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WHITMORE, Alfred (1876 – 1946)

1876 – 1946

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1912 CE

#5159

An account of the discovery of a hitherto undescribed infective disease occurring among the population of Rangoon.

First description of melioidosis. Together with C.S. Krishnaswami, Whitmore identified Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis (also known as "Whitmore's disease") in opium addicts in Rangoon in …