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Brouria Feldman-Muhsam (18 December 1916 – 2008) was an Israeli medical entomologist and parasitologist known for her pioneering work with mites and ticks.Шаблон:Citation needed After earning her Teaching Certificate at Levinsky College of Education in Tel-Aviv in 1935, Feldman-Muhsam enrolled in the University of Geneva in Switzerland and completed her licence ès sciences in biology there in 1937, qualifying her for doctoral studies.[1] She returned to Mandate Palestine in 1937 and earned her Doctor of Philosophy degree in Medical Entomology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, graduating in 1942.[1]

Career

After completing her Ph.D., Feldman-Muhsam worked as a research associate in the cancer research laboratory of the Hebrew University Medical School from 1942 to 1944.Шаблон:Citation needed In 1944 she became a research associate in the Department of Parasitology at Hebrew University Medical School, and from 1961 to 1969 she was a senior lecturer there.<Шаблон:Citation needed In 1968 she was appointed an associate professor and named head of the Department of Medical Entomology of Hebrew University of Jerusalem,[1] and was promoted to full professor in 1976.[2]

During her career, Feldman-Muhsam contributed over 100 articles to scientific journals including the Journal of Parasitology, Science, Nature, and other refereed journals, and photographed and produced science films on tick copulation and the movement of sperm in ticks.Шаблон:Citation needed She is perhaps best known for her research on the physiology and ecology of ticks, particularly in defining the function of the areae porosae,[3] and delineating the processes of tick copulation and reproduction.[4] Her lifelong acarological collection is preserved in the Medical Parasitology Collection of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[5]

Personal life and death

Brouria Feldman was born on 18 December 1916 in Jerusalem, a daughter of Uria and Hanna (née Weinshenker) Feldman.Шаблон:Citation needed She married in 1937 Helmut V. Muhsam, whom she met at the University of Geneva. Following his graduation with a doctorate in physics in 1937, they moved to Israel where he was on the faculty of Hebrew University.[6]

Feldman-Muhsam died in Jerusalem in 2008.[7][8]

Honors

Feldman-Muhsam was selected the Helen Marr Kirbey Fellow of the International Association of University Women, in 1944; recipient of the Henrietta Szold prize, Municipality of Tel-Aviv, in 1955; recipient of a research grant awarded by the United States Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, in 1955; election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine; and election to be president of the Israel Society of Parasitology 1983–1988.[9][10][11][12]

Acari described by Feldman-Muhsam

Feldman-Muhsam was the first to describe following species of Acari.

  • Haemaphysalis adleri Feldman-Muhsam, 1951[13]
  • Haemaphysalis erinacei Feldman-Muhsam, 1951, currently a synonym of Haemaphysalis erinacei Pavesi, 1884[13][14]
  • Rhipicephalus gertrudae Feldman-Muhsam, 1960[15]
  • Rhipicephalus secundus Feldman-Muhsam, 1952, currently a synonym of Rhipicephalus turanicus Pomerantsev, 1936[16]
  • Podapolipus coccinellae Feldman-Muhsam and Havivi, 1972[17]
  • Podapolipus peruvensis Feldman-Muhsam and Havivi, 1974[18]
  • Podapolipus tribolii Feldman-Muhsam and Havivi, 1972[17]
  • Adlerocystis ornithodori Feldman-Muhsam and Havivi, 1963[19]
  • Adlerocystis parkeri Feldman-Muhsam and Havivi, 1963[19]
  • Nuttallia adleri Feldman-Muhsam, 1962, currently a synonym of Babesia merionis (Rousselot, 1953)[20]

Acari named in her honor

  • Haemaphysalis muhsamae Santos Dias, 1954[21]
  • Rhipicephalus muhsamae Morel & Vassiliades, 1965[22][23]
  • Eutrombidium feldmanmuhsamae Feider, 1977[24]
  • Kurosapolipus feldmanmuhsamae Husband and Li, 1993[25]

References

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  3. George Anastos, Thomas S. Kaufman, and Sampurno Kadarsan. 1973. An Unusual Reproductive Process in Ixodes kopsteini (Acarina: Ixodidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 66(2):483-484. "The function of the areae porosae was unknown until Feldman-Muhsam (1963) demonstrated that they are outlets of the accessory glands of Gene’s organ. FeIdman-Muhsam and Havivi (1960) stated that the accessory glands apparently contribute to the secretions of Gene’s organ which serve to coat and to protect the eggs in the external environment."
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  5. D. Golani and M.N. Ben-Eliahu: Haasiana, Newsletter of the Biological Collections of the Hebrew University, No. 2, March, 2004, Jerusalem, Israel, http://nnhc.huji.ac.il/wp-content/uploads/hasiana/Haasiana%202%202004.pdf, retrieved 11 Jul 2018, retrieved 8 Jul 2018.
  6. Guide to the Papers of the Muehsam Family, 1828-1999, AR 25021 / MF 736, processed by Dianne Ritchey and Stanislav Pejša. Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, New York, NY, USA, http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=121494, retrieved 30 Jun 2018.
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  12. "Jewish Girls from Poland and Palestine Win Research Fellowships in Washington", Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Washington (May 28, 1944); "Miss Browria Feldman-Muhsam of Jerusalem [was one of three] recipients of international research fellowships for 1944-45 awarded here during the week-end by the American section of the International Federation of University Women. … Miss Feldman-Muhsam, who is 28 years old, received a $1,500 fellowship raised by the Texas State Division of the American Association of University Women. She has published a series of important researches on the Levant house fly. She has studied in Geneva, Switzerland, as well as the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where she will make additional experiments."
  13. 13,0 13,1 Feldman-Muhsam, B. 1951. A note on East Mediterranean species of the genus Haemaphysalis. Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel, 1:96-107. "H. adleri has been found only in Israel and was first found on golden jackals [Canis aureus (Carnivora: Canidae)] and described as a new species of tick (Feldman-Muhsam, 1951)."
  14. Feldman-Muhsam, B. 1953. On the identity of Haemaphysalis erinacei, and H. taurica. Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel. 2: 372-378 (gives priority to Pavesi).
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  20. Feldman-Muhsam, B. 1962. On Nuttallia adleri of Meriones tristrami. Sonderdruck aus den Verhandlungen des XI. Internationaler Kongress für Entomologie, Wien, 1960, Bd. III:91-94.
  21. Santos Dias, J. A. T. (1954). Mais uma nova espécies de carraça do género Haemaphysalis C. L. Koch, 1885, para a fauna de Moçambique. Memórias e Estudos do Museu Zoológico da Universidade de Coimbra, 225:1–9.
  22. Morel, P.C., Vassiliades, G., 1965. Description de Rhipicephalus muhsamae n. sp. de l'Ouest Africain (groupe de Rh. simus; acariens: Ixodoidea). Revue d'élevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, Tome XVII (nouvelle série) (4):619-636. "Le nom de la nouvelle espèce a été choisi en hommage à M'me B. Feldman-Muhsam, pour l’importance de ses travaux sur l’utilisation du gonopore des femelles dans la systématique des Hyalomma et Rhipicephalus, et pour l’aide apportée au début de nos études sur ce dernier genre."
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  24. Z. Feider. 1977. Contribution à la Connaissance des Larves D'acariens du Bassin Oriental de la Mediterranee. Israel Journal of Zoology, 26(1-2): 100-113. - "The author describes two new species, Eutrombidium feldmanmuhsamae n.sp. and Allothrombium chanaanense n. sp., from their larval forms. They differ from the other larval species of the same genera in scutal and scutellal morphology, in aspect and number of body setae and in leg setae tabulation."
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