Kitasato

[kee-tah-sah-taw]

noun

1. Shibasaburo 1852–1931, Japanese bacteriologist.

Example Sentences

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

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“It is inappropriate to push vaccinations to hold the Olympics,” said Dr. Tetsuo Nakayama, a professor at Kitasato Institute for Life Sciences.

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It was not until the 1890s, when Emil von Behring and Kitasato Shibasaburo developed antitoxins — convalescent plasma — to treat diphtheria and tetanus that the public embraced the germ theory.

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Antibodies were discovered in 1890 by the physiologist Emil von Behring and the microbiologist Shibasaburo Kitasato as protective antitoxins in the blood of animals exposed to diphtheria or tetanus toxin2.

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Monoclonal antibodies are also being developed to control infectious diseases — following the concept of protective antibodies that goes back to von Behring and Kitasato.

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