English biologist (Fig. 1), discoverer (1910) of the life cycle of the plague bacillus in the pest flea Xenopsylla cheopis. During World War I, he described the agents of the trench fever (Rickettsia wolhynica). He died in 1922 from louse-borne spotted fever (Rickettsia prowazekii).
Arthur W. Bacot in his midyears as director of the Lister Institute in London
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Mehlhorn, H. (2016). Bacot, Arthur William (†1922). In: Mehlhorn, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parasitology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27769-6_347-2
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