Otto Busse

{{Short description|German pathologist}}

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Otto Emil Franz Ulrich Busse ({{IPA|de|ˈɔtoː ˈbʊsə|pron|De-Otto Busse.ogg}}; 6 December 1867 – 3 February 1922) was a German pathologist. Busse was born in Gühlitz, 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, and subsequently became an assistant to Paul Grawitz (1850–1932), (his future father-in-law) at Greifswald. Afterwards he moved to Posen (today Poznań, Poland), where in 1904 he became a professor of pathology. From 1911 until 1922 he was professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Zurich, where he died.

In 1894 Busse was the first to provide a written account of cryptococcosis, caused by a yeast-like fungus now known as Cryptococcus neoformans. This he discovered in a patient with chronic periostitis of the tibia. At the time he called the fungus Saccharomyces hominis. During the same time period, Francesco Sanfelice cultured the yeast-like fungus from 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 Abraham Buschke (1868–1943).