- Vilém Dušan Lambl
Vilém Dušan Lambl (
December 5 ,1824 -February 12 ,1895 ) was a Czech physician. He was a professor at the Universities of Warsaw and Kharkov, and also worked at Löschner's children's hospital inPrague .He is remembered for his description of an intestinal
protozoan parasite that was initially discovered byAnton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), and is a cause ofgastroenteritis . Lambl called the protozoan "Cercomonas intestinalis". In 1888 the name was changed to "Lamblia intestinalis" byzoologist Raphael Anatole Émile Blanchard (1819-1900}. In 1915 the species was renamed to "Giardia lamblia " by zoologistCharles Wardell Stiles (1867-1941} in honor of Lambl and Frenchbiologist Alfred Mathieu Giard (1846-1908). Today the illness caused by the parasite is called eitherlambliasis orgiardiasis .Lambl was also a student of
linguistics ; after receiving his degree in medicine from theUniversity of Prague in the 1840s, he spent considerable time in theBalkans studying southern Slavic languages.Eponym named after Lambl:
* "Lambl's excrescences": Small fibrin deposits on theaortic valve .References:
* [http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2929.html Who Named It?, Vilem Dusan Lambl]
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