Rebecca Craighill Lancefield - bibliography

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Biography

American bacteriologist, born January 5, 1895, fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, New York; died March 3, 1981.

Bibliography

  • R. Dochez, O. T. Avery and R. C. Lancefield:
    Studies on the biology of streptococcus. I. Antigenic relationship between strains of Streptococcus haemolyticus.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, New York, 1919, 30:179-213.
  • R. C. Lancefield and C. W. Metz:
    Non-disjunction and the chromosome relationship of Drosophila willistoni. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 1921, 7: 225-229.
  • R. C. Lancefield and C. W. Metz:
    The sex-linked group of mutant characters in Drosophila willistoni.
    Am Nat, 1922, 36: 211-241.
  • R. C. Lancefield:
    Antigenic relationships of the nucleo-proteins from the gram-positive cocci. (Abstract)
    Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, New York, 1924, 22: 109-111.
  • R. C. Lancefield:
    The immunological relationships of Streptococcus viridans and certain of its chemical fractions. I. Serological reactions obtained with anti-bacterial sera.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1925, 42: 377-395.
  • R. C. Lancefield:
    The immunological relationships of Streptococcus viridans and certain of its chemical fractions. II. Serological reactions obtained with anti-nucleoprotein sera.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1925, 42: 397-412.
  • R. C. Lancefield:
    The antigenic complex of Streptococcus haemolyticus. I. Demonstration of a type-specific substance in extracts of Streptococcus haemolyticus.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1928, 47: 91-103.
  • R. C. Lancefield:
    The antigenic complex of Streptococcus haemolyticus. II. Chemical and immunological properties of the protein fractions.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1928, 47: 469-480.
  • R. C. Lancefield:
    The antigenic complex of Streptococcus haemolyticus. III. Chemical and immunological properties of the species-specific substance.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1928, 47: 481-491.
  • R. C. Lancefield:
    The antigenic complex of Streptococcus haemolyticus. IV. Anaphylaxis with two non-type specific fractions.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1928, 47: 843-855.
  • R. C. Lancefield:
    The antigenic complex of Streptococcus haemolyticus. V. Anaphylaxis with the type-specific substance. The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1928, 47: 857-875.
  • E. W. Todd and R. C. Lancefield:
    Variants of hemolytic streptococci; their relation to type-specific substance, virulence, and toxin. The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1928, 48:751-761.
  • R. C. Lancefield and E. W. Todd:
    Antigenic differences between matt hemolytic streptococci and their glossy variants.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1928, 48: 769-790.
  • R. C. Lancefield:
    Note on the susceptibility of certain strains of hemolytic streptococcus to a streptococcus bacteriophage.
    Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, 1932, 30: 169.
  • R. C. Lancefield:
    A serological differentiation of human and other groups of hemolytic streptococci.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1933, 57: 571-595.
  • R. C. Lancefield:
    A serological differentiation of specific types of bovine hemolytic streptococci (Group B).
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1934, 59: 441-458.
  • R. C. Lancefield:
    Loss of the properties of hemolysin and pigment formation without change in immunological specificity in a strain of Streptococcus haemolyticus.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1934 59: 459-469.
  • R. Goodner, R. C. Lancefield, and H. F. Swift:
    The serological classification of hemolytic streptococci in relation to epidemiological problems.
    The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1935, 190: 445-453. (Review)
  • R. C. Lancefield and R. Hare:
    The serological differentiation of pathogenic and non-pathogenic streptococci from parturient women. The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1935, 61: 335.349.
  • R. C. Lancefield and H. F. Swift:
    The problem of serological classification of haemolytic streptococci.
    Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress for Microbiology, 25 July-01 August, 1936, London, pp. 1936-1937. (Abstract)
  • R. C. Lancefield:
    Two serological types of group B hemolytic streptococci with related, but not identical, type-specific substances.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1938, 67: 25-40.
  • R. C. Lancefield:
    A micro-precipitin technic for classifying hemolytic streptococci, and improved methods for producing antisera. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, 1938, 38: 473-478.
  • G. K. Hirst and R. C. Lancefield:
    Antigenic properties of the type-specific substance derived from group A hemolytic streptococci. The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1939, 69: 425-445.
  • R. C. Lancefield:
    Type-specific antigens, M and T, of matt and glossy variants of group A hemolytic streptococci.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1940, 71: 521-537.
  • R. C. Lancefield:
    The significance of M and T antigens in the cross reactions between certain types of group A hemolytic streptococci.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1940, 71: 539-550.
  • R. C. Lancefield:
    Specific relationship of cell composition to biological activity of hemolytic streptococci. Harvey Lectures 1941, 36: 251.
  • H. F. Swift, A. T. Wilson, and R. C. Lancefield:
    Typing group A hemolytic streptococci by M precipitin reaction in capillary pipettes.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1943, 78: 127133.
  • R. C. Lancefield:
    Studies on the antigenic composition of group A hemolytic streptococci. I. Effects of proteolytic enzymes on streptococcal cells.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1943, 78: 465476.
  • R. C. Lancefield and W. A. Stewart:
    Studies on the antigenic composition of group A hemolytic streptococci. II. The occurrence of strains in a given type containing M but no T antigen.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1944, 79: 79-88.
  • R. C. Lancefield and R. F. Watson:
    Studies on the antigenic composition of group A hemolytic streptococci. III. Types with serologically identical M but distinct T antigens types 10 and 12.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1944, 79: 89-98.
  • R. C. Lancefield, W. A. Stewart, A. T. Wilson and H. F. Swift:
    Studies on the antigenic composition of group A hemolytic streptococci. IV. Related T but distinct M antigens in types 15, 17, 23, 30 and in types 4, 24, 26, 28, 29 and 46. Identification by slide agglutination.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1944, 79: 99-114.
  • R. C. Lancefield and H. F. Swift:
    Comparison of methods for capillary pipette typing of group A hemolytic streptococci. AAF News Letter, 1945, 2: 25.
  • R. C. Lancefield and V. P. Dole:
    The properties of T antigens extracted from group A hemolytic streptococci.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1946, 84: 449-470.
  • R. C. Lancefield and G. E. Perlmann:
    Preparation and properties of type-specific M antigen isolated from a group A, type I, hemolytic streptococcus.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1952, 96: 72-82.
  • R. C. Lancefield and G. E. Perlmann:
    Preparation and properties of a protein (R antigen) occurring in streptococci of group A, type 28 and in certain streptococci of other serological groups.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1952, 96: 83-97.
  • R. C. Lancefield:
    Cellular constituents of group A streptococci concerned in antigenicity and virulence.
    In: Streptococcal Infections, edited by M. McCarty, pp. 3-18. New York: Columbia University Press, 1954.
  • M. McCarty and R. C. Lancefield:
    Variation in the group-specific carbohydrate of group A streptococci. I. Immunochemical studies on the carbohydrates of variant strains.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1955, 102: 11-28.
  • R. C. Lancefield:
    Differentiation of group A streptococci with a common R antigen into three serological types, with special reference to the bactericidal test.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1957, 106: 525-544..
  • R. C. Lancefield:
    Occurrence of R antigen specific for group A type 3 streptococci.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1958, 108:329-544.
  • R. C. Lancefield:
    Persistence of type specific antibodies in man following infection with group A streptococci.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1959, 110: 271-292.
  • E. W. Hook, R. R. Wagner, and R. C. Lancefield:
    An epizootic in Swiss mice caused by a group A streptococcus, newly designated type 50.
    The American Journal of Hygiene, Baltimore, 1960, 72:111-119.
  • R. F. Watson, G. K. Hirst, and R. C. Lancefield:
    Bacteriological studies of cardiac tissues obtained at autopsy from eleven patients dying with rheumatic fever. Arthritis and Rheumatism, 1961, 4: 74.
  • R. C. Lancefield:
    Current knowledge of type specific M antigens of group A streptococci.
    The Journal of Immunology, 1962, 89: 307-313.
  • W. F. Schneider, S. Chapman, V. Schulz, R. M. Krause, and R. C. Lancefield:
    Prevention of streptococcal pharyngitis among military personnel and their civilian dependents by mass prophylaxis.
    The New England Journal of Medicine, Boston, 1964, 270: 1205.
  • R. C. Lancefield and E. H. Freimer:
    Type-specific polysaccharide antigens of group B streptococci.
    The Journal of Hygiene, Cambridge, UK, 1964, 64: 191-202.
  • R. C. Lancefield:
    Current problems in studies of streptococci. (2nd Griffith Memorial Lecture)
    The Journal of General Microbiology, London, 1970, 55:161.
  • Kuttner and R. C. Lancefield:
    Unsolved problems of the non-suppurative complications of group A streptococcal infections.
    In: Infectious Agents and Host Reactions, edited by Stuart Mudd, pp. 174-196. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Co., 1970.
  • R. C. Lancefield, J. Rotta, R. M. Krause, W. Everly and H. Lackland:
    New approaches for the laboratory recognition of M types of group A strptococci.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1971, 134: 1298-1315.
  • R. C. Lancefield, M. McCarty and W. Everly:
    Multiple mouse-protective antibodies directed against group B streptococci. Special reference to antibodies effective against protein antigens.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1975, 142: 165-179.
  • R. C. Lancefield, S. D. Elliott and M. McCarty:
    Teichoic acids of group D streptococci with special reference to strain from pig meningitis (Streptococcus suis).
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1977, 145: 490-499.
  • R. C. Lancefield, J. Y. Tai and E. C. Gotschlich:
    Isolation of type-soecific polusaccharide antigen from group B type Ib streptococci.
    The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1979, 149: 58-66.
  • Elizabeth M. O'Hern:
    Rebecca Craighill Lancefield, Pioneer Microbiologist.
    National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 20014.
  • Maclyn McCarty:
    Rebecca Creighill Lancefield. January 5, 1895–March 3, 1981.
    Biographical memoirs, 1987, 57: 226-246.

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