Definitions for alexandre yersin
alexan·dre yersin

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1. Yersin, Alexandre Yersin, Alexandre Emile Jean Yersinnoun

   French bacteriologist born in Switzerland; was a student of Pasteur; discovered the plague bacillus (1863-1943)

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1. Alexandre Yersin

   Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin was a Swiss and French physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest, which was later renamed in his honour. Yersin was born in 1863 in Aubonne, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, to a family originally from France. From 1883 to 1884, Yersin studied medicine at Lausanne, Switzerland; and then at Marburg, Germany and Paris. In 1886, he entered Louis Pasteur's research laboratory at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, by invitation of Emile Roux, and participated in the development of the anti-rabies serum. In 1888 he received his doctorate with a dissertation entitled Étude sur le Développement du Tubercule Expérimental and spent two months with Robert Koch in Germany. He joined the recently-created Pasteur Institute in 1889 as Roux's collaborator, and discovered with him the diphtheric toxin. In order to practice medicine in France, Yersin applied for and obtained French nationality in 1888. Soon afterwards, he left for French Indochina in Southeast Asia as a physician for the Messageries Maritimes company, on the Saigon-Manila line and then on the Saigon-Haiphong line. He participated in one of the Auguste Pavie missions. In 1894 Yersin was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong, to investigate the Manchurian Pneumonic Plague epidemic, and there, in a small hut next to the institute, he made his greatest discovery, that of the pathogen which causes the disease. Dr. Kitasato Shibasaburō, also in Hong Kong, had also identified a bacterium several days earlier. There is controversy wether this was the same, pneumococci or a mix of the two. Because Kitasato's initial reports were vague and somewhat contradictory, some give Yersin sole credit for the discovery; however, a thorough analysis of the morphology of the organism discovered by Kitasato has determined that, while Yersin made his discovery on June 20th, "we are confident that Kitasato had examined the plague bacillus in Hong Kong in late June and early July 1894" and "should not be denied this credit". Yersin was also able to demonstrate for the first time that the same bacillus was present in the rodent as well as in the human disease, thus underlining the possible means of transmission. This important discovery was communicated to the French Academy of Sciences in the same year, by his colleague Emile Duclaux, in a classic paper titled La Peste Bubonique A Hong-Kong.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of alexandre yersin in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

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   The numerical value of alexandre yersin in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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