New Bacteria Named After Brazilian Scientist
A new species of bacteria has been discovered, thanks to an American tourist who caught it while traveling in Peru. Dr. Jane Koehler, an infectious-disease specialist who led the team that found the species, named it Bartonella Rochalimae, after a long-dead Brazilian scientist.
Back in 1992, the scientist's name was removed from another bacteria, due to research by Koehler that determined that the bacteria was from a different family. Koehler, who works at the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center, tells NPR's Rebecca Roberts that the new name is her way of making it up to him.
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