1858–1947 French military doctor ranking General and Pasteurien who discovered the role of the rat flea in the transmission of bubonic plague.
Keywords: Coccidia; Plasmodium; plague; flea; yellow fever; mosquito; orchids
Simond, Paul‐Louis
PT Brey, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
M Simond, Mens (Isère), France
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002480
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Figure 1. Paul-Louis Simond (1858–1947). Photograph courtesy of Institut Pasteur Photographic Archives.
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| Further Reading | |
| Simond P-L (1897) Histoire naturelle du microbe du paludisme d'après les études comparatives faites chez les coccidies. Archives de Médecine Navale 68: 40–59. | |
| Simond P-L (1898) La propagation de la Peste. Annales de l'Institut Pasteur 12: 625–687. | |
| Simond P-L and Marchoux E (1905) La transmission héréditaire du virus de la Fièvre Jaune chez le Stegomya fasciata. Bulletin de la Société de Biologie 59: 259–260. | |
| Simond P-L, Marchoux E and Salimbeni A (1903) La Fièvre Jaune. Rapport de la mission française au Brésil. Annales de l'Institut Pasteur 17: 665–731. | |
| Crawford EA (1996) Paul-Louis Simond and his work on plague. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Chicago 39 (3): 446–458. | |
| Gross L (1995) How the plague bacillus and its transmission through fleas were discovered: Reminiscences from my years at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 92: 7609–7611. | |
| Simond M, Godley M and Mouriquand P (1998) Paul-Louis Simond and his discovery of plague transmission by rat fleas: a centenary. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 91: 101–104. | |
| Voelckel J (1969) La vie et l'oeuvre de P.L. Simond. Medecine Tropicale 29: 429–441. | |
