2007/09/27 by Stanford T. Shulman, Herbert Friedmann, R. H. Sims · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Health Professions · Medicine · #Child and Adolescent Health #Family medicine #Medical History and Research #Medicine #Pediatric Infectious Disease #Pediatric health and respiratory diseases #Pediatrics
paper · doi:10.1086/521946
openalex publication_date 2007/09/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
The career of Theodor Escherich (1857-1911) qualifies him as the first pediatric infectious diseases physician. His landmark bacteriologic studies identified the common colon bacillus (now known as Escherichia coli), and he was very committed to pediatrics, serving as chairman of several prominent departments of pediatrics, including the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Vienna and St. Anna's Children's Hospital in Vienna, Austria, arguably Europe's most prestigious pediatric position.