Born 29 May 1855; died 27 Nov 1931 at age 76.
#English #bacteriologist and #military #physician who traced (1886-87) the #Malta-fever to a #bacterium later (1920) named for him, #Brucella melitensis.
Malta-fever is also the undulant fever that causes #abortion in #goats. It is usually #transmitted by goat's #milk.
He also investigated (1894) the #trypanosomes which caused #nagana, a disease of #horses and #cattle in northern Zululand, Africa, and found (1895-97) it to be transmitted by the #tsetse fly. He thought the local wild game was the trypanosomal #reservior. This work led to his further #research which identified the tsetse fly as the #vector in #SleepingSickness.
He was knighted in 1908, and won the #LeeuwenhoekMedal in 1915.
He also researched #tetanus and #TrenchFever.
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