David Bruce (microbiologist)
Major-General Sir David Bruce was a Scottish pathologist and microbiologist who made some of the key contributions in tropical medicine. In 1887, he discovered a bacterium, now called Brucella, that caused what was known as Malta fever. In 1894, he discovered a protozoan parasite, named Trypanosoma brucei, as the causative pathogen of nagana.
David Bruce (microbiologist)
David Bruce (centre), with members of the Mediterranean Fever Commission (for brucellosis). Themistocles Zammit is at top left.
Members of the third Commission (L–R): Percival Mackie, Lady Bruce, Sir David Bruce, H.R. Bateman, A.E. Hamerton
David Bruce's name as it features on the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Brucella is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria, named after David Bruce (1855–1931). They are small, non-encapsulated, non-motile, facultatively intracellular coccobacilli.
Brucella