Plague is a deadly infectious disease that is caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis, named after the French-Swiss bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin.

A private university founded in 2004 in Da Lat was named " Yersin University " in his honour.

There was a high school named after him which was built in the 1920s i. e. Lycee Yersin aka Grand Lycee ( grade 6 to 12 ) vs Petit Lycee ( elementary to grade 5 ) and a university named for him which was built in the 2000s.

A street in the city is named after him, there is a shrine located next to his tomb, and his house has been converted into the Yersin Museum.

The bacterium that causes this disease, Yersinia pestis, was named after Yersin.

Y. pestis was discovered in 1894 by Alexandre Yersin, a Swiss / French physician and bacteriologist from the Pasteur Institute, during an epidemic of plague in Hong Kong.

However, it was Yersin who actually linked plague with Yersinia pestis.

* Alexandre Yersin discovered in 1894 the pathogen of bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis ;

The French-Swiss bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin ( who discovered the Yersinia pestis bacterium ) identified himself with Nha Trang's life for 50 years ( affectionately known as Ông Năm ).

He also took part in the development in the first immune serum against the bubonic plague ( black pest ), in collaboration with the discoverer of its pathogenic agent, Yersinia pestis, by Alexandre Yersin ( 1863 – 1943 ), and went to Portugal to study and to help fight an epidemic at Oporto.

In 1894, in Hong Kong, Swiss-born French bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin isolated the responsible bacterium ( Yersinia pestis ) and determined the common mode of transmission.

Yersin was a member of the Pasteur school of thought.

In 1894 Yersin was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong, to investigate the Manchurian Pneumonic Plague epidemic, and there, in a small hut next to the institute ( according to Plague by Wendy Orent ), he made his greatest discovery, that of the pathogen which causes the disease.

Yersin, after his research with Roux, leaves abruptly the Institute for personal reasons, without losing Pasteur ’ s benevolence, who never doubts that the young man is destined to great things in the scientific area and will contribute in spreading the pastorian spirit around the world.

The news of a violent plague outburst in Yunman enables Yersin to truly show and reach his potential as he is called, as Pasteur ’ s scholar, to conduct a microbiological research of the disease.

Today, his name is one of the few remaining French names in the streets of Ho Chi Minh City ( others being Yersin, Rhodes, Pasteur ).

The mayor of Rio de Janeiro authorized the construction of a plant for manufacturing the serum against the disease which had been developed at the Pasteur Institute by Alexandre Yersin and coworkers, and asked the institution for a scientist who could bring to Brazil this know-how.

During the 1890s, explorers in the area ( including the noted bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin, protégé of the renowned French chemist Louis Pasteur ), which was then part of the French territory of Cochinchina, asked the French governor-general, Paul Doumer, to create a resort center in the highlands.

Not long after the Institute ’ s inauguration, Roux, now less occupied in the fight against rabies, resumes in a new lab and with the help of a new addition, Yersin, his experiments on diphtheria.

Alexandre Yersin is well remembered in Vietnam, where he was affectionately called Ông Năm ( Mr. Nam / Fifth ) by the people.

Yersin also noted that rats were affected by plague not only during plague epidemics but also often preceding such epidemics in humans, and that plague was regarded by many locals as a disease of rats: villagers in China and India asserted that, when large numbers of rats were found dead, plague outbreaks soon followed.

Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin ( September 22, 1863 – March 1, 1943 ) was a Swiss and French physician and bacteriologist.

Yersin was born in 1863 in Aubonne, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, to a family originally from France.

Yersin was also able to demonstrate for the first time that the same bacillus was present in the rodent as well as in the human disease, thus underlining the possible means of transmission.

Yersin also tried his hand at agriculture, and was a pioneer in the cultivation of rubber trees ( Hevea brasiliensis ) imported from Brazil into Indochina.

Dr. Yersin was credited for finding the site for the town of Dalat ( 300 km North West of Saigon ) in 1893.

While in Hong Kong, Yersin was helped in his search by an Italian priest of PIME order.

Roux and Yersin establish that they are dealing with a new type of bacillus, not only able to proliferate and abundantly reproduce itself, but also capable of spreading at the same time a powerful venom and they deduce that it can play the role of antigen, that is if they can overcome the delicate moment of its injection, made especially dangerous by the toxin.

In 1894, two bacteriologists, Alexandre Yersin of France and Kitasato Shibasaburō of Japan, independently isolated the bacterium in Hong Kong responsible for the Third Pandemic.

Though both investigators reported their findings, a series of confusing and contradictory statements by Kitasato eventually led to the acceptance of Yersin as the primary discoverer of the organism.

Yersin, a Swiss bacteriologist, and Kitasato Shibasaburō, a Japanese bacteriologist.

* Yersin, Hartmut ( Ed.

In 1888 Emile Roux and Alexandre Yersin isolated diphtheria toxin, and following the 1890 discovery by Behring and Kitasato of antitoxin based immunity to diphtheria and tetanus, the antitoxin became the first major success of modern therapeutic Immunology.

* Alexandre Yersin, bacteriologist who discovered the bacillus of the plague or pest, lived there.

In order to practice medicine in France, Yersin applied for and obtained French nationality in 1888.

Dr. Kitasato Shibasaburō, also in Hong Kong, had identified the same bacterium several days earlier, but because Kitasato's initial reports were vague and somewhat contradictory, some give Yersin sole credit for the discovery ; however, a thorough analysis of the morphology of the organism discovered by Kitasato has determined that there is " little doubt that Kitasato did isolate, study, and reasonably characterize the plague bacillus " and " should not be denied this credit ".

From 1895 to 1897, Yersin further pursued his studies on the bubonic plague.

Yersin tried the serum received from Paris in Canton and Amoy, in 1896, and in Bombay, India, in 1897, with disappointing results.

Originally named Pasteurella pestis, the organism was renamed in 1967.

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