biography
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Twort, Frederick William
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| male
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| lived:
| (1877–1950)
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| biography:
| Bacteriologist, born in Camberley, Surrey, SE England, UK. He studied medicine in London, and became professor of bacteriology there in 1919. He studied Johne's disease, a disease of cattle and sheep caused by an organism similar to the tuberculosis myco-bacteria, and methods of culture of acid-fast organisms. In 1915 he discovered the bacteriophage, a virus that attacks certain bacteria. |
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