Talk:Casimir Davaine

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"Causative organism" and "responsible pathogen"
The article says : "He (Davaine) was able to identify the causative organism but unable to solve what created it. That was left to the German physician Robert Koch, who discovered the responsible pathogen."

What does "responsible pathogen" mean ? And what is "solving what created the causative organism" ? If I'm not wrong, the existence of an anthrax toxin was only demonstrated in 1954-1955. See W. Edmund Farrar, MD, « Anthrax: Virulence and Vaccines », Annals of internal medicine, 1 September 1994, vol. 121, Issue 5, p. 379-380, online or Todar's online textbook here. Marvoir (talk) 12:10, 14 December 2008 (UTC)