David Bruce (microbiologist)
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David Bruce (microbiologist)
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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. Working in the Army Medical Services and the Royal Army Medical Corps, Bruce's major scientific collaborator was his microbiologist wife Mary Elizabeth Bru
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Scottish pathologist (1855–1931)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bruce_(microbiologist)
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2005-07-18T10:00:53Z
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2024-09-12T15:55:03Z
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