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Geographic Distribution of the Sickle-Cell Mutation Geographic Distribution of the Sickle-Cell Mutation
Charles Laveran Charles Laveran
Sir Ronald Ross Sir Ronald Ross

Charles Laveran

Charles Laveran
French physician Charles Laveran won the 1907 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Laveran was the first to identify the malaria parasite in the blood of a patient, and also worked on isolating other single-celled organisms which cause disease.
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Malaria; Laveran, Charles Louis Alphonse
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