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    Agostino Bassi, sometimes called de Lodi (25 September 1773 – 8 February 1856), was an Italian entomologist. He preceded Louis Pasteur in the discovery...
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    economic concerns over collapsing silk production, Italian entomologist Agostino Bassi researched a silkworm disease known as "muscardine" in French and "calcinaccio"...
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    calcino. While studying muscardine in silkworms in the 19th century, Agostino Bassi found that the causal agent was a fungus. This was the first demonstration...
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  • Noelle Bassi (born 1983), U.S. swimmer Nuvraj Bassi (born 1983), Canadian football player Agostino Bassi (1773–1856), Italian entomologist Carlo Bassi (1807–1856)...
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    in 1876, concerning the diseases of beer. In the early 19th century, Agostino Bassi had shown that muscardine was caused by a fungus that infected silkworms...
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  • (who had the idea that fomites could harbor the seeds of contagion), Agostino Bassi (who discovered that the muscardine disease of silkworms was caused...
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  • architect of the Baroque Agostino Di Bartolomei (1955–1994), Italian footballer Agostino Bassi (1773–1856), Italian entomologist Agostino Beltrano (died 1665)...
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  • Caroline Aase (1883–1980) A.Barbero – Andrés Barbero (1877–1951) A.BassiAgostino Bassi (1773–1856) A.Baytop – Asuman Baytop (1920–2015) Abbayes – Henry...
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    to Italy, Spain, Syria, Turkey, and China. In 1807, bacteriologist Agostino Bassi began a 25-year investigation into what caused the silkworm disease...
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  • – First experimental demonstration of the germ theory of disease by Agostino Bassi though he does not formally propose the theory until 1844 1813 – Vautier...
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