biography
| name: |
Löffler, Friedrich August Johannes
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pronunciation:
[loefler]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1852–1915)
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| biography:
| Bacteriologist, born in Frankfurt an der Oder, E Germany. He studied medicine at Würzburg, started as a military surgeon, became professor at Greifswald (1888), and from 1913 was director of the Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases in Berlin. He first cultured the diphtheria bacillus (1884), discovered the causal organism of glanders and swine erysipelas (1886), isolated an organism causing food poisoning, and prepared a vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease (1899). |
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