Jacques Achille Marie Euzéby (11 August 1920 – 16 April 2010) was a French parasitologist, born in

Bagnols-sur-Cèze Bagnols-sur-Cèze (, "Bagnols-on-Cèze"; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Gard Departments of France, department in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania Regions of France, region in Southern France. History A small regiona ...

. Euzéby specialized in the study of parasites (including the

Apicomplexa The Apicomplexa (also called Apicomplexia; single: apicomplexan) are organisms of a large phylum of mainly parasitic alveolates. Most possess a unique form of organelle structure that comprises a type of non-photosynthetic plastid called an ap ...

and fungi) and parasitic diseases. Euzéby was granted the Emile Brumpt Award and the WAAVP Award. He was the father of Alain Euzéby, an economist, and Jean P. Euzéby, a microbiologist specialising in

bacterial taxonomy Bacterial taxonomy is subfield of taxonomy devoted to the classification of bacteria specimens into taxonomic ranks. Archaeal taxonomy are governed by the same rules. In the scientific classification established by Carl Linnaeus, each species is ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Euzeby, Jacques 1920 births 2010 deaths People from Bagnols-sur-Cèze French parasitologists