Max von Gruber (1853-1927) was an Austrian medical scientist and bacteriologist. In 1884 he became Associate Professor and Head of the Hygiene Institute at Graz. From 1887 he was Professor of Hygiene at Vienna. In 1896, with his British pupil Herbert Durham (1866-1945), he discovered "specific serum agglutinins" reactive with bacteria for immunological-diagnostic purposes; this he published in "Ueber active und passiv Immunitaet gegen Cholera und Typhus" in Wiener klinische Wochenschrift. Gruber's earlier work was on the distinctions between the Vibrio of Asiatic cholera and other forms such as "Finkler-Prior" and "Koch's Vibrio."


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