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Date1844
AuthorBassi
ContributionUsed calcium chloride as an area disinfectant to control muscardine (fungus) in silkworms.
ReferenceLechevalier
NotesAgostino Bassi also suggested that diseases such as plague and syphilis are caused by germs.
CategoryCausation
Pathogen ClassFungi

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