Background
KARPOV, Sergey was born in 1903.
KARPOV, Sergey was born in 1903.
1927 graduated Medical Faculty, Tomsk University.
Board member, All-Union Society of Epidemiologists, Microbiologists and Infectionists. Co-founder and Chairman, Tomsk Department, above society. Со-Editor, “Microbiology” section, “Bolshaya meditsinskaya entsiklopediya” (Large Medical Encyclopedia), 2nd edition.
Member, Editor Council, journals “Voprosy virusologii” (Problems of Virology) and “Zhurnal mikrobiologii, epidemiologii i immunologii” (Journal of Microbiology, Epidemiology and Immunology). Discovered hemolytic properties of Brucellae, made original studies on toxin formation of Corynebacterium diphtheriae in the presence of heavy metal salts. Proved that some types of ticks, mosquitoes and sandflies assist in the natural circulation of Pasteurella tularensis.
Investigated role of water factor in epidemiology of tularemia. Substantiated feasibility of phage prophylaxis in typhoid. Studied epidemiology and prophylaxis of spring-summer tick-borne encephalitis.
1927-1929 intern, Clinic of Infectious Diseases, Tomsk University. 1929-1939 associate, Tomsk Bacteriological Institute.
Religion is always aggressive against any new scientific ideas.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.