Babesiosis – of joint Romanian and US ancestry

Viktor Babes, son of a Romanian magistrate, was born in Vienna in 1854. After studying medicine in Budapest and Vienna, and working in Paris (L. Pasteur) and Berlin (R. Virchow and R. Koch), he became a respected microbiologist with broad interests in immunology, vaccinology, virology, bacteriology, and public health. When he accepted a call as professor in Bucharest in 1887, he had already published more than one hundred scientific papers. In 1888, he reported „Sur 1'hémoglobinurie bactérienne du boeuf“, on bacteria-like organisms (Haematococcus bovis) in the red blood cells of cattle from the Danube lowlands with febrile hemoglobinuria.
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Tags: Spotlight Source Type: research