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Hideyo Noguchi

Bacteriology · Bacteriology

New York, Japan

Overview

Hideyo Noguchi is a bacteriology specialist at Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Based in New York.

Biography

Hideyo Noguchi was a Japanese bacteriologist who contributed to the understanding of syphilis, yellow fever, and other infectious diseases. He died of yellow fever while researching it in Ghana.

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The life and contributions of Hideyo Noguchi

1911

Cultured Treponema pallidum

Demonstrated the syphilis spirochete in the brain of patients with general paresis

1928

Died researching yellow fever

Contracted and died of yellow fever while studying the disease in Accra, Ghana