Emil Pierre Marie van Ermengem ( fr. Émile Pierre Marie niederl. Van Ermengem ; August 15, 1851 , Leuven - 1932 ) - Belgian bacteriologist . Father of the writer Franz Ellens .
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He graduated from the Catholic University of Louvain ( 1875 ), then trained in Paris with Claude Bernard and Louis Antoine Ranvier , at the University of Berlin with Robert Koch . In 1885 , he studied the experience of Jaime Ferrand in the selection of cholera vaccine in Spain, and in 1886 published an article in the classic collection New Studies of the Cholera Pathogen.
In 1888 - 1919 He held the Department of Bacteriology at the University of Ghent . He became famous for conducting a thorough study of the case of mass poisoning with ham in 1895 , as a result of which he first isolated and described the bacterium Clostridium botulinum , which causes the disease botulism [3] . The research materials were published in the form of the article “Ueber einen neuen anaëroben Bacillus und seine Beziehungen zum Botulismus” in 1897 in the journal Zeitschrift für Hygiene und Infektionskrankheiten. He also published a textbook of microbiology ( 1887 ), and a number of other scientific works.
Since 1919 , Permanent Secretary of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium.
Notes
- ↑ Paris Medical Academy - 1820.
- ↑ UGentMemorialis
- ↑ Rebecca Maki. Origin of the name: Clostridium botulinum (English)
Literature
- Hervé Bazin. Vaccination - A History: From Lady Montagu to Genetic Engineering. - John Libbey Eurotext, 2011 .-- P. 484. (English)