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Yvonne Edna Cossart AO (14 August 1934 – 16 December 2014)[1] was an Australian virologist, who discovered the parvovirus B19 in 1975.[2]
Cossart graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science in 1957 and MBBS in 1959.[3]
She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 1998 Queen's Birthday Honours for "service to medicine as a specialist in infectious diseases, especially in the areas of virological research, epidemiology and disease prevention, and to education".[4]
Cossart died at Greenwich Hospital on 16 December 2014, aged 80.[5]
- Cossart, Yvonne E (1977), Virus hepatitis and its control, Baillière Tindall, ISBN 978-0-7020-0651-7
- Department of Infectious Diseases; Cossart, Yvonne E (1990), History and philosophy of medicine for medical students, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Sydney
- Cossart, Yvonne E; Pegler, Mollie; University of Sydney. Faculty of Medicine (1993), Doctor! Look behind you : a companion for medical students, History & Philosophy of Medicine Unit, University of Sydney
- Sefton, Ann Jervie; Cossart, Yvonne E; Freckelton, Louise; University of Sydney (2006), 150 years of the Faculty of Medicine, Sydney University Press, ISBN 978-1-920898-35-9
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