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