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Other International Scientists and Their Accomplishments during the Classical Golden Age of Microbiology Flashcards

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Otto Obermeier

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Observed bacterial cells in relapsing fever patients

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Ferdinand Cohn

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Established bacteriology as a science; produced the

first bacterial taxonomy scheme

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Gerhard Hansen

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Observed bacterial cells in leprosy patients

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Albert Neisser

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Discovered the bacterium that causes gonorrhea

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Charles Laveran

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Discovered that malaria is caused by a protozoan

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Hans Christian Gram

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Introduced staining system to identify bacterial cells

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Elie Metchnikoff

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Described phagocytosis

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Emile Roux and Alexandre Yersin

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Identified the diphtheria toxin

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Friedrich Löeffler

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Isolated the diphtheria bacillus

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Georg Gaffky

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Cultivated the typhoid bacillus

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Paul Ehrlich

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Suggested some dyes might control bacterial infections

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Shibasaburo Kitasato

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Isolated the tetanus bacillus

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Emil von Behring

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Developed the diphtheria antitoxin

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Theodore Escherich

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Described the bacterium responsible for infant

diarrhea

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Daniel E. Salmon

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Developed the first heat-killed vaccine

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Richard Pfeiffer

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Identified a bacterial cause of meningitis

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William Welch and George Nuttall

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Isolated the gas gangrene bacillus

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Theobald Smith and F. Kilbourne

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Proved that ticks transmit Texas cattle fever

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S. Kitasato and A. Yersin

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Independently discovered the bacterium causing plague

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Emile van Ermengem

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Identified the bacterium causing botulism

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Ronald Ross

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Showed mosquitoes transmit malaria to birds

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Kiyoshi Shiga

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Isolated a cause of bacterial dysentery

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Walter Reed

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Studied mosquito transmission of yellow fever

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David Bruce

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Proved that tsetse flies transmit sleeping sickness

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Fritz Schaudinn and Erich Hoffman

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Discovered the bacterium responsible for syphilis

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Jules Bordet and Octave Gengou

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Cultivated the pertussis bacillus

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Albert Calmette and Camille Guèrin

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Developed immunization process for tuberculosis

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Howard Ricketts

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Proved that ticks transmit Rocky Mountain spotted

feve

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Charles Nicolle

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Proved that lice transmit typhus fever

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George McCoy and Charles Chapin

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Discovered the bacterial cause of tularemia

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