French biologist
Amédée Marie Vincent Borrel (1 August 1867 – 14 September 1936) was a French physician and microbiologist born in Cazouls-lès-Béziers , Hérault .
Biography
Borrel studied natural sciences and medicine at the University of Montpellier , where he earned his degree in 1890. From 1892 to 1895, Borrel worked in the laboratory of Ilya Ilyich Metchnikoff (1845–1916) at the Pasteur Institute in Paris . Here he performed research of tuberculosis , and with Alexandre Yersin (1863–1943) and Léon Charles Albert Calmette (1863–1933), he worked on a vaccine against bubonic plague . With Yersin and Calmette, he co-published the treatise Le microbe de la peste à bubons concerning the plague bacillus . He is also credited for pioneer investigations on the viral theory of cancer .[ 1]
From 1896 to 1914 he served as laboratory chief of the microbiology course at the Pasteur Institute. In 1919 he attained the chair of bacteriology at the University of Strasbourg .
A genus of bacteria called Borrelia borreliosis (i.e., Lyme disease) . Moreover, "Borrel bodies", which are tiny virus-containing granules that cluster to form "Bollinger bodies", are found in tissue cells of fowlpox . (Bollinger bodies are named after German pathologist Otto Bollinger [1843–1909]).
In 1900 Borrel became a member of the Société de biologie World War I , Borrel developed one of the earliest known gas masks .
Borrel's birthplace in Cazouls-lès-Béziers
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