Octave Gengou

Octave Gengou Pierre Joseph ( born February 27, 1875 in Ouffet, † April 25, 1957 in Antwerp) was a Belgian bacteriologist. He discovered the bacterium Bordetella pertussis with Jules Bordet.

Biography

Gengou worked at the Belgian Institut Pasteur in Brussels. With Jules Bordet in 1906 he isolated Bordetella pertussis in pure culture and postulated it as the cause of whooping cough. 1912 both developed the first whooping cough vaccine. He also made ​​major basic research for nowadays the most common test for diseases (for example, for the Wassermann test by August von Wassermann ).

  • Bacteriologist
  • Belgian
  • Born 1875
  • Died in 1957
  • Man
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