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2 unusual facts about Félix Mesnil


Félix Mesnil

Member of the French Commission on sleeping sickness, he worked for the organisation of the mission in French Equatorial Africa.

In 1903, together with Alphonse Laveran (1845–1922), he showed that the parasite responsible for the visceral leishmaniasis (or Kala-azar, a fever in India), first described by William Boog Leishman (1865–1926), is a new protozoa, different from Trypanosoma, the agent of the sleeping sickness, and from Plasmodium, the agent of paludism (malaria).


Camille Delezenne

In 1902 Delezenne became a member of the Société de biologie, in 1903 he was co-founder of the Bulletin de l'Institut Pasteur with Amédée Borrel (1867-1936), Félix Mesnil (1868-1938), Gabriel Bertrand (1867–1962), Alexandre Besredka (1870–1940) and Auguste-Charles Marie (1864-1935), and in 1910 became a professor at the Pasteur Institute.


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