Luiz Rachid Trabulsi, Brazilian microbiologist (Vargem Grande, Maranhão State 18 August 1927 – São Paulo 05 June 2005)
Internationally recognized as expert on Enterobacteriae
ACHIEVEMENTS
Methods/Discoveries
Developed Trabulsi-Ewing Sodium Acetate Agar
With W.H. Ewing. Sodium acetate medium for the differentiation of Shigella and Escherichia cultures. Pub. Health Lab. 20:137-40, 1962
Developed other culture media
With M.R.F. Toledo & C.F. Fontes. Uma modificação do meio de Rugai e Araújo para a realização simultânea dos testes de produção de gás a partir de glicose, H2S, uréase e triptofano desaminase. Rev. Microbiol. 13:309-15, 1982
With M.R.F. Toledo & C.F. Fontes. Um meio para a realização dos testes de motilidade, indol e lisina descarboxilase. Rev. Microbiol. 13:230-5, 1982
With Heriberto J. Fernandez first demonstrated that Campylobacter jejuni could be toxigenic
With H. Fernandez, U. Fagundes Neto, F. Fernandes & M.A. Pedra. Culture supernatants of Campylobacter jejuni induce a secretory response in jejunal segments of adult rats. Infect. Immun. 40:42931, 1983
With H. Fernandez, M.R.F. Toledo & U. Fagundes Neto. Aislamiento de Campylobacter jejuni em niños com diarrea aguda y controles sanos. Rev. Med. Chile 112:238-41, 1984
Demonstrated that diagnosis of intestinal infection caused by enteropathogenic Escherichia coli may be accomplished via immunofluorescence
With M. C. Sampaio developed a vaccine for acute diarrhea (2000s)
New serotypes
Demonstrated that Salmonella pullorum and Salmonella gallinarum must be regarded as distinct serotypes
With P. R. Edwards. The differentiation of Salmonella pullorum and Salmonella gallinarum by biochemical methods. Cornell Vet. 52:563-9, 1962
With A.F. Pestana, A. Campedelli Filho & C. Troice. Isolation of three new serotypes of Erysipelothrix rhusilopathiae. Rev. Microbiol. 2, 1970
With J.A. Serrano, M.R. F. Toledo & M.E. Zuliani described various serotypes of enteroinvasive Escherichia coli
With R.J. Gross, L.V. Thomas, T. Cheasty, N.P. Day, B. Rowe & M.R.F. Toledo. Enterotoxigenic and enteroinvasive Escherichia coli strains belonging to a new O group, O167. J. Clin. Microbiol. 17:521-3, 1983
MEMBERSHIP
General Society for Microbiology (1970-8)
New York Academy of Sciences (1971-6; 1992-)
HONORS
Trabulsiella McWhorter, Haddock, Nocon, Steigerwalt, Brenner, Aleksic, Bockemühl & Farmer 1991 (Enterobacteria)