Charles Mantoux

Charles Mantoux (1877 - 1947) is a Médecin French, the developer of the test éponyme of tracking Sérologique of the Tuberculose.

He made his studies with Paris and accepted the teaching of Broca. For health reasons, it left for Cannes but continued to work with for the long periods of vacation granted to the patients in the Sanatoriums.

In 1908, it presents its first study on the injections intradermales in front of Acédémie of Sciences and publit this work in 1910, and the following years the test intradermal replaces the test under cutaneous (Test Pirquet).

This, and other contributions to the field of the public health and radiology, was carried out with the variation of the large universities and institutions.

References

  • B.G. Firkin & J.A.Whitworth (1987). Dictionary off Medical Eponyms. Parthenon Publishing. ISBN 1-85070-333-7
  • syphilis Nervous Latent and the Merveux Marks of Syphilis. Paris, 1904.
  • Intradermal reaction of tuberculin. Reports of the Academy of Science, Paris, 1908,147,355-357.
  • Mantoux C. the intradermal reaction with tuberculin and its clinical interpretation. Press Méd 1910; 10-3.

See too

Test Mantoux

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