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Louis Herbert Manceaux (1865–1934) was a French physician, parasitologist, and co-discover of Toxoplasma gondii with Charles Nicolle in 1908. Biography. Manceaux's life is not well known, but he was physician-scientist recruited by Charles Nicolle to study at the Pasteur Institute of Tunis.
One hundred years ago Charles Nicolle and Louis Manceaux published the definitive description of the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii (Nicolle and Manceaux, 1909). Although this publication represents the authoritative definition of T. gondii , it was founded on their earlier attempts, and those of Alfonso Splendore, to classify this ...
- James W. Ajioka, Naomi S. Morrissette
- 2009
Jul 1, 2009 · The scientists recognized as first describing Toxoplasma are Charles Jules Henry Nicolle (1866–1936) and Louis Herbert Manceaux (1865–1934) who were based in Tunisia and Alfonso Splendore (1871–1953) who worked in Brazil.
- Naomi S. Morrissette, James W. Ajioka
- 2009
Nov 22, 2013 · When Charles Nicolle, Louis Manceaux and Alfonso Splendore first described Toxoplasma gondii in 1908, their depiction of the parasite was similar and very detailed [1,2]. Both papers, presented days apart, describe T. gondii as a parasite found both inside and outside of nucleated cells, never in red blood cells, having a rounded or piriform ...
- Kathryn E McGovern, Emma H Wilson
- 10.1186/1756-3305-6-334
- 2013
- Parasit Vectors. 2013; 6: 334.
In 1908, while working at the Pasteur Institute in Tunis, Charles Nicolle and Louis Manceaux discovered a protozoan organism in the tissues of a hamster-like rodent known as the gundi, Ctenodactylus gundi.
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Feb 25, 2009 · One hundred years ago Charles Nicolle and Louis Manceaux published the definitive description of the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii (Nicolle and Manceaux, 1909). Although this publication represents the authoritative definition of T. gondii , it was founded on their earlier attempts, and those of Alfonso Splendore, to classify this ...
Feb 7, 2019 · Focussing on the works of microbiologist Charles Nicolle (1866–1936) and on that of physician and zoologist Hervé Harant (1901–1986), I argue that French “medical ecology” was not professionally (or cognitively) insulated from some major trends in parasitology, especially in Tunis where disciplinary borders in the medical sciences collapsed.
