Derrick Baxby

Derrick Baxby (1940 – 24 March 2017) was a British microbiologist and authority on Orthopoxviruses.[1][2] He was a senior lecturer in medical microbiology at the University of Liverpool.[3]

He proposed that a presumed horsepox virus could be the long-sought ancestor of vaccinia.[4] In 1977, he reported 12 cases of cowpox occurring in England between 1965 and 1976.[4]

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  2. ^ "Derrick Baxby". St Helens Star. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
  3. ^ "Notes on Contributors". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. XXXIV (2): 242. 1 October 1979. doi:10.1093/jhmas/XXXIV.2.242.
  4. ^ a b Esparza, José; Schrick, Livia; Damaso, Clarissa R.; Nitsche, Andreas (19 December 2017). "Equination (inoculation of horsepox): An early alternative to vaccination (inoculation of cowpox) and the potential role of horsepox virus in the origin of the smallpox vaccine". Vaccine. 35 (52): 7222–7230. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.11.003. ISSN 1873-2518. PMID 29137821.