Edmund Weil

He conducted this research during World War I and died from an accidental typhus infection in his laboratory.

Weil was born in Stráž, son of merchant Simon and Adelheid née Kohner.

It involves placing patient's serum in a suspension with enteric bacteria (Proteus sp.).

The antibodies formed against rickettsia react with the bacteria but the test is no longer used due to its non-specificity.

When a colleague, Friedrick Brienl accidentally sprayed some rickettsia while injecting a laboratory animal and it is thought that Weil too contracted a form of typhus and died at the Institute of Hygiene where he worked.