Colwell R R
National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
Yale J Biol Med. 1999 Sep-Oct;72(5):349-56.
Despite severe and persistent criticism of her research, Alice Evans persevered in her pioneering work on the bacterial contamination of milk, identifying the organism that caused undulant fever and demonstrating that drinking unpasteurized cow's milk could transmit the disease, undulant fever, to humans. The opprobrium that Alice Evans endured was unrelenting, even after her election as the first President of the Society of American Bacteriologists, (now the American Society for Microbiology), but she remained undeterred, a true heroine of American microbiology and a magnificent public health worker.
尽管对她的研究存在严厉且持续的批评，艾丽斯·埃文斯仍坚持她在牛奶细菌污染方面的开创性工作，鉴定出了导致波状热的病原体，并证明饮用未经巴氏杀菌的牛奶会将波状热这种疾病传播给人类。艾丽斯·埃文斯所遭受的责难从未停止，即便在她当选为美国细菌学家协会（现为美国微生物学会）的首位会长之后也是如此，但她依然毫不退缩，是美国微生物学真正的女英雄和杰出的公共卫生工作者。
