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Paul Ehrlich ( German: [ˈpaʊl ˈʔeːɐ̯lɪç] ⓘ; 14 March 1854 – 20 August 1915) was a Nobel Prize -winning German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology, and antimicrobial chemotherapy. Among his foremost achievements were finding a cure for syphilis in 1909 and inventing the precursor technique to ...
He studied its toxin and its properties, and began in 1891 to develop an effective serum to treat the disease, following the demonstration, by Emil Adolf von Behring (1854–1917) and Kitasato Shibasaburō (1852–1931) that antibodies against the diphtheric toxin could be produced in animals.
In 1901 Emil von Behring received the first Nobel Prize in medicine for serum therapy against diphtheria, a disease that killed thousands of infants annually. Diphtheria serum was the first major cure of the bacteriological era & its development generated novel procedures for testing, standardizing, & regulating drugs.
Oct 1, 2020 · Emil Adolf Behring fue un bacteriólogo alemán nacido el 15 de marzo de 1854 en Hansdorf, Prusia Occidental. Falleció el 31 de marzo de 1917 en Marburg, Alemania. Fue uno de los 13 hijos (y el hijo mayor) de un maestro de escuela y su segunda esposa. Quería ingresar a la medicina y por eso intercambió diez años de servicio en el Cuerpo ...
Jul 1, 2008 · By 1901, Emil Behring (1854–1917) had already been awarded the first-ever Nobel Prize in medicine “for his work on serum therapy, especially its application against diphtheria.” 3 But this ...
These findings assumed great importance in 1890, when he met Emil von Behring, who had succeeded in creating an antitoxin against diphtheria. Behring had tried to prepare a serum that could be used in clinical practice, but it was only by adopting Ehrlich’s technique of using the blood of live horses that the preparation of a serum of optimum ...
Jan 1, 2006 · Emil von Behring: Infectious Disease, Immunology, Serum Therapy (review) January 2006. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 80 (4):778-780. DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2006.0144. Authors: Arthur M Silverstein ...
