Louis Westenra Sambon
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Louis Westenra Sambon
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Louis Westenra Sambon was an Italian-English physician who played important roles in understanding the causes (etiology) of diseases. He described many pathogenic protozoans, insects, and helminths including the name Schistosoma mansoni for a blood fluke. He was an authority on the classification of parasitic tongue worms called Pentastomida (Linguatulida), and one of the genus Sambonia is named after him. Sambon was born in Milan, Italy, and obtained an M.D. from the University of Naples Federi
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Italian-English physician
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2023-06-06T11:13:04Z
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