Camille Guérin

Jean -Marie Camille Guérin ( born December 22, 1872 in Poitiers, † June 9, 1961 in Paris) was a French veterinarian, bacteriologist and immunologist. Among other things, according to him, the bacillus Calmette- Guérin (BCG ) is named.

Guérin grew up in modest circumstances. His father died in 1882 of tuberculosis. His mother's marriage to a veterinary influenced his career choice. After he received his baccalaureate in 1891, he attended the prestigious Veterinary School in Maisons -Alfort. In his studies, he was sustained by the animal pathologist and bacteriologist Nocard Edmond (1850-1903) influenced.

After an initial decision for veterinary medicine in 1897, he joined Albert Calmette at Pasteur Institute in Lille. Thereafter he devoted himself to vaccine research. In 1919 he moved with Calmette for the Institut Pasteur in Paris, where in 1921 the BCG vaccine has been developed for human use.

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• Veterinarian
• Immunologist
• Physician ( 20th century )
• Tuberculosis
• Frenchman
• Born in 1872
• Died in 1961
• Man