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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

Durban, South Africa

1 entries published in this place. (Durban, ZA)

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1895

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Preliminary report on the tsetse fly disease or nagana, in Zululand.

BRUCE, Sir David (1855 – 1931)
BRUCE, Sir David (1855 – 1931)

In 1895 Bruce found that nagana, the tsetse fly disease of Zululand, was due to a trypanosome (T. brucei). He described a hematozoon in the blood of the affected animals that had not been previously described. Digital…