Person Lainson; Ralph (1927 - 2015) Lainson Ralph 1927 - 2015 British Male Upper Beeding, West Sussex, England 21/02/1927 19270221 05/05/2015 20150505

Parasitologist Parasites Honours: OBE 1996 Ralph Lainson was well known his work on parasitic protozoa, especially leishmania. His greatest contribution was the elucidation of the Leishmania complex in Latin America whereby the identification and epidemiology of the different subspecies led to a new approach to the subject. Since 1965, from the small but highly productive Wellcome Parasitology Unit in Amazonia, he carried out extensive field and laboratory studies on the vertebrate and sandfly hosts of the parasite, incriminating and identifying new vectors, new animal reservoirs and new forms of Leishmania. He showed that the pathology and prognosis of human leishmania infections, apparently so variable, depend upon the particular subspecies of parasite involved and scientific methods can now be applied to reduce the incidence of this largely incurable and mutilating tropical disease. Ralph was a protozoologist whose brilliant work has enabled him to unravel difficult problems also in malaria, toxoplasmosis, coccidiosis and other parasitic infections; he described many new species in reptiles, birds and mammals in temperate and tropical regions. Professor Ralph Lainson OBE FRS died on 5 May 2015. Fellow 18/03/1982 55 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Lainson International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 21 Feb 1927 - 05 May 2015 NA6186 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/36631073 0f1543f8-991b-434d-b4d6-48a29e3c0f41