Alfred Whitmore

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Major Alfred Whitmore (16 May 1876–1946) was an English pathologist who, together with C.S. Krishnaswami, identified Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis (also known as "Whitmore's disease"), in opium addicts in Rangoon in 1911. He differentiated it from Burkholderia mallei, the causative agent of glanders, by clinical and microbiological features.{{cite journal |last1=Savelkoel |first1=Jelmer |last2=Dance |first2=David A.B. |title=Alfred Whitmore and the Discovery of Melioidosis |journal=Emerging Infectious Diseases |date=April 2024 |volume=30 |issue=4 |pages=752–756 |doi=10.3201/eid3004.230693 |doi-access=free |pmc=10977855 }}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZWcGAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT178|title=Tropical Diseases: A Practical Guide for Medical Practitioners and Students|last1=Meunier|first1=Yann A.|last2=Hole|first2=Michael|last3=Shumba|first3=Takudzwa|last4=Swanner|first4=B. J.|date=2013|publisher=Oxford University Press USA|isbn=9780199997909|location=|pages=163|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=olK-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA529|title=Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930|volume=2|edition=Reprint of 1930 version|last=Crawford|first=D. G.|date=2012|publisher=Andrews UK Limited|isbn=9781781502310|language=en|page=529}}

He was initially a Captain, and later a Major, in the Indian Medical Service. Later, he also became director of the Rangoon Medical School.