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ZAMMIT, Themistocles (1864 – 1935)

ZAMMIT, Themistocles (1864 – 1935)

1864 – 1935

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Stefan Bellini · Own work · CC0

1905 CE

#10780

A preliminary note on the susceptibility of goats to Malta fever.

Zammit discovered that contaminated goat milk was the vector for transmission to humans of the Malta fever bacterium, Brucellosis melitensis. At the time goat milk was a primary source of milk in Malta and other parts…