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This was true, for example, of Robert Koch,
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who came, made a voyage, to Italy
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to study parasitology in the form of malaria,
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and then set off for the colonial world.
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Pasteur at this time had just died,
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but his institute saw affiliates or satellite institutes
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set up at Saigon, at Tunis, Algiers, in the 1890s,
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all preaching the new discipline of tropical medicine.
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And Pasteur's most famous and able disciple, mIle Roux,
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became a specialist in this new discipline.
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To understand it, we need to remember two major breakthroughs.
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The first was by Patrick Manson in 1883.