Burgdorfer discovered Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease.

Evidence

What’s troubling, or at least puzzling, about the Lyme-tick story is that Willy Burgdorfer, the Swiss-born scientist who in 1982 discovered the causative agent of the disease and gave it its scientific name, Borrelia burgdorferi, was himself a germ warrior. … Burgdorfer worked at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton, Montana, which had a research contract with Camp Detrick. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 176

Categorization

• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 176