Alberto Barton
Alberto Barton, was a Peruvian microbiologist who discovered the etiologic agent of Carrions disease or Oroya fever. The bacteria was named Bartonella bacilliformis, in his honor.
Alberto Leonardo Barton Thompson was the fourth of nine brothers. His father was a Uruguayan chemist, Ralph John Barton Wild born at Montevideo, Uruguay,December 1834 of English ancestors, and his mother Anastasia Francisca Augusta del Sagrado Corazn de Jess Thompson, born at Buenos Aires,December 1843, both traveled to Peru in 1874.
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