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2 unusual facts about Otto Busse


Abraham Buschke

In 1894 with pathologist Otto Busse (1867–1922), Buschke described an infectious disease caused by the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans.

Otto Busse

In 1894 Busse was the first to provide a written account of cryptococcosis, caused by a yeast-like fungus now known as Cryptococcus neoformans.


Jean Paul Vuillemin

In 1901 he transferred the yeast-like fungus that was named Saccharomyces hominis by Otto Busse and Saccharomyces neoformans by Francesco Sanfelice to the genus Cryptococcus due to its absence of ascospores.


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