Rebecca Craighill Lancefield

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Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, NY, United States 
Area:
Streptococci
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http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=1000&page=226
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1895-1981.
http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/20000852.html
Developed system for serotyping streptococci known as Lancefield groups. Served as President of the Society of American Bacteriologists.

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Hans Zinsser grad student 1918-1925 Columbia (ID Tree)
 (The immunological relationships of Streptococcus viridans and certain of its chemical fractions)
Homer Swift grad student 1920-1925 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (ID Tree)
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Tai JY, Gotschlich EC, Lancefield RC. (1979) Isolation of type-specific polysaccharide antigen from group B type Ib streptococci. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 149: 58-66
Lancefield RC, McCarty M, Everly WN. (1975) Multiple mouse-protective antibodies directed against group B streptococci. Special reference to antibodies effective against protein antigens. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 142: 165-79
Rotta J, Krause RM, Lancefield RC, et al. (1971) New approaches for the laboratory recognition of M types of group A streptococci. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 134: 1298-315
Lancefield RC, Freimer EH. (1966) Type-specific polysaccharide antigens of group B streptococci. The Journal of Hygiene. 64: 191-203
LANCEFIELD RC. (1962) Current knowledge of type-specific M antigens of group A streptococci. Journal of Immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 89: 307-13
HOOK EW, WAGNER RR, LANCEFIELD RC. (1960) An epizootic in Swiss mice caused by a group A Streptococcus, newly designated type 50. American Journal of Hygiene. 72: 111-9
LANCEFIELD RC. (1959) Persistence of type-specific antibodies in man following infection with group A streptococci. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 110: 271-92
LANCEFIELD RC. (1958) Occurrence of R antigen specific for Group A type 3 streptococci. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 108: 329-41
LANCEFIELD RC. (1957) 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. 106: 525-44
McCARTY M, LANCEFIELD RC. (1955) Variation in the group-specific carbohydrate of group A streptococci. I. Immunochemical studies on the carbohydrates of variant strains. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 102: 11-28
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