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Argentine physician and epidemiologist

Julio Isidro Maiztegui (August 25, 1931 – August 29, 1993) was an Argentine physician and epidemiologist.

Life and work

Maiztegui was born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina, in 1931. He received a medical degree from the University of Buenos Aires, in 1957, and the following year, began his residency at the Boston University Hospital.

He specialized in the treatment of infectious disease and in 1964, received a master's degree in Public Health at Harvard. He entered the Clinical Research and Medical Education Center (CEMIC) in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1965 and went on to receive a Master of Epidemiology from the University of London, in 1969.^[1]

Returning to Argentina, he began research on Argentine hemorrhagic fever, a condition known among the country's rural population as the mal de los rastrojos ("the sickness of the corn straw").^[1] Transmitted mainly by mice dwelling in fallow c