Latyshev, Nikolai Ivanovich

In 1912, he graduated from the medical faculty of Moscow University .

Since 1915, he served as an epidemiologist in various military organizations for over 20 years, mainly in the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Since 1937 he worked in the Department of Parasitology VIEM .

From 1945 to 1951 - head of the laboratory of subtropical diseases at the N. F. Gamalei Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR .

The author of over 60 scientific papers, including four monographs.

In 1923, his monograph on malaria and the fight against it was published and helped organize the fight against malaria in the USSR.

He studied tick-borne relapsing fever, mosquito fever and cutaneous leishmaniasis. As a result of self-infection, N.I. Latyshev first established a specific carrier of Central Asian tick-borne relapsing fever, the tick Ornithodoros papillipes, and also discovered a new form of this disease associated with large gerbils (Rhombomys opimus), caused by a special pathogen - Spirochaeta latyschewii (Borrelia latyschewii).

In works on cutaneous leishmaniasis, he proved that this disease is a zoonosis - a disease of large gerbils and some other rodents, from which the pathogen is transmitted to humans by mosquitoes.

In 1938 - for the first time he set an experience in improving the natural focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the desert, based on the simultaneous destruction of large gerbils and mosquitoes that live in their burrows.

• Malaria and the fight against it, M. - Pg., 1923;
• Experience in eliminating the endemic focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Turkmenistan, Dokl. USSR Academy of Sciences, v. 30, No. 1, p. 93, 1941 (sovm, with Kryukova A.P.);
• The role of the large gerbil in the storage of cutaneous leishmaniasis virus during the epidemic period, ibid., P. 90 (joint, with Kryukova A.P.);
• Epidemiology of cutaneous leishmaniasis in a sandy desert, in the book: Probl, cutaneous leishmaniasis, ed. P.V. Kozhevnikova, p. 55, Ashgabat, 1941 (sovm, with A. Kryukova);
• The doctrine of cutaneous leishmaniasis, M., 1947 (sovm, with others);
• Borovsky's disease, M., 1953 (sovm, with others).

Zasukhin D.N. and Kryukova I.N. In memory of the outstanding Soviet parasitologist Nikolai Ivanovich Latyshev, Med. parasitol., t. 41, No. 3, p. 346, 1972.

• Order of the Badge of Honor
• I. I. Mechnikov Prize (1949) - for work on cutaneous leishmaniasis
• medals

Wife - Alexandra Petrovna Kryukova ^[1]

• Latyshev, Nikolai Ivanovich on the official website of the RAS
• Latyshev Nikolai Ivanovich - Big Medical Encyclopedia (neopr.) . bme.org. Date of treatment December 5, 2016.