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DAS GUPTA, Biraj Mohan (Dasgupta) (1889 – 1945)

1889 – 1945

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1932 CE

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A study of monkey-malaria, and its experimental transmission to man.

Das Gupta and his supervisor Robert Knowles first described Plasmodium knowlesi as a distinct species, and as a potential cause of human malaria in 1932 when they described the morphology of the parasite in macaque bl…