Indiana's Mazzini

Indiana's Mazzini (HM2FZQ)

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N 39° 46.464', W 86° 10.752'

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Louis Y. Mazzini

Serologist, researcher, humanitarian, he was given the name "Indiana's Mazzini" by Dr. Thurman B. Rice, Indiana State Board of Health Commissioner during World War II, for hid development of an inexpensive rapid sensitive and dependable slide test for the detection of early, latent, and congenital syphilis, and for the detection of false positive cases. Patent rights were donated to the Indiana University Foundation.

The Mazzini Test surpassed all others and won international honors. It was used by the Armed Forces, the U.S. Public Health Service, state boards of health, and laboratories throughout the world. The Mazzini optical ground glass slide of secondary importance, was copied in plastic in 1972.

Mazzini's cardiolipin microflocculation test, introduced in 1951 was widely used here and abroad. It was later modified and adopted by the U.S. Public Health Service as their official test, the V.D.R.L.

Dr. Mazzini joined Indiana University in 1924 and became a professor of serology and pathology. He was appointed Chief Serologist and Bacteriologist for the Indiana State Board of Health by Governor Paul V. McNutt.
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Date Added Friday, April 26th, 2019 at 11:01am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)16S E 570293 N 4403040
Decimal Degrees39.77440000, -86.17920000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 39° 46.464', W 86° 10.752'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds39° 46' 27.84" N, 86° 10' 45.12" W
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