Nippon: Kitasato Shibasaburō: A Pioneer in the Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Disease
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Kitasato Shibasaburō
Baron Kitasato Shibasaburō was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer of the infectious agent of bubonic plague in Hong Kong during an outbreak in 1894, almost simultaneously with Alexandre Yersin.
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science · Japanese physician and bacteriologist (1853–1931) · professor · physician · bacteriologist · politician · immunologist · also Kitasato Shibasaburō, Shibasaburō Kitasato, Kitazato Shibasaburō, Shibasaburō Kitazato, Shibasaburō
Born 29 January 1853 · Died 13 June 1931 · Q442225
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1931· 1 entry
Died 1931-06-13.
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1914· 1 entry
Resigned in protest and founded the Kitasato Institute (the forerunner of Kitasato University), which he headed for the rest of his life
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1911· 1 entry
Kitasato found himself in Manchuria amidst one of their most severe pneumonic plagues studying its prevention, as he believed his purpose was to investigate the science behind public health and provide advancement in tha
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1909· 1 entry
Presented a paper on Tuberculosis in Europe
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1908· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1908).
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1894· 2 entries
Almost simultaneously with Alexandre Yersin
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At the request of the Japanese government during an outbreak of the bubonic plague, and identified a bacterium that he concluded was causing the disease
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1891· 1 entry
Founded the Institute for Study of Infectious Diseases with the assistance of Fukuzawa Yukichi
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1890· 1 entry
Announced the discovery of diphtheria antitoxin serum
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1889· 1 entry
Became the first person to grow the tetanus bacillus in pure culture, and in 1890 cooperated with Emil von Behring in developing a serum therapy for tetanus using this pure culture
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1853· 1 entry
Born 1853-01-29.
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