Amédée Borrel

Amédée Borrel

Amédée Borrel (1867-1936) was a French biologist who was born in Cazouls-lès-Béziers. He studied natural sciences at the University of Montpellier, where he earned his degree in 1890. In 1919 he attained the chair of bacteriology at the University of Strasbourg.

From 1892 until 1895, Borrel worked in the laboratory of Ilya Ilyich Metchnikoff (1845-1916) at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Here he performed research of tuberculosis, and with Alexandre Yersin (1863-1943) and Léon Charles Albert Calmette (1863-1933) worked on a vaccine against bubonic plague. With Yersin and Calmette, he co-published the treatise "Le microbe de la peste à bubons" regarding the plague bacillus. Borrel is also credited for pioneer work concerning the viral theory of cancer.

A genus of bacteria called "Borrelia" is named after Amédée Borrel, as are "Borrel bodies", which are tiny virus-containing granules that cluster to form "Bollinger bodies", which in turn are found in tissue cells of fowlpox. Bollinger bodies are named after German pathologist Otto Bollinger (1843-1909). During World War I, Borrel developed one of the earliest known gas masks.


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  • borrel body — bəˈrel , bȯˈ noun Usage: usually capitalized 1st B Etymology: after Amédée Borrel died 1936 French bacteriologist : one of the particles included in a Bollinger body, believed to be actual units of the virus of fowl pox …   Useful english dictionary

  • borrel's blue — bəˈrelz , bȯˈ noun Usage: usually capitalized 1st B Etymology: after Amédée Borrel : a stain made by adding methylene blue to silver oxide and used in parasitology …   Useful english dictionary

  • Borrel — Amédée, French bacteriologist, 1867–1936. See B. blue stain …   Medical dictionary

  • Borrel body — Bor·rel body bə rel , bȯr el n one of the particles making up a Bollinger body Bor·rel bȯr el Amédée (1867 1936) French bacteriologist. With Albert L. C. Calmette, Borrel developed in 1895 a vaccine for use against bubonic plague. In 1898 he… …   Medical dictionary

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