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Filippo Pacini

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19th-century Italian anatomist

Lived 1812 to 1883 · aged 71
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Filippo Pacini was an Italian anatomist, posthumously famous for isolating the cholera bacterium Vibrio cholerae in 1854, well before Robert Koch's more widely accepted discoveries 30 years later.

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This microscope slide, prepared by Pacini in 1854, was clearly identified as containing the cholera bacterium.This microscope slide, prepared by Pacini in 1854, was clearly identified as containing the cholera bacterium.

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Lived 1812 to 1883 · aged 71
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