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Described bacilli recovered from plague buboes in Hong Kong, their cultivation and animal-inoculation observations supporting a causal role in bubonic plague.
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The record is Yersin’s exact 1894 Annales de l’Institut Pasteur paper. Kitasato’s separate report, priority disputes, later taxonomy, antiserum work and flea-transmission studies remain separate.
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- Wellcome record for Yersin’s Hong Kong plague paper
- Université Paris Cité scan of Yersin’s plague paper
- Bibel and Chen review of the Yersin–Kitasato controversy
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Alexandre Yersin
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Documented countries / regions: China
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Yersin: bubonic plague in Hong Kong
Described bacilli recovered from plague buboes in Hong Kong, their cultivation and animal-inoculation observations supporting a causal role in bubonic plague.
Scientific scope
The record is Yersin’s exact 1894 Annales de l’Institut Pasteur paper. Kitasato’s separate report, priority disputes, later taxonomy, antiserum work and flea-transmission studies remain separate.
Reading status
This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Alexandre Yersin
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.