Vilém Dušan Lambl, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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19th-century Czech physician
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Place of Birth: Letiny, Plzeň Region, Czech Republic
About Vilém Dušan Lambl
- Vilém Dušan Lambl (5 December 1824, Letiny – 12 February 1895) was a Czech physician from Letina, Kreis Pilsen, Bohemia. Lambl had a keen interest in the field of linguistics, particularly Slavic languages.
- After earning his degree in medicine from the University of Prague, he traveled extensively in Croatia, Serbia, Dalmatia, and Montenegro, conducting research of southern Slavic languages and culture.
- Following his return to Prague, he worked at Josef von Löschner's children's hospital until 1860, when he accepted a position at Kharkiv University.
- He is remembered for his description of an intestinal protozoan parasite that was initially discovered by Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), and is a cause of gastroenteritis.
- Lambl called the protozoan Cercomonas intestinalis.
- In 1888 the name was changed to Lamblia intestinalis by zoologist Raphael Anatole Émile Blanchard (1819–1900).
- In 1915 the species was renamed to Giardia lamblia by American zoologist Charles Wardell Stiles (1867–1941) in honor of Lambl and French biologist Alfred Mathieu Giard (1846–1908).
- Today the illness caused by the parasite is called either "lambliasis" or "giardiasis". With Löschner, he published "Aus dem Franz Josef-Kinder-Spitale in Prag", Part one: "Beobachtungen und Studien aus dem Gebiete der pathologischen Anatomie und Histologie" (1860), ("From the Franz-Josefs-Kinder-Spital in Prague, Observations and studies from the fields of pathological anatomy and histology"). Lambl's "excrescence"s are still important today as an anatomic feature essential to physiologic valvular coaptation; especially in the Aortic Valve.
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