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Eugen Woldemar Bostroem (13 October 1850 – 24 May 1928) was aBaltic Germanpathologist. He was born inFellin (now known as Viljandi) in theLivonian Governorate of theRussian Empire (present-dayEstonia).
He studied medicine at the universities ofLeipzig andErlangen, receiving his degree in 1876. Afterwards, he was an assistant toFriedrich Albert von Zenker (1825–1898) at the pathology institute in Erlangen. From 1883 to 1926, he was a professor of generalpathology andpathological anatomy inGießen.
In 1890, Bostroem reportedly isolated the causative organism ofactinomycosis from a culture of grain, grasses, and soil. Following Bostroem's discovery, there was a general misconception that actinomycosis was amycosis affecting individuals who chewed grass orstraw. The agents of actinomycosis are now known to beendogenous organisms of the mucous membranes, most commonlyActinomyces israelii, a species named aftersurgeonJames Israel, who first discovered its presence in humans in the late 1870s.
In 1883, Bostroem was the first to describe a rare condition known assplenogonadal fusion. Since his discovery, approximately only 150 cases have been documented.
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