Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was a French physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases s
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Laveran's drawing in his 1880 notebook showing different stages of Plasmodium falciparum from fresh blood.
Cartoon of Laveran slaying insects
Grave at Cimetière du Montparnasse
Mosquito-malaria theory
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The mosquito-malaria theory was a scientific theory developed in the latter half of the 19th century that solved the question of how malaria was transmitted. The theory proposed that malaria was trans
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
…accepted only after five years when Camillo Golgi confirmed the parasite using better microscope and staining technique. Laveran was a supporter of the mosquito-malaria theory developed by British physician Patrick Manson in 1894, and experimentally proved by Ronald Ross in 1898. Based on this medical development, he reported…
Transmission of malaria parasites between mosquito and human.
The page in Ross' notebook where he recorded the "pigmented bodies" in mosquitoes that he later identified as malaria parasites