biography
| name: |
Bassi, Agostino Maria
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pronunciation:
[basee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1773–1856)
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| biography:
| Biologist and pioneer bacteriologist, born in Lodi, N Italy. He studied at Pavia, and his work on animal diseases partly anticipated that of Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch. As early as 1835 he showed that a disease of silkworms (muscardine) was fungal in origin and contagious, and proposed that many other diseases are transmitted by micro-organisms. |
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