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Who named the infectious tobacco extract “Contagium vivum fluidum”?

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M. W. Beijerinck showed that extract from infected tobacco plants could infect healthy plants. He called the infectious fluid “Contagium vivum fluidum,” meaning infectious living fluid.

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