Jaume Ferran i Clua, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Spanish microbiologist
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Place of Birth: Corbera d'Ebre, Catalonia, Spain
About Jaume Ferran i Clua
- Jaume Ferran i Clua (Corbera d'Ebre, 1851 – Barcelona 1929) was a Spanish bacteriologist and sanitarian , contemporary of Koch, and said by his fellows to have made some of the discoveries attributed to Koch.
- As early as 1885, he wrote on immunization against cholera.
- In 1893, his work on this subject was translated into French with the title L'Inoculation préventive contre le Cholera.Tuberculosis is another disease in which Ferran was always deeply interested.
- Some of his ideas on the transmission and virulence of tuberculosis are revolutionary. He died in 1929 and was buried in Montjuïc Cemetery, Barcelona.
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