Theiler

[ tahy-ler ]

noun

Max, 1899–1972, South African medical scientist, in the U.S. after 1922: Nobel Prize in medicine 1951.

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The cockroach as an experimental vector of the virus of spontaneous mouse encephalomyelitis (Theiler).
The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches | Louis M. Roth
Theiler has determined that it is transmitted by an Ixodid tick, Margaropus decoloratus.
Handbook of Medical Entomology | William Albert Riley

British Dictionary definitions for Theiler

Theiler

/ (ˈtaɪlə) /

noun

Max. 1899–1972, US virologist, born in South Africa, who developed a vaccine against yellow fever. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1951

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