Piqueras Mercè
Catalan Association for Science Communication (ACCC), Barcelona, Spain.
Int Microbiol. 2007 Sep;10(3):217-26.
The history of science contains many cases of researchers who have died because of their professional activity. In the field of microbiology, some have died or have come close to death from infection by agents that were the subject of their research (Table 1). Infections that had a lethal outcome were usually accidental. Sometimes, however, researchers inoculated themselves with the pathogen or did not take preventive measures against the potential pathogen because they wanted to prove their hypotheses--or disprove someone else's--regarding the origin of the infection. Here is an overview of several episodes in the history of microbiology since the mid nineteenth century involving researchers or workers in fields related to microbiology who have become infected. They are considered here in their historical context to provide insights into some of the pillars of modern microbiology--The giants on whose shoulders several generations of microbiologists have stood to see further.
科学史上有许多研究人员因职业活动而死亡的案例。在微生物学领域，一些人因感染他们所研究的病原体而死亡或濒临死亡（表1）。导致致命后果的感染通常是意外发生的。然而，有时研究人员会给自己接种病原体，或者没有针对潜在病原体采取预防措施，因为他们想证明自己关于感染起源的假设——或者反驳其他人的假设。以下是自19世纪中叶以来微生物学史上的几个事件概述，涉及微生物学相关领域中被感染的研究人员或工作者。在此从历史背景的角度对这些事件进行考量，以便深入了解现代微生物学的一些支柱——几代微生物学家站在其肩膀上得以看得更远的巨人。
