Name Alfred Boquet | Died 1947 | |
Alfred Boquet (26 December 1879 – 3 June 1947) was a French veterinarian and biologist born in Cires-lès-Mello.
In 1901 he graduated from veterinary school in Toulouse, spending the following years (1902-1910) as a government veterinary health employee in Algeria. In 1911 he began work as a veterinarian at the Pasteur Institute in Algiers, afterwards being promoted to chef de laboratoire (1913). From 1919 to 1931 he was laboratory chief (tuberculosis services) at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where he later served as head of tuberculosis services from 1931 to 1947.
At the Pasteur Institute in Algiers he participated in development of the "anticlaveleux-vaccine", a vaccine used for rapid vaccination of millions of sheep in North Africa and Europe. In Algiers with Léopold Nègre (1879-1961), he conducted research on epizootic lymphangitis, a disease affecting horses and mules caused by Cryptococcus farciminosus.
In Paris he performed studies on Mycobacterium tuberculosis, pseudo-tuberculosis of rodents, the bubonic plague in humans, ulcerative lymphangitis, paratuberculosis in cattle and anthrax. With Léopold Nègre he developed antigène méthylique (antigen-methyl) for treatment of tuberculosis.
He became a member of the Société de biologie in 1919, a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1923 (officer, 1939), general secretary of the Annales de l'Institut Pasteur in 1928 and a member of the Académie de Médecine (veterinary division) in 1947.