Émile Pierre-Marie van Ermengem (1851–1932) was a Belgian bacteriologist who, in 1895, isolated Clostridium botulinum, the bacterium that causes botulism...
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father, Émile van Ermengem, was the bacteriologist who discovered the cause of botulism. His younger brother was the writer François Maret (Frans van Ermengem)...
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poisoning, from the Latin word botulus, meaning 'sausage'. In 1895 Émile van Ermengem, a Belgian microbiologist, discovered what is now called Clostridium...
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professor Emile van Ermengem published his finding of an endospore-forming organism he isolated from spoiled ham. Biologists classified van Ermengem's discovery...
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as Frans van Ermengem or Frans Ermengem, was a Belgian poet, painter and art critic. He was the son of the bacteriologist Émile van Ermengem and the younger...
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below 4.9. C. botulinum was first recognized and isolated in 1895 by Emile van Ermengem from home-cured ham implicated in a botulism outbreak. The isolate...
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August – Émile Mathieu (born 1844), composer 27 August – Ursmer Berlière (born 1861), monastic historian 29 September – Émile van Ermengem (born 1851)...
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chicken. This organism was first recognized and isolated in 1895 by Emile van Ermengem from home cured ham implicated in a botulism outbreak. The isolate...
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