Frederick Twort

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Frederick Twort

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According to Wikipedia, Frederick William Twort FRS was an English bacteriologist and was the original discoverer in 1915 of bacteriophages . He studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital, London, was superintendent of the Brown Institute for Animals , and was a professor of bacteriology at the University of London. He researched into Johne's disease, a chronic intestinal infection of cattle, and also discovered that vitamin K is needed by growing leprosy bacteria.

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AN INVESTIGATION ON THE NATURE OF ULTRA-MICROSCOPIC VIRUSES. (1915) (701)
A Method for Isolating and Cultivating the Mycobacterium enteritidis chronicae pseudotuberculosae bovis, Johne, and some Experiments on the Preparation of a Diagnostic Vaccine for Pseudo-tuberculous Enteritis of Bovines (1912) (119)
On the presence of β‐imidazolethylamine in the intestinal wall; with a method of isolating a bacillus from the alimentary canal which converts histidine into this substance (1912) (41)
On creatin‐destroying bacilli in the intestine, and their isolation (1912) (24)
A method for isolating and growing the lepra bacillus of man. (Preliminary note.) (1910) (24)
The fermentation of glucosides by bacteria of the typhoid-coli group and the acquisition of new fermenting powers by bacillus dysenteriæ and other micro-organisms. preliminary communication (1907) (24)
Further Investigations on the Nature of Ultra-Microscopic Viruses and their Cultivation (1936) (22)
An Improved Neutral Red Light Green Double Stain, for staining Animal Parasites, Micro-Organisms and Tissues. (18)
THE DISCOVERY OF THE "BACTERIOPHAGE." (1925) (17)
A monograph on Johne's disease (enteritis chronica pseudotuberculosa bovis) by F. W. Twort ... and G. L. Y. Ingram ... (16)
THE TRANSMISSIBLE BACTERIAL LYSIN AND ITS ACTION ON DEAD BACTERIA. (1925) (14)
THE TWORT-D'HERELLE PHENOMENON. (1926) (9)
An Investigagtion on Influenza (1921) (7)
Filter-Passing Transmissible Bacteriolytic Agents (Bàcteriophage). (1930) (7)
Researches on Dysentery. (1920) (6)
A Theoretical Study of the Nature of Ultramicroscopic Viruses (1922) (6)
Discussion on "Ultra-Microscopic Viruses Infecting Animals and Plants." (1929) (6)
CULTIVATION OF SPIROCHÆTES: ON THE SURFACE OF SOLID MEDIA CONTAINING AN "ESSENTIAL SUBSTANCE." (1921) (6)
THE ETIOLOGY OF MALIGNANT NEW GROWTHS (1925) (6)
The Demonstration of a Hitherto Undescribed Type of Cell in the Glands of the Stomach. (1924) (3)
The Influence of Glucosides on the Growth of Acid-Fast Bacilli, with a New Method of Isolating Human Tubercle Bacilli Directly from Tuberculous Material Contaminated with Other Micro-Organisms (Preliminary Note.) (1909) (2)
On The Virulence of Bacillus Mallei Obtained from Human Sources. * *Translated from the Centralblatt. Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde u. Infektions-krankheiten. (1905) (2)
Further Experiments with the Mycobacterium Enteritidis Chronicæ Pseudo-Tuberculosæ Bovis, Johne, and with Vaccines Prepared from this Micro-Organism (2)
Further Modifications in the Preparation of Neutral Red-Light Green Double Stain, and an Improved Method of Embedding Tissues in Paraffin (1924) (1)
THE PRESENCE OF A THIRD TYPE OF CELL IN THE GLANDS OF THE STOMACH. (1924) (1)
THE ULTRA-MICROSCOPIC VIRUSES. (1921) (1)
A Question of Priority (1944) (0)
Some Further Researches on Johne's Disease (1912) (0)
INDEPENDENCE IN RESEARCH (1948) (0)

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