| Date | 1885 |
| Author | Bunn |
| Contribution | Reported that cultures of Neisser's gonococcus cause gonorrhea. |
| Reference | Foster |
| Notes | More fully, von Bunn. He isolated Neisser's gonococcus in pure culture, and infected a woman experimentally. Knowledge of gonorrhea was advanced byhis bookon the subject. The agent was later named Neisseria gonorrhoeae. See 1879, 1891. |
| Category | Causation |
| Pathogen Class | Bacteria |
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