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Dec 06, 1867 Perleberg, Brandenburg, Germany Died on 03 Feb 1922 (aged 54)
German pathologist
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About Otto Busse
- Otto Emil Franz Ulrich Busse (December 6, 1867 – February 3, 1922) was a German pathologist.
- Busse was born in Gühlitz, Prignitz, Germany.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 Poznan, 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).
