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Date1884
AuthorFinkler
ContributionWith Prior, reported the presence of comma shaped bacteria in feces of patients with diarrhea (not cholera).
ReferenceAnon.
NotesIn response, Koch acknowledged that the cholera germ was not the only one of that shape, and demonstrated ways of distinguishing them in culture. Not in Lechevalier, or Garrison.
CategoryCausation
Pathogen ClassBacteria

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