He worked with Pasteur and came up, by chance, with a vaccine for chicken cholera.
In animals it can originate fulminant septicaemia (chicken cholera), but is also a common commensal.
Used to make chicken cholera and anthrax "vaccines" (Louis Pasteur)
From his research, he conducted important investigations of chicken cholera, septicemia and tuberculosis.
Later I learned that chicken cholera was the villain, but by then it was too late.
In 1880, Pasteur was playing with the very tiny microbe that kills chickens with a malady known as chicken cholera.
Pasteur's later work on diseases included work on chicken cholera.
Pasteurella was first described around 1880 and thought to be associated with chicken cholera and hemorrhagic septicemia in animals.
While there, he investigated the use of chicken cholera bacillus in an attempt to eradicate the country's rabbit infestation.
Then in 1929 a chicken cholera epidemic wiped the flock out in a matter of weeks.