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David Bruce
Major-General Sir David Bruce, was a Scottish pathologist and microbiologist who made some of the key contributions in tropical medicine. In 1887, he discovered a bacterium, now called Brucella, that caused what was known as Malta fever. In 1894, he discovered a protozoan parasite, named Trypanosoma brucei, as the causative pathogen of nagana.
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Born 29 May 1855 · Died 27 November 1931 · Q544284
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2026· 7 entries
247Sports: Guest: David Bruce - Sheffield Wednesday CEO
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247Sports: David Bruce on Why Yorkshire Derby Is So Special
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Yorkshire Post: David Bruce on the Sheffield Wednesday rebirth: I want them to say this is my home
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Dothan Police Department: David Bruce Snellgrove
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Legacy obituary: David Bruce Reeves Obituary (2026) - Boulder City, NV - Star Mortuary & Crematory - Boulder City
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Yorkshire Post: CEO David Bruce: Sheffield Wednesday want to make Hillsborough work, but could leave if not
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2005· 1 entry
Revealed that Themistocles Zammit, one of the members of the commission, was the one who experimentally demonstrated the origin of the bacterium from goat milk
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1931· 1 entry
Died 1931-11-27.
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1923· 2 entries
Won Albert Medal (1923).
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Won Manson Medal (1923).
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1922· 1 entry
Won Buchanan Medal (1922).
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1915· 3 entries
Won Leeuwenhoek Medal (1915).
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Won Croonian Medal and Lecture (1915).
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Created a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1905 Birthday Honours, knighted in 1908 and upgraded to a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1918
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1914· 1 entry
Became Commander of the Royal Army Medical College at Millbank, London, the position he held until his retirement as a Major-General in 1919
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1905· 1 entry
Goat milk was established as the source of infection
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1904· 2 entries
Won Royal Medal (1904).
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The Mary Kingsley Medal in 1905, and the Stewart Prize of the British Medical Association
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1902· 1 entry
Was entrusted to Bruce, assisted by David Nunes Nabarro from the University College Hospital
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1900· 1 entry
Joined the army commission investigating dysentery in military camps, at the same time working for the Royal Society's Sleeping Sickness Commission
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1899· 3 entries
Accompanied by his wife, he ran the field hospital during the Siege of Ladysmith (2 November 1899 until 28 February 1900)
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Bruce was awarded the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh
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As Trypanosoma brucei, the name after the discoverer
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1894· 3 entries
And was posted to Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
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And his wife found that the disease was prevalent among cattle, donkeys, horses, and dogs
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Discovered a protozoan parasite, named Trypanosoma brucei, as the causative pathogen of nagana (animal trypanosomiasis)
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1887· 2 entries
With the conclusion:I think it will appear to be sufficiently proved: (a) that there exists in the spleen of cases of Malta fever a definite micro-organism; and (b) that this micro-organism can be cultivated outside the
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Discovered a bacterium, now called Brucella, that caused what was known as Malta fever
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1886· 2 entries
Was chairman of the Malta Fever Commission that investigated the deadly disease, by which he identified a specific bacterium as the cause
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Bruce led the Malta Fever Commission that investigated the epidemic
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1883· 1 entry
And joined the Army Medical Services (in which he served until 1919)
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1855· 1 entry
Born 1855-05-29.
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