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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

WHITMORE, Alfred (1876 – 1946)

1876 – 1946

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1912 CE

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An account of the discovery of a hitherto undescribed infective disease occurring among the population of Rangoon.

WHITMORE, Alfred (1876 – 1946)
KRISHNASWAMI, C. S.
KRISHNASWAMI, C. S.

First description of melioidosis. Together with C.S. Krishnaswami, Whitmore identified Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis (also known as "Whitmore's disease") in opium addicts in Rangoon in …