Laveran, Charles Louis Alphonse
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Laveran,
Charles Louis Alphonse, French protozoologist, 1845-1922, winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine for his discovery of a protozoan as the cause of malaria.Medical Eponyms © Farlex 2012
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French physician Dr
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran discovered the malaria parasite in Algeria in 1880.
In 1880,
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran observed pigmented parasites in the blood of an Algerian soldier and realized that the parasites, not the patient, produce "malaria pigment." The term "hemozoin" was coined by Louis Westenra Sambon.
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