1898 ROUX, Pierre Paul Émile (1853 – 1933); NOCARD, Edmond Isidore Etienne (1850 – 1903)

Le microbe de la péripneumonie.

Discovery of the causal organism of bovine pleuropneumonia, also known as lung plague. Nocard and Roux considered it a filterable virus but now known to be a mycoplasma.

GMN 3182 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4195

1937 DIENES, Louis L. (1886 – 1974); EDSALL, Geoffrey (1908 – 1980)

Observations on L-organism of Kleineberger.

Isolation of a mycoplasma from man.

GMN 3215 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4360

1962 CHANOCK, Robert Merritt (1904 – 2010); HAYFLICK, Leonard (1928 – 2024)

Growth on artificial medium of an agent associated with atypical pneumonia and its identification as a PPLO.

Using a novel agar and fluid medium formulation he had devised, Hayflick isolated a unique mycoplasma Mycoplasma pneumoniae, a mycoplasma shown to be the cause of some cases of primary atypical pneumonia, or "walking …

GMN 3215.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4377