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WEICHSELBAUM, Anton (1845 – 1920)

WEICHSELBAUM, Anton (1845 – 1920)

1845 – 1920

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1886 CE

#3176

Ueber die Aetiologie der acuten Lungen- und Rippenfellentzündungen.

Weichselbaum definitely established that Friedländer’s bacillus was responsible for pneumonia in a small percentage of cases.

1887 CE

#4678

Ueber die Aetiologie der akuten Meningitis cerebro-spinalis.

Weichselbaum discovered the meningococcus, Neisseria meningitidis, causative agent of cerebrospinal meningitis.