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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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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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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