Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, M.D.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1960
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Physician â€“ Pathologist, Immunologist, Virologist, Bacteriologist. Discovered acquired immunological tolerance - important for transplantation. Cultivated viruses on chorioallantoic membrane, determined inoculated material concentration. Red blood cells haemagglutination by viruses. Virus complexity. Neuropathogenicity transfer. Virus infections prevention. Typhoid fever agglutinin reactions. Isolated influenza A virus strain. Vibrio cholera receptor-destroying enzyme. Excellent teacher.

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Coxiella burnetii – Pathogenic Agent of Q (Query) Fever.

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Name: Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Birth: 3 September 1899, Traralgon, Australia
Death: 31 August 1985, Melbourne, Australia
Institution: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
Award: "for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance."
Portion of Cash: 1/2
Education: M.B., B.S. 1922, M.D. 1923. University of Melbourne
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