Otto Emil Franz Ulrich Busse (pronounced [ˈɔtoː ˈbʊsə] ; 6 December 1867 – 3 February 1922) was a German pathologist. Busse was born in Gühlitz, Kingdom of Prussia.
He studied medicine at the University of Greifswald, and subsequently became an assistant to Paul Grawitz (1850–1932), (his future father-in-law) at Greifswald. Afterwards he moved to Posen (today Poznań, Poland), where in 1904 he became a professor of pathology. From 1911 until 1922 he was professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Zurich, where he died.
In 1894 Busse was the first to provide a written account of cryptococcosis, caused by a yeast-like fungus now known as Cryptococcus neoformans. This he discovered in a patient with chronic periostitis of the tibia. At the time he called the fungus Saccharomyces hominis. During the same time period, Francesco Sanfelice cultured the yeast-like fungus from peach juice, naming the fungus Saccharomyces neoformans. Infection caused by the fungus has also been referred to as "Busse-Buschke disease", named in conjunction with dermatologist Abraham Buschke (1868–1943).
See also
References
- NCBI One hundred years of cryptococcosis. Medical mycology in the 19th century in Greifswald
- PrignitzLexikon (translated biography of Otto Busse)
- Busse-Buschke disease @ Who Named It
- Peter Friedli (1957). "Busse, Otto Emil Franz Ulrich". Neue Deutsche Biographie. Vol. 3. p. 76.
- Clinical Mycology by Elias J. Anaissie, Michael R. McGinnis, Michael A. Pfaller
- The Yeasts, a Taxonomic Study by C. P. Kurtzman, Jack W. Fell
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