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Recherches experimentales sur le typhus exanthématique.

Publication Details

Ann. Inst. Pasteur, 24, 243-75; , 25, 97-144; 26, 250-80, 332-50. 1910 CE–1911 CE; 1912 CE.

Nicolle demonstrated the transmission of typhus by the body louse Pediculus corporis. He also produced the disease in monkeys and guinea-pigs by the injection of infected blood. Preliminary communication in C. R. Acad. Sci. (Paris), 1909, 149, 486-89.

In 1928 Nicolle was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery that typhus is transmitted by the body louse."

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Geographic Context

Mentioned in annotation: Paris