Charles Mantoux

Charles Mantoux

Charles Mantoux (1877 - 1947) was a French physician, the developer of the eponymous serological test for tuberculosis.

He graduated from the University of Paris where he studied under Broca. For health reasons he relocated to Cannes but continued to work in Paris during the long vacation periods granted to patients in sanatoriums.

In 1908 he presented his first study of intradermal injections to the French Academy of Sciences and published this work in 1910, and in the following years the intradermal test replaced the subcutaneous test (Pirquet test).

This, and other contributions to Public health and radiology, was done away from major universities and institutions.

References

  • B.G. Firkin & J.A.Whitworth (1987). Dictionary of Medical Eponyms. Parthenon Publishing. ISBN 1-85070-333-7
  • La syphilis Nerveuse Latente et les Stigmates Merveux de la Syphilis. Paris, 1904.
  • Intradermo-reaction de la tuberculine. Comptes rendus de l’Académie des sciences, Paris, 1908, 147, 355-357.

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  • Mantoux — n. Charles Mantoux (1877 1947), French physician after whom the Mantoux test was named …   English contemporary dictionary

  • Mantoux test — [ mɒMantoux testtu:, mantu:] noun Medicine a skin test for immunity to tuberculosis using the injection of tuberculin. Origin 1930s: named after the French physician Charles Mantoux …   English new terms dictionary

  • Mantoux test — noun Etymology: Charles Mantoux died 1947 French physician Date: circa 1923 an intradermal test for hypersensitivity to tuberculin that indicates past or present infection with tubercle bacilli …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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