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Mary C. Pangborn
1 de November
Mary C. Pangborn, on November 1st, 1941, published her work on isolation and purification of an ox heart extract phospholipid, the antigen of the Wasserman test for syphilis used since 1922, which she identified as cardiolipin. This discovery was soon adopted worldwide as a practical test for syphilis. Dr. Pangborn was the senior author of the World Health Organization Report on Cardiolipin Antigens in 1951, revised in 1955 and the last of only three articles she published. However, all classics, for which she won many national (USA) and international awards.