Yersinia pestis: Perbedaan antara revisi

''Y. pestis'' was discovered in 1894 by [[Alexandre Yersin]], a Swiss/French [[physician]] and [[bacteriologist]] from the [[Pasteur Institute]], during an epidemic of the plague in [[Hong Kong]].<ref name="Bockemühl_1994">{{cite journal|author=Bockemühl J |title=100 years after the discovery of the plague-causing agent&nbsp;– importance and veneration of Alexandre Yersin in Vietnam today |journal=Immun Infekt |volume=22 |issue=#2 |pages=72–75 |year=1994 |pmid = 7959865}}</ref> Yersin was a member of the [[Louis Pasteur|Pasteur]] school of thought. [[Kitasato Shibasaburō]], a Japanese bacteriologist who practised [[Robert Koch|Koch's methodology]], was also engaged at the time in finding the causative agent of the plague.<ref name="Ho">{{cite journal |author=Howard-Jones N |title=Was Kitasato Shibasaburō the discoverer of the plague bacillus? | journal=Perspect Biol Med |volume=16 |issue=#2 |pages=292–307 |year=1973 |pmid = 4570035|doi=10.1353/pbm.1973.0034 |s2cid=31767623 }}</ref> However, Yersin actually linked plague with ''Y. pestis''. Formerly named ''Pasteurella pestis'', the organism was renamed ''Yersinia pestis'' in 1944.

 

 

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