biography
pronunciation:
[seemõ]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1858–1947)
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| biography:
| Bacteriologist, born in Beaufort-sur-Gervanne, Drôme, France. He studied medicine at Bordeaux, and later joined the Pasteur Institute in Paris (1895–7) where he worked with Yersin, discoverer of the plague bacillus (1894). Simond's subsequent work showed that plague is primarily a disease of rats spread by rat fleas which transmit the disease to humans. |
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