Hideyo Noguchi's Last Stand: The Yellow Fever Commission in Accra,Africa (1927–8)

Inscription on the tombstone of Dr H Noguchi, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York, USA

Letter to S S Koide from Dr Torsten N Wiesel, 9 September 1997

Carter HR . Yellow Fever: An Epidemiological and Historical Study of its Place of Origin. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1931

Gorgas WC . The work of the sanitary department of Havana: with special reference to the repression of yellow fever. Med Rec 1901; 60: 361–4

Gorgas WC Carter HR Lyster TC . Yellow fever: its distribution and control in 1920. South Med J 1920; 13: 873–80

Noguchi H. Yellow fever research. 1918–1924, a summary. J Trop Med Hyg 1925; 28: 185–93

Grovas PP . Experimental transmission of yellow fever: cases occurring in Vera Cruz in 1920, together with the isolation of Leptospira icteroides. JAMA 1921; 76: 362–5

Labredo MC . Leptospiorilosis experimental un “strain” (Merida) de Noguchi. Rev Med drug Havana 1921; 26: 67–94

Remarks made by Dr Rufus Cole at a dinner in honour of Dr Noguchi to celebrate his receiving an honorary degree from the Sorbonne, held at the University Club, 15 January 1926 (document in the private collection of the author)

Reed W. The propagation of yellow fever, observations based on recent researches. Med Rec 1901; 60: 201–9

Reed W Carroll J Agramonte A. The etiology of yellow fever. An additional note. JAMA 1901; 36: 431–40

Stokes A Bauer JH Hudson NP . Experimental transmission of yellow fever to laboratory animals. Am J Trop Med. 1928; 8: 103–64

Fosdick RB . The challenge of yellow fever. In: The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952: 58–70

Letter to S S Koide from Evelyn B Tilden, 11 September 1976

Letter to E Tilden from Dr Hideyo Noguchi, 21 January 1928

History in the case of Dr Hideyo Noguchi who died of yellow fever at Accra, Gold Coast, 21 May 1928. Rockefeller Archive Center, Pocantico Hills, New York, USA

Flexner S. Hideyo Noguchi. Science 1929; 69: 653–60

Letters to S S Koide from Dr Cornelius B Philip, 13 November 1976; 23 November 1976; 10 February 1978

Postmortem report on Dr Hideyo Noguchi of the Rockefeller Institute. Rockefeller Archive Center, Pocantico Hills, New York, USA

Eulogy of Mr Fraser, memorial service for Dr Noguchi, Christiansberg Presbyterian Church, Accra, 22 May 1928 (document in the private collection of the author)