Akiba Tomoichirō

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Akiba is the family name, Tomoichirō the first name.

Akiba Tomoichirō ( Japanese 秋葉 朝 一郎 ; * 1903 ; † 1983 ) was a Japanese medic . Akiba discovered in 1959 that bacteria that are already drug- resistant can pass this property on to other bacteria, even if they are not related to them. His research was recognized by the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize 1980, which he received together with Hamao Umezawa .

Life

Akiba studied medicine and microbiology and was professor at the medical faculty of the University of Tokyo between 1944 and 1963 . After his retirement he worked at the Nihon Research Institute until 1973 . Since 1970 he was director of the Kyōritsu Pharmaceutical College (today: Pharmaceutical Faculty of Keiō University ). He was among the founders of the Japanese Society for Medical Mycology .

Fonts (selection)

• Tomoichiro Akiba, Kotaro Koyama, Yoshito Ishiki, Sadao Kimura, Toshio Fukushima: ON THE MECHANISM OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIPLE-DRUG-RESISTANT CLONES OF SHIGELLA . In: Japanese Journal of Microbiology . tape 4 , no. 2 , 1960, p. 219–227 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1348-0421.1960.tb00170.x (English).
• Masanosuke Yoshikawa, Tomoichiro Akiba: STUDIES ON TRANSFERABLE DRUG RESISTANCE IN BACTERIA . In: Japanese Journal of Microbiology . tape 5 , no. 4 , 1961, pp. 465 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1348-0421.1961.tb00224.x .
• Yoshiro Terawaki, Hisao Takayasu, Tomoichiro Akiba: Thermosensitive Replication of a Kanamycin Resistance Factor . In: Journal of Bacteriology . tape 94 , no. 3 , 1967, p. 687-690 (English, asm.org ).

literature

• Jeffrey C. Pommerville, Jeffery Pommerville: Alcamo's Fundamentals of Microbiology . Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2004, p. 241 ( google.de ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ At the same time as and independently of Akiba, Kunitaro Ochiai also made this discovery, cf. Tsutomu Tsuchiya, Kenji Maeda, Derek Horton: Obituary Hamao Umezawa 1914-1986 . In: Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry . tape 48 , 1990, pp. 1-20 , p. 11 ( google.de ).
2. ^ The Japanese Society for Medical Mycology: Brief History. In: jsmm.org. Retrieved January 18, 2020 .