Adelchi Negri, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian microbiologist
Date of Birth: 02-Aug-1876
Place of Birth: Perugia, Umbria, Italy
Date of Death: 19-Feb-1912
Profession: biologist, pathologist
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Adelchi Negri
- Adelchi Negri (2 August 1876 – 19 February 1912) was an Italian pathologist and microbiologist born in Perugia. He studied medicine and surgery at the University of Pavia, where he was a pupil of Camillo Golgi (1843–1926).
- After graduation in 1900, he became an assistant to Golgi at his pathological institute.
- In 1909 Negri became a professor of bacteriology, and the first official instructor of bacteriology in Pavia.
- On 19 February 1912 he died of tuberculosis at age 35. Negri performed extensive research in the fields of histology, hematology, cytology, protozoology and hygiene.
- In 1903 he discovered the eponymous Negri bodies, defined as cytoplasmatic inclusion bodies located in the Purkinje cells of the cerebellum in cases of rabies in animals and humans.
- He documented his findings in an article titled Contributo allo studio dell'eziologia della rabia, published in the journal Bollettino della Societa medico-chirurgica.
- At the time, Negri mistakenly described the pathological agent of rabies as a parasitic protozoa.
- A few months later, Paul Remlinger (1871–1964) at the Constantinople Imperial Bacteriology Institute correctly demonstrated that the aetiological agent of rabies was not a protozoan, but a filterable virus. Negri went on, however, to demonstrate in 1906 that the smallpox vaccine, then known as "vaccine virus", or "variola vaccinae", was also a filterable virus.
- During the latter part of his career, he became interested in malaria and was at the forefront in efforts to eradicate it from Lombardy.
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