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Kitasato Shibasaburō

Baron Kitasato Shibasaburō (北里 柴三郎, January 29 [O.S. 17 January] , 1853 – June 13, 1931) [1] was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer of the infectious agent of bubonic plague in Hong Kong during an outbreak in 1894, almost simultaneously with Alexandre Yersin.

In this Japanese name, the surname is Kitasato.

Baron
Kitasato Shibasaburō

(1853-01-29)January 29, 1853

Oguni, Kumamoto, Tokugawa Shogunate

June 13, 1931(1931-06-13) (aged 78)

Tokyo, Empire of Japan

Japanese

Co-discoverer of Bubonic plague in Hong Kong

Bacteriology

Tokyo Imperial University

Kitasato was nominated for the first annual Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901.[2] Kitasato and Emil von Behring, working together in Berlin in 1890, announced the discovery of diphtheria antitoxin serum. Von Behring was awarded the 1901 Nobel Prize because of this work, but Kitasato was not.

laboratory glassware named in his honor

Kitasato flask

, an Actinobacteria genus named after Kitasato Shibasaburō

Kitasatospora

Satoshi Ōmura

Kantha, S. S. (March 1991). . The Keio Journal of Medicine. 40 (1): 35–39. doi:10.2302/kjm.40.35. ISSN 0022-9717. PMID 2046211.

"A centennial review; the 1890 tetanus antitoxin paper of von Behring and Kitasato and the related developments"

Kantha, S. S. (September 1992). . Immunology Today. 13 (9): 374. doi:10.1016/0167-5699(92)90177-9. ISSN 0167-5699. PMID 1466755.

"The legacy of von Behring and Kitasato"

Shampo, M. A.; Kyle, R. A. (February 1999). . Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 74 (2): 146. doi:10.4065/74.2.146. ISSN 0025-6196. PMID 10069351.

"Shibasaburo Kitasato--Japanese bacteriologist"

Orent, Wendy (2004). Plague : the mysterious past and terrifying future of the world's most dangerous disease. New York: Free Press.  0-7432-3685-8.

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Porter, Roy (June 2004). Blood and guts : a short history of medicine (Reprint ed.). New York: W. W. Norton & Company.  0-393-32569-5.

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Kitasato University homepage

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