Dr. Marcel Baltazard (1908-1971), French scientist and former director of Pasteur Institute of Iran, is known in the international arena due to his research on the control of infectious diseases such as plague, rabies, relapsing fever, leprosy, smallpox and tuberculosis. Dr. Baltazard also played a significant role in the launch of vaccination against tuberculosis, cholera and smallpox. Dr. Baltazard's spent the first 13 years of academic life at Pasteur Institute of Casablanca, Morocco, and then 20 years at Pasteur Institute of Iran and over the last five years at Pasteur Institute of Paris. In this paper, the activities of this important and influential researcher in the field of health and medicine are addressed.
BT - Archives of Iranian medicine C1 -http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28846021?dopt=Abstract
IS - 8 J2 - Arch Iran Med LA - eng N1 -With the help of leading research institutes in France, the USA and Russia, Baltazard established centers for reception and treatment of leprosy patients in Mashhad, Tabriz and Tehran.
N2 -Dr. Marcel Baltazard (1908-1971), French scientist and former director of Pasteur Institute of Iran, is known in the international arena due to his research on the control of infectious diseases such as plague, rabies, relapsing fever, leprosy, smallpox and tuberculosis. Dr. Baltazard also played a significant role in the launch of vaccination against tuberculosis, cholera and smallpox. Dr. Baltazard's spent the first 13 years of academic life at Pasteur Institute of Casablanca, Morocco, and then 20 years at Pasteur Institute of Iran and over the last five years at Pasteur Institute of Paris. In this paper, the activities of this important and influential researcher in the field of health and medicine are addressed.
PY - 2017 SP - 553 EP - 557 T2 - Archives of Iranian medicine TI - Remembering Marcel Baltazard, Great Researcher and the French President of Pasteur Institute of Iran. VL - 20 SN - 1735-3947 ER -