''Experimental Bacteriology: in Its Applications to the Diagnosis, Epidemiology, and Immunology of Infectious Diseases'' is a textbook on bacteriology and

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. It was one of the most authoritative works in medical microbiology in the first half of the 20th century. Aimed at medical students and practitioners, it has been published in ten/eleven editions in German, and in editions in French and English. The first edition appeared in 1906, written by Wilhelm Kolle and

Heinrich Hetsch Heinrich Hetsch (2 July 1873, Mainz – 3 December 1947, Bad Homburg) was a German physician and microbiologist. He is known as the original author, with Wilhelm Kolle, of the famous book ''Experimental Bacteriology'', one of the most authoritati ...

, and the book is frequently referred to as "Kolle-Hetsch." The eighth (1938) and ninth (1942) editions were edited by Hetsch and Hans Schlossberger. The last, significantly revised and largely newly written edition, numbered as a combined tenth and eleventh edition, was published in 1952 by Urban & Schwarzenberg (now Elsevier) with Hans Schlossberger as general editor, and with contributions from H. Brandis, B. Schmidt, H.G. Haussmann, , I. Weimershaus-Eckart, , A. Kutzsche and W. Weimershaus. Although Schlossberger was general editor, much of the editing work was done by Brandis. A French translation appeared in 1910, published by Doin,IDREF.fr
(bibliography) and an English edition was published in 1934 by

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Bibliography

* Wilhelm Kolle,

, ''Die experimentelle Bakteriologie und die Infektionskrankheiten mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Immunitätslehre. Ein Lehrbuch für Studierende, Ärzte und Medizinalbeamte'', Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1906 * Hans Schlossberger (general editor), ''Experimentelle Bakteriologie und Infektionskrankheiten; mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Immunitätslehre'', 10th/11th significantly revised edition, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1952 * Wilhelm Kolle, Heinrich Hetsch, ''La bactériologie expérimentale: appliquée à l'étude des maladies infectieuses'', translated by H. Carrière, Paris, Doin, 1910 * Wilhelm Kolle, Heinrich Hetsch, Dagny Erikson, John William Henry Eyre, ''Experimental Bacteriology in Its Applications to the Diagnosis, Epidemiology, and Immunology of Infectious Diseases'', London,

, 1934

References

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