Maurice Neveu-Lemaire (24 September 1872 in

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– 4 May 1951 in

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) was a French physician and

parasitologist Parasitology is the study of parasites, their hosts, and the relationship between them. As a biological discipline, the scope of parasitology is not determined by the organism or environment in question but by their way of life. This means it ...

. After receiving his degree in

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(1895), he spent several years as an intern in marine laboratories at

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and

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, as well as performing duties as ''préparateur'' at the laboratory of parasitology in Paris. After receiving his medical doctorate, he participated as a physician and naturalist aboard the yacht ''Princesse Alice'' to the Canary Islands, Madeira, Cape Verde and the

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(1901-02). During the following year, he performed similar roles as part of the ''Créqui Montfort et Sénéchal de la Grange'' mission in

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(chronological biography) From 1904 to 1920, he was an associate professor to the faculty of medicine in

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, where for a number of years he gave lectures on parasitology. Afterwards, he was appointed ''chef des travaux de parasitologie'' to the faculty of medicine in Paris, and in 1926 he became a professor in the school of

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at the

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. During the 1920s, he conducted several scientific expeditions to the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa. In 1901 he described a family of parasitic

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s known as

Haemogregarinidae ''Adeleorina'' is a suborder of parasites in the phylum Apicomplexa. History Léger proposed this taxon in 1911. The first species identified was '' Dactylosoma ranarum'' by Lankester (1871) in a frog in Europe. It was initially called ''Unduli ...

. In 1924 he named several genera of parasites that affected large mammals (''Khalilia'', ''Paraquilonia'', ''Buissonia'', ''Henryella'').

Selected works

* ''Précis de parasitologie humaine'', 1906 - Outline of human parasitology. * ''Notes sur les mammiféres des hauts plateaux de l'Amérique du Sud'', 1911 - Notes on mammals native to the upper plateaus of South America. * ''Parasitologie des animaux domestiques, maladies parasitaires non bactériennes'', 1912 - Parasitology involving domesticated animals, etc. * ''Parasitologie des plantes agricoles'', 1913 - Parasitology involving agricultural plants. * ''Deux voyages cynégétiques et scientifiques en Afrique Occidentale Française, 1911–1914'', (1920) - Two exploratory and scientific voyages in French West Africa from 1911 to 1914. * ''Principes d'hygiéne et de médecine coloniales'', 1925 - Principles of

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and colonial medicine. * ''Traité d'helminthologie médicale et vétérinaire'', 1936 - Treatise of medical and veterinary

helminthology Helminthology is the study of parasitic worms (helminths). The field studies the Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy of helminths and their effects on their host (biology), hosts. The origin of the first compound of the word is the Greek ''wikt:ἕλ� ...

. * ''Traité d'entomologie médicale et vétérinaire'', 1938 - Treatise of medical and veterinary entomology. * ''Traité de protozoologie médicale et vétérinaire'', 1943 - Treatise of medical and veterinary

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(publications) In 1923, with

Émile Brumpt Alexandre Joseph Émile Brumpt (10 March 1877, in Paris – 8 July 1951) was a French parasitologist. He studied zoology and parasitology in Paris, obtaining his degree in science in 1901, and his medical doctorate in 1906. In 1919 he succeeded ...

and Maurice Langeron, he founded the journal ''Les Annales de Parasitologie humaine et comparée''.

References

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