biography
| name: |
Kitazato, Shibasaburo
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1852–1931)
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| biography:
| Bacteriologist, born in Oguni, WC Japan. He studied in Berlin under Robert Koch, and later founded in Japan an Institute for Infectious Diseases. He discovered the bacillus of bubonic plague (1894), isolated the bacilli of symptomatic anthrax, dysentery, and tetanus, and prepared a diphtheria antitoxin. |
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