Xenophont Andreev Ivanov ( bg, Ксенофонт Андреев Иванов) (6 September 1898 – 22 January 1967) was a
Bulgarian veterinary scholar of
pathological morphology.
He earned a degree in veterinary medicine in
Berlin in 1925. He was dean of the faculty of Veterinary Medicine from 1945 to 1948 and was the first
rector
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of the Agricultural Academy from 1948 to 1953 in Sofia.
Ivanov was also the founding director of the Institute of Comparative Animal Pathology, which is a predecessor to today's Institute of Experimental Pathology and Parasitology. Beginning in 1952, he was a full member (
academician) of the
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
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. He also served on the editorial board of ''Pathologia Veterinaria''.
Ivanov's research focused on linguatulosis, sheep pox,
equine infectious anaemia
Equine infectious anemia or equine infectious anaemia (EIA), also known by horsemen as swamp fever, is a horse disease caused by a retrovirus (''Equine infectious anemia virus'') and transmitted by bloodsucking insects. The virus (''EIAV'') is en ...
, bovine enzootic
pneumonia, and osteomyelosclerosis in
poultry.
External links
Institute of Experimental Pathology and Parasitology
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People from Ruse, Bulgaria
Bulgarian veterinarians
Members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
1898 births
1967 deaths
Bulgarian pathologists