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BONOMO, Giovanni Cosimo (1663 – 1696)

1663 – 1696

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1687 CE

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Osservazioni intorno a’ pellicelli del corpo umano.

First clinical and experimental proof of infection by a microparasite. Bonomo observed Sarcoptes scabiei, the scabies mite. This gave researchers grounds to think in terms of objective, exogenous pathogenic agents as …