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Name: August von Wassermann
Birth Date: 1866
Death Date: 1925
Nationality: German
Gender: Male
Occupations: bacteriologist

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August von Wassermann discovered a blood serum test that enabled doctors to find out if a patient had syphilis, a potentially lethal disease which, in some patients, has a very long latency period during which no symptoms are detectable. Wassermann was...
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Biography of August Paul von Wasserman
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August Paul von Wasserman was a German physician and bacteriologist. He is most noteworthy in the history of microbiology for his invention of the first test for the sexually transmitted disease of syphilis. The test is known as the Wasserman test....


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1866-1925 German physician who made major contributions to immunology and in 1906 developed the test for syphilis that bears his name. The "Wassermann reaction" is a specific and sensitive test for infection by the microbe that causes...
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August Paul von Wassermann (21 February 1866 - 16 March 1925) was a German bacteriologist. Born in Bamberg, he studied at several universities throughout Germany, and in 1890 began to work under Robert Koch at the Institute for Infectious Diseases at...


 

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