1883 MALASSEZ, Louis Charles (1842 – 1909); VIGNAL, W.

Sur une forme de tuberculose sans bacilles.

Isolation of Pasteurella pseudotuberculosis.

GMN 2498 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3178

1894 YERSIN, Alexandre Émile Jean (1863 – 1943)

La peste bubonique à Hong-Kong.

Yersin discovered the plague bacillus Pasteurella (Yersinia) pestis, isolating it from excised buboes. He published the first account of this organism. Preliminary note in C. R. Acad. Sci. (Paris), 1894, 119, 356.

GMN 5125 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6113

1912 MCCOY, George Walter (1876 – 1952); CHAPIN, Charles Willard (1877 – )

Further observations on a plague-like disease of rodents with a preliminary note on the causative agent, Bacterium tularense.

Isolation of Pasteurella tularensis, causal organism in tularemia.

GMN 5174 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6273

1914 WHERRY, William Buchanan (1875 – 1936); LAMB, Benjamin Harrison (1889 – 1955)

Infection of man with Bacterium tularense

Wherry and Lamb were first to isolate P. tularensis from lesions in man.

GMN 5175 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6279