# Otto Busse > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Otto_Busse > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Otto_Busse.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Busse > Source revision: 1352037457 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|German pathologist (1867–1922)}} thumb|Otto Busse {{About|the pathologist|the resistance fighter|Otto Busse (resistance fighter)}} '''Otto Emil Franz Ulrich Busse''' ({{IPA|de|ˈɔtoː ˈbʊsə|pron|De-Otto Busse.ogg}}; 6 December 1867 – 3 February 1922) was a German [pathologist](/source/pathologist). Busse was born in [Gühlitz](/source/G%C3%BClitz-Reetz), [Kingdom of Prussia](/source/Kingdom_of_Prussia).{{Cite book|author=Peter Friedli|chapter=Busse, Otto Emil Franz Ulrich|title=Neue Deutsche Biographie|volume=3|year=1957|page= 76|url=http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd129753483.html}} He studied medicine at the [University of Greifswald](/source/University_of_Greifswald), and subsequently became an assistant to [Paul Grawitz](/source/Paul_Grawitz) (1850–1932), (his future father-in-law) at [Greifswald](/source/Greifswald). Afterwards he moved to Posen (today [Poznań](/source/Pozna%C5%84), Poland), where in 1904 he became a professor of pathology. From 1911 until 1922 he was professor of [pathological anatomy](/source/pathological_anatomy) at the [University of Zurich](/source/University_of_Zurich), where he died. In 1894 Busse was the first to provide a written account of [cryptococcosis](/source/cryptococcosis), caused by a yeast-like [fungus](/source/fungus) now known as ''[Cryptococcus neoformans](/source/Cryptococcus_neoformans)''. This he discovered in a patient with chronic [periostitis](/source/periostitis) of the [tibia](/source/tibia). At the time he called the fungus ''Saccharomyces hominis''. During the same time period, Francesco Sanfelice cultured the yeast-like fungus from [peach](/source/peach) juice, naming the fungus ''Saccharomyces neoformans''.[https://books.google.com/books?id=Sjvw_UrxDL8C&dq=Busse++%22Saccharomyces+hominis%22&pg=PA231 Clinical Mycology] by Elias J. Anaissie, Michael R. McGinnis, Michael A. Pfaller[https://books.google.com/books?id=bnWQsv2eTcEC&dq=%22Saccharomyces+neoformans%22&pg=PA660 The Yeasts, a Taxonomic Study] by C. P. Kurtzman, Jack W. Fell Infection caused by the fungus has also been referred to as "Busse-Buschke disease", named in conjunction with [dermatologist](/source/dermatologist) [Abraham Buschke](/source/Abraham_Buschke) (1868–1943). ==See also== *[Hanns von Meyenburg](/source/Hanns_von_Meyenburg) == References == {{reflist}} == External links == * [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&list_uids=7854363&cmd=Retrieve&indexed=google NCBI] One hundred years of cryptococcosis. Medical mycology in the 19th century in Greifswald * [https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://home.arcor.de/prignitzportal/citizen/seite_busse_otto.htm&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=9&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Otto%2BBusse%2522%2B1867%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG PrignitzLexikon] (translated biography of Otto Busse) * [http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/1793.html ''Busse-Buschke disease''] @ [Who Named It](/source/Who_Named_It) {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Busse, Otto}} Category:German pathologists Category:1867 births Category:1922 deaths Category:People from Białogard Category:University of Greifswald alumni Category:Academic staff of the University of Greifswald Category:Academic staff of the University of Zurich Category:Medical doctors from the Province of Brandenburg Category:20th-century German medical doctors Category:20th-century German scientists {{Germany-med-bio-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Otto Busse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Busse) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Busse?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.