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ROBERTSON, Andrew

ROBERTSON, Andrew

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1924 CE

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Observations on the causal organism of rat-bite fever in man.

Robertson proved one of the causal organisms of rat-bite fever to be Sp. morsus muris. He re-named it Spirillum minus Carter, 1887, identifying it as the first spiral micro-organism to be described from a rodent.