CALMETTE, Léon Charles Albert (1863 – 1933)

1894 CE

#2107

Contribution à l’étude du vénin des serpents.

Calmette carried out extensive investigations on the immunization of animals to venoms. He obtained antivenom sera with therapeutic properties.

1895 CE

#5127

La peste bubonique. By Alexandre Yersin with L.C.A. Calmette and A. Borrel.

Successful inoculation of animals with anti-plague vaccine.

1896 CE

#2109

Le vénin des serpents.

1905 CE–1908 CE

#1634

Recherches sur l’épuration biologique et chimique des eaux d’égout. 8 vols.

1907 CE

#2337

Sur un nouveau procédé de diagnostic de la tuberculose chez l’homme par l’ophtalmo-reaction à la tuberculine.

Calmette’s conjunctival reaction test for tuberculosis.

1917 CE

#4649

Quarante cas d’encéphalo-myélite subaiguë.

Cruchet’s account of epidemic encephalitis was given on 27 April 1917, preceding that of Economo by 13 days. With F. Moutier

1924 CE

#2343

Essai d’immunisation contre l’infection tuberculeuse.

B.C.G. (Bacille Calmette–Guérin) vaccine was first produced in 1906 and subcultured for 13 years. It was first used as a prophylactic against tuberculosis in children in 1921. It remains in use. See also …

1927 CE

#11994

La vaccination préventive contre la tuberculose par le "BGG". Par Albert Calmette avec la collaboration de C. Guérin, A. Boquet et L. Nègre.

A 250-page monograph, with bibliographical references, on the development of the BCG vaccine from M. bovis, from 1909 to 1927 by the scientists involved. (Thanks to Ron Cox for this reference.)

1927 CE

#2346

Sur la vaccination préventive des enfants nouveau-nés contre la tuberculose par le B.C.G.

2026 CE

#14354

Discovery of a handwritten laboratory notebook by Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin describing experimental studies and development of the BCG vaccine for tuberculosis

"Abstract: Background: The Bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine against tuberculosis is the most widespread vaccine in the world. Discovered by French investigators Albert Calmette and Camille Gué…