André Alfred Lemierre - bibliography

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Biography

French bacteriologist, born July 30, 1875, Paris; died 1956.

Bibliography

  • Néphrites chroniques au cours de la gestation. Paris, 1924.
  • Infections colibacillaires au cours de la gestation et de la puerpéralite. Paris, 1824.
  • Néphrites chroniques et gestation.
    With Georges Fernand Isidore Widal (1862-1929). Paris, 1925.
  • Maladies des reins. Paris, 1929.
  • On certain septicaemias due to anaerobic organisms. The Lancet 1936, 1: 701-703
  • Sur une nouvelle fièvre par morsure de rat.
    With J. Reilly, A. Laporte and M. Morin.
    Bulletin de l'Académie de médecine, Paris. 3. séries, 1937, 117: 705-713.
    The authors isolated Streptobacillus moniliformis from a case of rat-bite fever.
  • Lemierre was co-publisher of the 8 volume Pratique medico-chirurgicale.

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