice and Lazarus (27 January 1890)
  • Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy (30 December 1894)
  • Elected honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (1905)
  • Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy (29 December 1907)
  • Knight of the Order of Civil Savoy (1916)
  • Commander of the Order of SS. Maurice and Lazarus (19 October 1923)
  • Grand Cordon of the Order of the Crown of Italy (13 November 1924)
  • Grand Officer of the Order of SS. Maurice and Lazarus (2 July 1926)
  • Manson Medal (1926)

References

  1. doi:10.1038/158938d0
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  2. PMID 13580262
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  3. ^ "Plasmodium". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
  4. ^ a b "Ettore Marchiafava". Whonamedit. Ole Daniel Enersen. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
  5. PMID 18581004
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  6. ISBN 9780199641024
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  7. PMID 23585685
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  8. PMID 20205846
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  9. PMID 23887763
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  10. PMID 23710388
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  11. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(01)18035-9
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  12. PMID 11516576
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  13. ISBN 978-0-19-971004-1
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  14. PMID 22609136
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Additional source

  • Conci, C (1975). "Repertorio delle biografie e bibliografie degli scrittori e cultori italiani di entomologia". Mem. Soc. Ent. Ital. 48: 817–1069.
  • Conci, C.; Poggi, R. (1996). "Iconography of Italian Entomologists, with essential biographical data". Mem. Soc. Ent. Ital. 75: 159–382, 418.
  • Hackett, L. W. (1936). "[Marchiafava, E.]". J. Parasitol. 22: 219–220.
  • Missiroli, A (1936). "[Marchiafava, E.]". Riv. Malariol. 15: 185–189.

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