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Sir David Bruce
Australian physician and bacteriologist who described the bacterium that causes undulant fever or brucellosis (1855-1931)
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Paul Ehrlich
German bacteriologist who found a `magic bullet' to cure syphilis and was a pioneer in the study of immunology (1854-1915)
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Sir Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin (1881-1955)
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Hans C. J. Gram
Danish physician and bacteriologist who developed a method of staining bacteria to distinguish among them (1853-1938)
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Robert Koch
German bacteriologist who isolated the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843-1910)
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Ilya Ilich Metchnikov
Russian bacteriologist in France who formulated the theory of phagocytosis (1845-1916)
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Hideyo Noguchi
United States bacteriologist (born in Japan) who discovered the cause of yellow fever and syphilis (1876-1928)
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Hans Conrad Julius Reiter
German bacteriologist who described a disease now known as Reiter's syndrome and who identified the spirochete that causes syphilis in humans (1881-1969)
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August von Wassermann
German bacteriologist who developed a diagnostic test for syphilis (1866-1925)
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Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin
French bacteriologist born in Switzerland; was a student of Pasteur; discovered the plague bacillus (1863-1943)
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Hans Zinsser
United States bacteriologist who helped develop immunization against typhus fever (1878-1940)
