Medicine & Surgery
Discovery of cholera toxin
1959 CESambhu Nath DeDe's experimentsBengal
1959
Showed that Vibrio cholerae kills via a secreted enterotoxin, overturning older ideas about cholera.
- Dated
- 1959
- As scholars put it
- 1959 CE
- Originator
- Sambhu Nath De
- Source text
- De's experiments
- Region
- Bengal
- Discipline
- Medicine & Surgery
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Meanwhile in the West
Later built upon by Western researchers who won major prizes.
Fair to say
Widely regarded as Nobel-worthy but never so recognised in his lifetime.
Path to modern innovation
The basis of modern understanding and treatment of cholera.
Transmission
Done in Kolkata with modest facilities.
Primary sources
References
- 1S. N. De, Nature (1959)
Further reading
Related
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