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7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

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Mycobacterium marinum Mycobacterium kansasii Mycobacterium avium Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Mycobacterium bovis Mycobacterium leprae Mycobacterium tuberculosis Mycobacterium ulcerans

Key People

Robert Koch.

Robert Koch

German bacteriologist

Smith, Theobald

Theobald Smith

American pathologist