Aladár Aujeszky (11 January 1869
Pest – 9 March 1933
Budapest
Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...
) was a Hungarian veterinary pathologist, professor of bacteriology and microbiologist, noted for his work on
pseudorabies.
Pseudorabies (also known as PRV,
Aujeszky's disease
Aujeszky's disease, usually called pseudorabies in the United States, is a viral disease in swine that is endemic in most parts of the world. It is caused by pseudorabies virus (PRV). Aujeszky's disease is considered to be the most economically ...
, infectious
bulbar paralysis, or mad itch), is caused by a virus with
icosahedral symmetry and belongs to the subfamily
Alphaherpesvirinae
''Alphaherpesvirinae'' is a subfamily of viruses in the family ''Herpesviridae'', primarily distinguished by reproducing more quickly than other subfamilies in the ''Herpesviridae''. In animal virology the most important herpesviruses belong to ...
within the family
Herpesviridae
''Orthoherpesviridae'', previously named and more widely known as ''Herpesviridae'', is a large family of DNA viruses that cause infections and certain diseases in animals, including humans. The members of this family are commonly known as herp ...
. This subfamily has a wide host range and attacks the
peripheral nervous system
The peripheral nervous system (PNS) is one of two components that make up the nervous system of Bilateria, bilateral animals, with the other part being the central nervous system (CNS). The PNS consists of nerves and ganglia, which lie outside t ...
of the host. It was first described in 1813 in a situation where cattle and pigs shared a stable. In 1909 Weiss found that pigs are the reservoir host of the virus, and that, even though other species such as cattle, sheep, cats, dogs, goats, horses, raccoons, skunks, mice, and rats may transmit the disease, the virus completes its life cycle only in pigs.
Aujeszky studied under Endre Hőgyes. From 1907 to 1933 he worked in the Department of Bacteriology of the Royal Academy of Veterinary Medicine. He was the author of 528 publications and director of the Institute of Microbiology at the Veterinary School in Budapest.
References
External links
United States Department of Agriculture - Pseudorabies (Aujeszky’s Disease) and Its Eradication
1869 births
1933 deaths
Burials at Kerepesi Cemetery
Hungarian pathologists
Pathologists from Austria-Hungary
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