Edoardo Maragliano (1849 –1940): The unfortunate fate of a real pioneer in the fight against tuberculosis

At the beginning of the bacteriological era, and the contemporary development of new medical sciences, as biochemistry and cellular pathology, the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as the causal agent of one of the worst diseases in the world, by R. Koch, in 1882, is considered the starting point of therapeutic and preventive research against tuberculosis. After the first ineffective use of tuberculin as a therapeutic agent, in Italy a group of medical researchers, led by Edoardo Maragliano, full professor of internal medicine at the University of Genoa, initiated experimental and clinical studies to identify therapeutic sera and vaccines against M.
Source: Tuberculosis - Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Source Type: research