Shibasaburo Kitasato Kitasato Shibasaburo; * 29 January 1853 in Kumamoto on the island Kyushu; "† 13 June 1931) was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist.

1885 came Kitasato to Germany, in order to work together with Emil von Behring into Robert of cook laboratory into Berlin. There it examined the exciters of the Tetanus (Wundstarrkrampf) and the Diphtherie. 1889 succeeded it to it as first, Clostridium tetani, which Wundstarrkrampf causing bacterium in a pure culture. Together with Emil von Behring it showed 1890 the effect of Antitoxinen against Tetanus and Diphtherie. 1892 returned Kitasato to Japan.

1894 researched Kitasato at the same time with Alexandre Yersin in Hong Kong after the exciter of the plague epidemic disease broken off there. The description of the exciter published by it turned out later than mistake, which is to due probably to pollution of bacterial cultures by Pneumokokken. To some time Kitasato was considered as a discoverer of the plague exciter, which is called today Yersinia pestis.

1915 created Kitasato Forschungsinstitut in Tokyo, designated after it.

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