YERSIN, Alexandre Émile Jean (1863 – 1943)
1863 – 1943
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1888 CE–1889 CE
#5059
Contribution a l’étude de la diphtérie.
Confirmation of the work of Loeffler and demonstration of the exotoxin. This work is the starting point of the development of an immunizing serum.
1894 CE
#5125
La peste bubonique à Hong-Kong.
Yersin discovered the plague bacillus Pasteurella (Yersinia) pestis, isolating it from excised buboes. He published the first account of this organism. Preliminary note in C. R. Acad. Sci. (Paris), 1894, 119, 356.
1895 CE
#5127
La peste bubonique. By Alexandre Yersin with L.C.A. Calmette and A. Borrel.
Successful inoculation of animals with anti-plague vaccine.