Otto Busse

Otto Emil Franz Ulrich Busse ( born December 6, 1867 in Gühlitz at Pearl Mountain, † February 3, 1922 in Zurich ) was a pathologist.

Buses studied at the University of Greifswald with Paul Grawitz, where he received his doctorate in 1892. 1894 described buses and Abraham Buschke the infectious disease cryptococcosis, which is mainly caused by the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans. Cryptococcosis was therefore called Busse- Buschke disease. Buses habilitated in 1896. From 1904 he worked as a professor of pathology at the Medical Academy in Poznan. From 1911 he worked as a professor of pathology and dean of the Institute of Pathology at the University of Zurich. The growth of cells on a glass slide in 1912 Alexis Carrel, buses used this method to investigate inflammatory processes and photographically documented.

Paul Busse- Grawitz, a German - Argentinean doctor who was a son bus from his first marriage with the daughter of his high school teacher Paul Grawitz.

Publications

• The yeasts as pathogens. Hirschwald, Berlin 1897 ( zgl. habilitation font, Greifswald Univ., 1896).
• The autopsy report. Schoetz, Berlin 1900.