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Frenkel, Jakob Karl (1921–2013)

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Born in Darmstadt (Germany), deceased in Santa Fe (USA) – he was one of the outstanding American medical parasitologists with a broad international reputation. He studied at UCLA at Berkeley and San Francisco School of Medicine, started as a researcher at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory at Hamilton, stayed at the NIH (Bethesda), and was full Professor at the Universities of Kansas City, Kansas (1956–1996), and later in Albuquerque (New Mexico) (Fig. 1).

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Jack Frenkel in his 1970s

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  • Dubey JP, Miller NL, Frenkel JK (1970) Toxoplasma life cycle in cats. J Am Vet Med Assoc 157:1767–1770

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  • Frenkel JK (1953) Infections with organisms resembling Toxoplasma, together with the description of a new organism Besnoitia jellisoni. In: Attidel VI congress international di microbiologica, pp 426–437

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  • Frenkel JK (1970) Pursuing Toxoplasma. J Infect Dis 122:553–554

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  • Frenkel JK (1976) Pneumocystis jiroveci n. sp. from man: morphology, physiology, and immunology in relation to pathology. Natl Cancer Inst Monogr 43:13–30

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  • Frenkel JK, Dubey JP (1975) Hammondia hammondi: a new coccidian of cats producing cysts in muscle of other mammals. Science 189:222–224

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  • Frenkel JK et al (1966) Latent Pneumocystis infection of rats, relapse and chemotherapy. Lab Invest 15:1554–1577

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  • Frenkel JK, Heydorn AO, Mehlhorn H, Rommel M (1978) Sarcocystinae: nominadubia and available names. Parasitol Res 58:115–139

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  • Frenkel JK, Mehlhorn H, Heydorn AO (1987) Over the molehills and mountains of coccidialand. Parasitol Today 3:250–253

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  • Mehlhorn H, Frenkel JK (1980) Ultrastructural comparison of cysts and zoites of Toxoplasma gondii, Sarcocystis muris and Hammondia hammondi in skeletal muscle of mice. J Parasitol 66:59–67

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  1. Institut für Zoomorphologie, Zellbiologie und Parasitologie Universitätsstraße 1, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany

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Mehlhorn, H. (2015). Frenkel, Jakob Karl (1921–2013). In: Mehlhorn, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parasitology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27769-6_3888-1

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