Bernhard Lauritz Frederik Bang

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birth_date = June 7, 1848
birth_place = Sorø
death_date = June 22, 1932
death_place = Copenhagen
residence = Danish
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field = veterinary
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known_for = Brucella abortus
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Bernhard Lauritz Frederik Bang (June 7, 1848 Sorø - June 22, 1932 Copenhagen), was a Danish veterinarian. Discovered Brucella abortus in 1897, which came to be known as "Bang's bacillus". Bang's bacillus was the cause of the contagious "Bang's disease" (now known as Brucellosis) which can cause pregnant cattle to abort, and causes undulant fever in humans.

Bang was awarded his M.D. in 1880 and began teaching at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University of Denmark in Copenhagen. He later became the director of the College. Bang was a veterinary adviser to the Danish government.

For his contributions to veterinary medicine, he received an honorary doctorate from the Veterinary College of Utrecht in 1921.

Bang is known for his work on:
*development of a control for bovine tuberculosis
*research on smallpox vaccination
*research on animal bacillary disease

References

*"Bang, Bernhard Lauritz Frederik." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2005. Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service. 23 Nov. 2005 [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9013156]
*"Summary of articles published in Argos #20 (1999), the bulletin of the Dutch Veterinary History Society." 23 Nov. 2005 [http://wahvm.vet.uu.nl/specific/resources/Argos20.html]
*Citation
id = PMID:11623094
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11623094
last=Larsen
first=H
publication-date=1992
year=1992
title=Letters from abroad to Professor dr. med. Bernhard Bang, Copenhagen.
volume=17
issue=1-2
periodical=Historia medicinae veterinariae
pages=1-5
*Citation
id = PMID:11622379
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11622379
last=Larsen
first=H
publication-date=1990
year=1990
title=Letters from abroad to Professor dr. med. Bernhard Bang, Copenhagen.
volume=15
issue=1
periodical=Historia medicinae veterinariae
pages=1-32
*Citation
id = PMID:3136596
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3136596
last=Mochmann
first=H
last2=Köhler
first2=W
publication-date=1988
year=1988
title= [100 years of bacteriology: the history of the discovery of brucellosis. 2: Discovery of the etiology of infectious abortion in cattle by the Danish veterinary pathologist Bernhard Bang and proof of the relation of "Micrococcus melitensis" and "Bacillus abortus" by the American microbiologist Alice Evans]
volume=82
issue=8
periodical=Zeitschrift für ärztliche Fortbildung
pages=381-5
*Citation
id = PMID:4888156
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4888156
publication-date=1969 Apr 28
year=1969
title=Bernhard Bang, (1848-1932) veterinary physician.
volume=208
issue=4
periodical=JAMA
pages=687-8

External links

* [http://www.kvl.dk Den Kgl. Veterinær- og Landbohøjskole (College of Veterinary and Agriculture)]