Formerly director Central Clinical and Public Health Laboratory, University of Leiden, Netherlands (b Ammanford 1923; q St Andrews 1946; MD, FRCPath), died from pneumonia on 11 June 2003.
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Jimmy Dunbar was a jovial pipe smoker and a lover of Rabbie Burns and single malt. During his doctoral research in 1947 he developed phage typing of Salmonella typhi. His first paper on the subject was published in Nature just one year after qualifying. He used this technique as a Royal Army Medical Corps national service officer in Egypt to identify the first biological attack on the modern British army. His major interest was tuberculosis at a time when great advances were being made in its treatment. In 1960 he became the foundation professor of microbiology at the University of Khartoum and in 1970 he founded the microbiology department at the University of Natal. Predeceased by a son, he leaves a wife, Olive; two children; and five grandchildren.
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