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  Shibasaburo Kitasato - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shibasaburo Kitasato (北里 柴三郎 Kitasato Shibasaburō; January 29, 1853-June 13, 1931) was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist.
He is remembered as the co-discoverer of the infectious agent of bubonic plague in Hong Kong in 1894, simultaneously with Alexandre Yersin.
When this was incorporated into Tokyo (ex-Imperial) University in 1914, he resigned and founded the Kitasato Institute, which he headed for the rest of his life.
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Shibasaburo Kitasato was born in Oguni, Kyushu, Japan and was noted as a well known Japanese bacteriologist whose most significant contributions to the field of bacteriology dealt with tetanus and diphtheria.
Kitasato was one of the first to discover the bacteria responsible for tetanus - tetanus bacillus (Clostridium tetani) and the bacteria responsible for bubonic plague.
During the course of his professional life, Kitasato was appointed the director of the Institute for Infectious Diseases in 1892 and also in that same year the laboratory which he had founded was incorporated as the Imperial Japanese Institute for the Study of Infectious Diseases and later merged with the University of Tokyo.
www.upei.ca /~xliu/multi-culture/kitasato.htm   (412 words)

  
 SHIBASABURO KITASATO
Kitasato was born on December 20, 1856 into a humble family in a mountain village called Ogunigo in Kiusiu, southern Japan.
Kitasato was not only a hard-working scientist, he was extremely devoted in his affections toward his parents and his teachers.
Kitasato was certainly a human treasure whom we all are proud to venerate.
www.mhhe.com /biosci/cellmicro/nester/graphics/nester3ehp/common/kitasato.html   (1086 words)

  
 Shibasaburo Kitasato -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Shibasaburo Kitasato (北里 柴三郎) (1852-1931) was a (A native or inhabitant of Japan) Japanese (A licensed medical practitioner) physician and (A biologist who studies bacteria) bacteriologist.
Initially the (Aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil) bacillus was called Pasteurella pestis it is now called (A Bacillus bacteria that causes plague; aerosolized bacteria can be used as a bioweapon) Yersinia pestis.
When this was incorporated into (The capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and cultural center of Japan) Tokyo (ex-Imperial) University in 1914, he resigned and founded the Kitasato Institute, which he headed for the rest of his life.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/shibasaburo_kitasato.htm   (164 words)

  
 Shibasaburo Kitasato Biography / Biography of Shibasaburo Kitasato World of Biology Biography
During an outbreak of the bubonic plague in Hong Kong in 1894, Kitasato was sent by the Japanese government to research the disease.
Four years later, Kitasato and his student Kigoshi Shiga were able to isolate and describe the organism that caused dysentery.
Kitasato was named the first president of the Japanese Medical Association in 1923 and was made a baron by the Emperor in 1924.
www.bookrags.com /biography-shibasaburo-kitasato-wob   (371 words)

  
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The agreement is the result of a visit by veterinary professors from Kitasato University, leading to an externship at UT for 10 Japanese veterinary students and an upcoming lecture series in Japan by Mike Shires,dean of the UT veterinary college.
Kitasato has one of 16 veterinary programs in Japan and is located in Towada, a city in northern Japan.
In August, ten veterinary students from Kitasato spent two weeks in rotations of UT's clinical units, where they evaluated patients, met clients and were involved in treatments alongside UT senior veterinary students.
web.utk.edu /~globe/ipnov95.html   (440 words)

  
 The Scotsman - S2 Weekend - Books: Plagued by desire to win
As the epidemic mocks their efforts and continues to spread, Lowson is pleased when Professor Shibasaburo Kitasato, a Japanese bacteriologist of world renown and recent discoverer of the tetanus bacillus, sails in with an entourage to investigate the real cause of the disease.
Unlike Kitasato, however, Yersin is not welcomed by the British establishment and certainly not by Lowson, who thwarts his efforts at every turn, denying him laboratory space and even access to plague victims at the hospital.
Kitasato announces that he has discovered the plague bacillus in the blood of the Hong Kong victims and publishes his findings in the Lancet.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /s2.cfm?id=937952002   (738 words)

  
 Observer | Pride and prejudice
Just as Pasteur was pioneering rabies inoculation in Paris, tens of thousands were still to die from a disease made even more terrifying by the absence of any certainty, not only about how to treat it, but even of the method of its transmission.
Professor Shibasaburo Kitasato, a celebrated Japanese bacteriologist, was summoned to Hong Kong by colonial satraps.
Kitasato was feted by colonial administrators, and announced shortly afterwards - and wrongly - that he had solved the mystery.
observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4553281-102280,00.html   (440 words)

  
 Kitasato Shibasaburo
From 1885 to 1891 Kitasato studied in Robert Koch's laboratory in Berlin, where, with Emil von Behring, he studied tetanus and diphtheria bacilli.
In 1890 he and Behring demonstrated the value of antitoxin in preventing disease by producing a passive immunity to tetanus in an animal that received graded injections of blood serum from another animal infected with the disease.
Returning to Japan in 1892, Kitasato founded near Tokyo a laboratory that in 1899 was incorporated as the Imperial Japanese Institute for the Study of Infectious Diseases, and showed with his associates (among them, August von Wassermann) how dead cultures can be used in vaccination.
www.britanica.com /nobel/micro/323_57.html   (189 words)

  
 Shibasaburo Kitasato (1852-1931)
Shibasaburo Kitasato nació en Oguni, una villa de la provincia de Kumamoto, el 20 de diciembre de 1852.
Shibasaburo Kitasato murió en Nakanocho el 13 de junio de 1931.
Kitasato, S; Shiga, K; Takaki, T y Moriya, G. Bericht über die Pestepidemie in Kobe und Osaka, von nov. 1899 bis Jan. 1900.
www.historiadelamedicina.org /kitasato.html   (641 words)

  
 PLAGUE
Two scientists' race to discover the cause of bubonic plague, in an account woven together with the story of the lethal disease's reappearance in India in the late 20th century and a warning about its continuing presence.
British journalist Marriott (The Lost Tribe, 1997, etc.) writes that when the plague struck Hong Kong in 1894, the British governor's plea for help in unraveling the mystery of this killer was answered by two scientists: Professor Shibasaburo Kitasato, Japanese discoverer of the tetanus bacillus, and Dr. Alexandre Yersin, a French pioneer in diphtheria research.
Kitasato, who arrived with ample equipment and aides, was warmly welcomed by James Lowson, head of the Government Civil Hospital.
www.bookstandard.com /bookstandard/reviews/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001139584   (328 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews Books: Plague: A Story of Science, Rivalry, and the Scourge That Won't Go Away   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Kitasato was world-renowned for his research skills, and the British government allowed him unrestricted access to patients and to supplies.
A contemporary history of the plague, from 1894, when top scientists Alexandre Yersin and Shibasaburo Kitasato vied to discover the source of a Hong Kong outbreak, to contemporary New York, which has as many rats as peopleDeven as a strain of the disease is becoming resistant to antibiotics.
Koch-trained Shibasaburo Kitasato came with a team, was effusively welcomed, and announced he had discovered the blameworthy bacillus within a week.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0805075151/reviews   (988 words)

  
 Biography
In Berlin, Kitasato worked with Behring on tetanus and diphtheria, demonstrating the value of antitoxin in conferring passive immunity.
Kitasato founded the Institute for Infectious diseases, a private laboratory in Tokyo that was later transformed into the National Institute in 1899.
Japanese researcher, who assisted Kitasato in his research on the bubonic plague.
www.englib.cornell.edu /exhibits/microbe_hunters/Biography.html   (1273 words)

  
 ASM Membership   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Alexandre Yersin isolates Yersinia (Pasteurella) pestis, the organism that is responsible for bubonic plague.
Shibasaburo Kitasato also observes the bacterium in cases of plague
Kitasato, S. Preliminary notice of the bacillus of bubonic plague.
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 EMIL VON BEHRING   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Kitasato came from Japan; only the year before they had met in Koch's laboratory, Kitasato had identified the microbe which caused tetanus and shown that its danger to man lay in the toxin it produced.
Together, von Behring and Kitasato were able to demonstrate that the rabbit could be immunized against tetanus in the same way as it could against diphtheria.
Kitasato, without whom the serum might never have come into being, deserved just as much credit as von Behring for the work, but apparently was neglected by the Nobel Prize Commitee.
www.mhhe.com /biosci/cellmicro/nester/graphics/nester3ehp/common/vonbehr.html   (1615 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Shibasaburo Kitasato (Medicine, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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Shibasaburo Kitasato[shibA´sAbOOrO kE´tAsA´tO] Pronunciation Key, 1852–1931, Japanese physician.
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 yersin
In 1892 he joined the colonial health service and was sent to Hong Kong in 1894, where he and Kitasato Shibasaburo independently discovered the Plague bacillus.
The fundamental but separate works by Yersin and Kitasato in 1894 on the discovery of the etiologic agent of Plague in Hong Kong opened the way for investigating the disease and how it is spread.
Kitasato and Yersin described the presence of bipolar staining organisms in the swollen lymph node (bubo), blood, lungs, liver and spleen of dead patients.
www.xtec.es /~mherna23/deatdream23/yersin.htm   (241 words)

  
 A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Bubonic plague hits San Francisco
In 1894, two research physicians had simultaneously and independently identified the bacillus that causes bubonic plague.
Shibasaburo Kitasato published his findings in Japanese and English; Alexandre Yersin published in French.
People in different parts of the world credited one or the other with the discovery, depending which journals they had read.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dm00bu.html   (765 words)

  
 Shibasaburo Kitasato - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Shibasaburo Kitasato   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Shibasaburo Kitasato - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Shibasaburo Kitasato.
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 Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU. Epónimos Científicos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Shibasaburo Kitasato y Emil von Behring trabajando juntos en Berlín en 1890).
Shibasaburo Kitasato nació el 20 de diciembre de 1852 en Oguni una ciudad de la isla de Kyushu.
Kitasato también aisló el agente causante de la disentería en 1898 y estudió el proceso de infección en la tuberculosis.
www.uch.ceu.es /principal/eponimos_cientificos/kitasato.asp   (807 words)

  
 Emil Adolph von Behring (1854-1917) and Shibasaburo Kitasato (1852-1931) -- HAAS 71 (1): 62 -- Journal of Neurology, ...
Emil Adolph von Behring (1854-1917) and Shibasaburo Kitasato (1852-1931) -- HAAS 71 (1): 62 -- Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry
Emil Adolph von Behring (1854-1917) and Shibasaburo Kitasato (1852-1931)
Emil von Behring and Shibasaburo Kitasato were honoured philatelically on a stamp issued by Transkei in 1991 (Stanley Gibbons
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 Shibasaburo Kitasato   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Shibasaburo Kitasato (北里 柴三郎) (1852 - 1931) was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist.
After returning to Japan in 1891 he founded an institute for the study of infectiousdiseases.
When this was incorporated into Tokyo (ex-Imperial) University in 1914, heresigned and founded the Kitasato Institute, which he headed for the rest of his life.
www.therfcc.org /shibasaburo-kitasato-127505.html   (144 words)

  
 Behring, Emil von
There, with the Japanese bacteriologist Kitasato Shibasaburo, he showed that it was possible to provide an animal with passive immunity against tetanus by injecting it with the blood serum of another animal infected with the disease.
In collaboration with Paul Ehrlich, Behring then applied this technique of antitoxic immunity (a term which he and Kitasato originated) to prevent diphtheria.
The administration of diphtheria antitoxin, which was successfully marketed in 1892, became a routine part of the treatment of the disease.
www.britannica.com /nobel/micro/60_1.html   (225 words)

  
 Shibasaburo Kitasato Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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 immunology - immunology history III
Next on the podium were Emil von Behring and Shibasaburo Kitasato who took serum from animals infected with diphtheria and injected it into healthy animals.
This first demonstration of defense against infection was revealed and described as mediated by "antitoxin".
It was clear to Behring and Kitasato that the antitoxin was specific only for diphtheria, it did not confer any defense against other forms of infection.
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 Amazon.ca: Books: Plague   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Plague, commonly known as The Black Death, has occurred in three major pandemics, and this is a fine history of the latest, which started in China in the late 19th century and spread worldwide from Hong Kong.
Investigations into the nature of the disease in 1894 culminated in a contest between two early microbiologists, Kitasato and Yersin, a tale with obvious modern parallels.
This story, the rivalry between French doctor Alexander Yersin and his Japanese competitor, Kitasato Shibasaburo, is essentially what the book is about.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0805066802   (1153 words)

  
 Alexandre-Émile-John Yersin (www.whonamedit.com)
Kitasato was championed by Dr James A. Lowson, a naval surgeon who was Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital.
Within a few days of his arrival, Kitasato found a bacillus and announced it to the world via telegraph.
Kitasato published his findings in Japanese and English; Alexandre Yersin published in French.
www.whonamedit.com /doctor.cfm/2454.html   (2076 words)

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