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Main Bacterial Diseases and their Discoverers

Year

Disease

Organism

Discoverer

1869

Relapsing fever

Borrelia recurrentis

O. Obermeir

1873

Leprosy

Mycobacterium leprae

Hansen, G.A.

1877

Anthrax

Bacillus anthracis

Koch, R.

1878

Suppuration

Staphylococcus

Koch, R.

1879

Gonorrhoea

Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Neisser, A.L.S.

1880

Typhoid fever

Salmonella typhi

Eberth, C.J.

1881

Suppuration

Streptococcus

Ogston, A.

1882

Tuberculosis

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Koch, R.

1883

Cholera

Vibrio cholerae

Koch, R.

1883

Diphtheria

Corynebacterium diphtheriae

Klebs, T.A.E.

1884

Tetanus

Clostridium tetani

Nicolaier, A.

1885

Diarrhoea

Escherichia coli

Escherich, T.

1886

Pneumonia

Streptococcus pneumoniae

Fraenkel, A.

1887

Meningitis

Neisseria meningitidis

Weichselbaum, A.

1888

Food poisoning

Salmonella enteritidis

Gaertner, A.A.H.

1892

Gas gangrene

Clostridium perfringens

Welch, W.H.

1894

Plague

Yersinia pestis

Kitasato, S., Yersin, A.J.E.

1896

Botulism

Clostridium botulinum

van Ermengem, E.M.P.

1898

Dysentery

Shigella dysenteriae

Shiga, K.

1900

Paratyphoid

Salmonella paratyphi

Schottmuller, H.

1903

Syphilis

Treponema pallidum

Schaudinn, F.R., and Hoffman, E.

1906

Whooping cough

Bordetella pertussis

Bordet, J., and Gengou, O.

1939

Q-fever

Coxiella burneti

F. Burnet


 

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