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Kitasato

American  
[kee-tah-sah-taw] / ˈki tɑˈsɑ tɔ /

noun

  1. Shibasaburo 1852–1931, Japanese bacteriologist.


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The firm has been working with Kitasato University, a medical university in Tokyo.

From Reuters • Jan. 31, 2022

The Kitasato University group received the physics Ig for their insights.

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2014

The bacillus, which was isolated by Kitasato, the Japanese bacteriologist, in 1889, is found everywhere in soil, hay dust, floors, on old nails, especially on the floors of old wooden slaughter-houses.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

Behring and Kitasato experimenting in that direction, found that the blood of immune animals, injected into susceptible individuals, after twenty-four hours rendered them immune, but this would not follow with all diseases.

From A Modern Wizard by Ottolengui, Rodrigues

And it may also be here mentioned that the connection between bubonic plague and rats, and the fleas that infest them, was discovered by the Japanese scientist, Kitasato.

From Ranching, Sport and Travel by Carson, Thomas