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Castellani, Aldo was born on September 8, 1877 in Florence, Italy. Son of Ettore and Violante (Giuliani) Castellani.
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Castellani, Aldo was born on September 8, 1877 in Florence, Italy. Son of Ettore and Violante (Giuliani) Castellani.
Doctor of Medicine, University of Florence, 1899. Studied University of Bonn, London School of Tropical Medicine.
He worked for a time in Bonn and joined the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in London in 1901. As bacteriologist with the Royal Society Commission on Sleeping Sickness in 1902, he went to Entebbe, Uganda with George Carmichael Low and Cuthbert Christy. He demonstrated the cause and means of transmission of sleeping sickness, discovered the spirochete of yaws, and did other original work in bacteriology and in parasitic diseases of the skin.
In 1903 he was appointed Bacteriologist to the Government of Ceylon at the Central laboratory in Colombo and continued research in mycology and bacteriology, describing several new species of intestinal bacilli.
He invented the absorption test for the serological identification of closely allied organisms. He left Ceylon in 1915 for Naples where he took the Chair of Medicine.
In 1919 Castellani went to London as Consultant to the Ministry of Pensions. He became lecturer on mycology and mycotic diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and established a consulting practice in Harley Street.
Castellani was President of the International Society of Dermatology from 1960–1964, which he had founded in 1959.
He was also professor of tropical medicine at the State University of Louisiana and also at the Royal University of Rome. He followed the Queen of Italy Marie José into exile in Portugal and ended his life as Professor at Lisbon"s Institute of Tropical Medicine. Castellani died in 1971.
Castellani"s paint (Carbol fuchsin solution) is still occasionally used to treat fungal skin infections.
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Member Foreign Office Royal Society’son First Sleeping Sickness Commission, Uganda, Africa, 1902-1903. Fellow Royal College Physicians, London, Royal Society Tropical Medicine, London, American College Physical, Royal Society Medicine.
Clubs: Atheneum (London).
Married Josephine Ambler Stead, of Yorkshire, England, January 2, 1906.