René Dujarric de la Rivière (19 April 1885 – 28 November 1969) was a French

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and

hygienist Hygiene is a series of practices performed to preserve health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), "Hygiene refers to conditions and practices that help to maintain health and prevent the spread of diseases." Personal hygiene refer ...

. He studied medicine in Bordeaux and Lyon, then for several years worked as a medical extern at the Hospitals Necker and Ténon in Paris (1905–10). In 1913 he received his medical doctorate, and in 1929, obtained his doctorate in natural sciences. From 1945 to 1958 he was an assistant director of the Pasteur Institute.Repères chronologiques / René Dujarric de la Rivière (1885-1969)
Service des Archives de l'Institut Pasteur. In 1918 he demonstrated that

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was caused by a filterable agent that was in all probability a virus. In the 1920s he performed research of ''

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'' (death cap mushroom) in

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's laboratory at the Sorbonne, producing an antitoxic serum (''serum antiphallinique'') as a result. In 1927, at the Pasteur Institute, he established a center for the study of blood groups. In 1930, with

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, he founded the ''Société Internationale de Microbiologie''. He was a member of the

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(from 1928), the

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(from 1945, department of hygiene) and in 1951, was appointed president of the

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Selected works

*''Hygiène hospitalière'' (with Louis Martin), 1927. *''Étiologie et prophylaxie de la grippe : bacille de Pfeiffer, virus filtrant grippal'', 1929. *''Etude physiologique d'un extrait d'amanite phalloïde'', 1929. *''Le poison des amanites mortelles'', 1933. *''Les groupes sanguins'', 1936. *''Les champignons toxiques; caractères et détermination; toxines, intoxications, thérapeutique'' (with Roger Heim), 1938. *''Les groupes sanguins chez les animaux; individualités sanguine et tissulaire'' (with André Eyquem), 1953.WorldCat Search
published works

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