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Kitasato Shibasaburo

Japanese physician and bacteriologist
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Also spelled:
Kitazato Shibasaburō
Born:
Jan. 29, 1853, Kitanosato, Higo province [now Kumamoto prefecture], Japan
Died:
June 13, 1931, Tokyo (aged 78)

Kitasato Shibasaburo (born Jan. 29, 1853, Kitanosato, Higo province [now Kumamoto prefecture], Japan—died June 13, 1931, Tokyo) was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist who helped discover a method to prevent tetanus and diphtheria and, in the same year as Alexandre Yersin, discovered the infectious agent responsible for the bubonic plague. Kitasato began his study of medicine at Igakusho Hospital (now Kumamoto Medical School). When his mentor, Dutch physician C.G. van Mansvelt, left the school, Kitasato entered Tokyo Medical School (now the Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo). After graduation (M.D., 1883) he carried out bacteriological research at the Central Sanitary ...(100 of 362 words)

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