An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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ROST, Ernest Reinhold

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The cultivation of the Bacillus leprae.

Indian med. Gaz., 39, 167-69, 1904.

Rost cultivated the leprosy bacillus, and he prepared leprolin, formerly used in treating leprosy.



Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › BACTERIA (mostly pathogenic; sometimes indexed only to genus) › Gram-Positive Bacteria › Mycobacterium , COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › India, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Leprosy