Alexandre Yersin


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French bacteriologist born in Switzerland

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Yersinia pestis is named in honor of Alexandre Yersin, a student of Louis Pasteur, who isolated plague in patients in Hong Kong in 1894.
Using the flea as a weapon
Andrew Mendelson examines microbiologists Alexandre Yersin and Emile Roux.
Science and the City
Yersinia - named after French scientist Alexandre Yersin, who identified it over 100 years ago - causes bubonic plague, the killer disease transmitted by fleas living in the fur of rats.
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It was not until 1894 that Alexandre Yersin and Kitasato Shibasaburo, independently in Hong Kong isolated the bacterium responsible for the Third Bubonic Plague Pandemic.
Of Rats and Men: Poussin's Plague at Ashdod
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