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In man typhus is characterized by a triade of symptoms: fever, rash, nervous symptoms. In animals, fever is the only sign of infection. The fact that the virus is localized more particularly in the brain explains the nervous symptoms to be found in our species. I demonstrated the characteristics of experimental fever.
Beginnings. Charles Jules Henry Nicolle was born into a middle-class family in the city of Rouen, France on September 21, 1866. Charles’s mother was Marie Louise Aline Louvrier. His father was Eugène Edouard Nicolle, a university professor and hospital doctor. The couple had three sons, all of whom enjoyed outstanding careers: Charles’s older brother Maurice became a renowned ...
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Scientific career. Fields. Bacteriology. Institutions. Pasteur Institute of Tunis. Charles Jules Henri Nicolle (21 September 1866 – 28 February 1936) [1] was a French bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus .
Charles Jules Henry Nicolle (September 21, 1866 Rouen - February 28, 1936) was a French bacteriologist who earned the 1928 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus.
Sep 21, 2017 · Charles Nicolle proceded to test his theory by infecting a chimpanzee with typhus. He then retrieved lice from the sick chimpanzee and placed it on a healthy one. Nicolle found that after 10 days the healthy chimpanzee was also infected with the disease. He repeated the experiment several times and became sure that lice were the carriers of typhus.
Charles Jules Henry Nicolle was born on 21 September 1866 in Rouen, France. His father, Eugène Nicolle, was a doctor at the local hospital and a lecturer in natural medical science. His mother was the daughter of a watchmaker in Bayeux. Charles was born second of his parent’s three sons. His elder brother Maurice grew up to be a physician.
CONSCIOUS of the great contribution of her scientists to the fields of medicine and public health, France commemorated last year the centenary of the birth of Dr. Charles Nicolle, one of the nobles...
