biography
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| lived:
| (1859–1934)
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| biography:
| Microbiologist and immunologist, born in Albany, New York, USA. He studied at Cornell, and came to be associated with several US institutions, including Harvard (professor, 1896–1915) and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1915–29). He first implicated an insect vector in the spread of disease when he showed that Texas cattle fever is spread by ticks. He worked on human and bovine tuberculosis, laid the scientific foundations for a cholera vaccine, improved the production of smallpox vaccine, diphtheria and tetanus antitoxins, and established precise techniques for the bacteriological examination of water, milk, and sewage. |
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