Details

Date1868
AuthorObermeier
ContributionDiscovered spirochaete of relapsing fever.
ReferenceAnon.
NotesAlso called recurrent fever. Tick-borne Borrelia. Note that Garrison gives1873, whereas Ackerman gives1868. Lechevalier and Solotorovsky also give 1873, and say that Otto Obermeier saw thread-like structures in blood during relapsing fever bouts but not between bouts. Probably had significant impact; see LS p. 68.
CategoryCausation
Pathogen ClassBacteria

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