Sir David Bruce (* 29. May 1855 in Melbourne, "† 20 November 1931 in London) was an Australian-English physician and Parasitologe.

It studied medicine in Edinburgh and as an army surgeon into the then British possession Malta was shifted. There it examined the Malta fever designated today after them as Brucellose together with his Mrs. Elisabeth Mary Bruce. They discovered and described together with Themistocles Zammit 1887 the exciter of these Zoonose as the rod-shaped bacteria of the Brucellen.

Later to them also the discovery of the exciter of the animal epidemic Nagana, Trypanosoma succeeded brucei brucei and it claimant also the epidemiological research over the sleep illness in Africa approximately 1894 succeeded the first discovery that an insect transfers pathological Protozoen.

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