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JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL INFECTION
Volume 70, Issue 4, Pages 369-372Publisher
W B SAUNDERS CO LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2008.10.001
Keywords
Abscess; Micrococcus; Ogston; Staphylococcus; Wound infection
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One hundred and thirty years ago, Alexander Ogston, a surgeon in Aberdeen, first saw micro-organisms in pus from an abscess, which he later called 'staphylococci'. He had already introduced 'Listerism' to Aberdeen but wished to know more about the cause of infections. He extended Koch's work on 'traumatic wound infection in animals' to humans by a series of ingenious experiments. He used the most modern German microscopes and Koch's stains to study pus from abscesses, and was first to grow staphylococci in artificial cultures (hens' eggs). From 1878 to 1883 the laboratory in his garden was a major UK bacteriology research laboratory. Eventually he became Regius Professor of Surgery and had to 'leave research to others'. (c) 2008 The Hospital Infection Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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