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- Kitasato and Emil von Behring, working together in Berlin in 1890, announced the discovery of diphtheria antitoxin serum. Von Behring was awarded the 1901 Nobel Prize because of this work, but Kitasato was not.
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Feb 28, 2017 · With these words, Emil Behring (1854 to 1917) and Shibasaburo Kitasato (1853 to 1931) began their groundbreaking paper on diphtheria and tetanus immunity in experimental animals . The study demonstrated that sera from rabbits infected with Clostridium tetani conferred protection to naive mice against live tetanus bacilli and against tetanus toxin.
In 1885 Kitasato moved to Berlin to join the laboratory of German bacteriologist Robert Koch. There, with Emil von Behring, he studied tetanus and diphtheria, two bacterial infections that cause symptoms through the secretion of toxins.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Kitasato and Emil von Behring, working together in Berlin in 1890, announced the discovery of diphtheria antitoxin serum. Von Behring was awarded the 1901 Nobel Prize because of this work, but Kitasato was not.
Mar 27, 2024 · antitoxin. diphtheria antitoxin. Emil von Behring (born March 15, 1854, Hansdorf, West Prussia [now Ławice, Poland]—died March 31, 1917, Marburg, Germany) was a German bacteriologist who was one of the founders of immunology.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Apr 10, 2017 · Arguably, the three most important were: the paper he published in 1890 with Shibasaburo Kitasato on immunity to diphtheria and tetanus in experimental animals 1; his paper on immunity against...
- Stefan H. E. Kaufmann
- Kaufmann@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de
- 2017
In 1898, working with Koch's Japanese student Shibasaburo Kitasato, Behring showed that injections of serum from an animal with tetanus could confer immunity to the disease in other animals, and also that the same was true for diphtheria.
Dec 1, 2022 · Published: 2022-12-01. Emil von Behring researched treatments for the common childhood disease diphtheria in Germany in the 1890s and early 1900s. Diphtheria is a lethal disease that infected approximately 40,000 people in Germany between 1886 and 1888 with a general mortality rate of twenty-five percent.
