Shortt, Henry Edward

Helen J Power, Wellcome Trust Centre, London, UK

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003579

1887–1987British protozoologist and entomologist who elucidated the role of sandflies in the transmission of visceral leishmaniasis or kala azarand who with P. C. C. Garnham discovered the exoerythrocytic schizonts or tissue stage of mammalian malaria parasites.

Keywords: protozoology; entomology; leishmaniasis; malaria; Phlebotomus argentipes

 Further Reading
    Garnham PC (1988) Henry Edward Shortt 1887–1987. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 34: 715–751.
    Shortt HE, Garnham PC and Malamos B (1948) The pre-erythrocytic stage of mammalian malaria. British Medical Journal 1: 192–194.
    Shortt HE, Menon KP and SeetharamaLyer PV (1940) The form of Plasmodium gallinaceumpresent in the incubation period of the infection. Indian Journal of Medical Research 28: 273–276.
    Shortt HE, Rao RS and Swaminath CS (1936) Cultivation of the viruses of sandfly fever and dengue fever on the chorioallantoic membrane of the chick embryo. Indian Journal of Medical Research 23: 865–870.
    Swaninath CS, Shortt HE and Anderson LAP (1942) Transmission of Indian kala-azar to man by the bites of Phlebotomus argentipes. Indian Journal of Medical Research 30: 473–477.

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Power, Helen J(Apr 2001) Shortt, Henry Edward. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0003579]