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I was invited to talk about Zammit's discovery of transmission of brucellosis by goats' milk and several people wished to use the slides for teaching: the slides are 'TZ power pt ppt' and notes for each slide are in 'A History of Brucellosis'. A paper about Zammit's scientific work is TZ Malta Med J and there is an editorial about the Zammit 'Museum Valletta'. A bibliogrphy of his medical and scientific papers is listed in TZ biblio...
Caruana Scicluna was a key researcher who helped both Bruce and Zammit. Shaw was the first person to infect a goat, but did not publish his work ! 'A history of brucellosis in Malta and the Mediterranean' is in the on-line Journal of Maltese History http://maltesehistoryonline.com/ A paper on 'Captain Kennedy and the sexual transmission of Brucellosis' relates how he won his Gold Medal from Edinburgh University (wyatt[1].pdf) (See also 'The gut...' below). Captain Sheldon Dudley RN wrote of inhalation of Brucella .
Please use any of this material for teaching - I should be pleased to hear from you. |