Otto Voges

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Daniel Wilhelm Otto Voges (* 1861 ; † July 6, 1911 in Amsterdam ) was a German medic. The Voges-Proskauer reaction and the bacterial genus Vogesella with the species Vogesella indigofera , which he first described, were named after him.

Life and work

Otto Voges studied in Heidelberg and at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin and wrote the dissertation on the mixture of nitrogenous constituents in urine in anemia and congestion in the spring of 1892 and received his doctorate as Dr. med. He then worked as an assistant doctor under Bernhard Proskauer . Together they developed the process of the Voges-Proskauer reaction . For a few years Voges researched in Berlin with Robert Koch and Johann Wilhelm Schütz about the immune serum against the red runny bacillus Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae in pigs.

In 1893 , described it a blue-pigmented bacterium in Kiel and named it Bacillus indigoferus ; At the beginning of the 20th century it was placed in the genus Pseudomonas and is now known as Vogesella indigofera, the type species of the genus Vogesella , which was newly established in 1997 and was named after Voges.

In 1899 Otto Voges was offered a chair in Buenos Aires and followed him. After several weeks of shipping, he arrived in Argentina and taught at the university there. He founded a bacteriological laboratory, which was later expanded and made a bacteriological institute. To research tropical diseases he traveled to the province of Chaco and described the pathogen Trypanosoma evansi of the Mal de Caderas horse disease in South America. In the autumn of 1899 he traveled to Asunción and diagnosed the Bubone plague on the Río de la Plata, which was completely unknown in Latin America . Together with Joaquin Zabala (1872-1919) he examined and described in 1901 the previously unknown infectious keratitis of cattle. Several newspapers in the United States reported his success in controlling mosquitoes with naphthalene in 1901 .

Publications

  • About the mixture of nitrogenous constituents in the urine in anemia and stasis. Inaugural dissertation, dated May 2, 1892. L. Schuhmacher, Berlin 1892.
  • About some of the pigment bacteria found in water . In: Centralblatt für Bakteriologie und Parasitenkunde. (14), 1893, pp. 301-314.
  • Cholera immunity . In: Centralblatt für Bakteriologie und Parasitenkunde. (19). 1896.
  • Critical studies and experimental studies on the bacteria of hemorrhagic septicemia and the diseases they cause . In: Journal of Hygiene and Infectious Diseases. (32), 1896, p. 149.
  • The fight against tuberculosis in cattle . G. Fischer Verlag, Jena 1897.
  • Sobre intoxicación por las mosquitos . Buenos Aires 1900.
    • Translation: About mosquito intoxication . Therapeutic counselor, 1901.
  • The Mal de Caderas . In: Journal of Hygiene and Infectious Diseases. 1902, pp. 323-372.
  • The bubone plague on La Plata . In: Journal of Hygiene and Infectious Diseases. 1902, pp. 301-322.
  • Observations and studies of a disease of the extremities occurring in young cattle in South America . In: Centralblatt für Bakteriologie. I. Abt., Orig. 31, 1902, p. 136.

Participation

  • with B. Proskauer: Nutritional physiology and differential diagnosis of hemorrhagic septicemia . In: Journal of Hygiene and Infectious Diseases. (28), 1898, pp. 20-22.

literature

  • Lorenz: Correction to the article on vaccinations to protect against the rot in pigs and on the knowledge of the rot in the bacillus by O. Voges and W. Schütz in Berlin . In: Journal of Hygiene and Infectious Diseases. Vol. XXIX, Issue 1, 1898, pp. 149-152.
  • Walter Migula : System of Bacteria. Volume 2: Special systematics of bacteria . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena 1900.
  • Ch. W. Stiles: Voges's Description of Mal de Caderas, A South American Trypanosomatic Disease of Domestic Animals. GPO, Washington 1902.
  • Systematic Study of the Genus Vogesella gen. Nov. and its. Type Species Vogesella indigofera comb. nov. In: International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. Jan. 1997, pp. 19-27.

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personal data
SURNAME Voges, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voges, Daniel Wilhelm Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH 1861
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1911
Place of death Amsterdam