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Solomon Faine
New Zealand-born microbiologist (1926–2021)
Solomon Faine (17 August 1926 – 4 February 2021) was a New Zealand-born microbiologist known for his research on leptospirosis. With Dr. Leopold Kirschner, Faine made early epidemiologic descriptions of leptospirosis as an occupational disease of dairy farmers in New Zealand.[1] The intermediate Leptospira species Leptospira fainei is named in his honor.[2]