In Memory of Dr. Mahmoud Bahmanyar, an International Researcher of the Pasteur Institute of Iran

In Iran and also throughout the world, Dr. Mahmoud Bahmanyar (1919-2007) is acknowledged as a well-known researcher mainly in the field of rabies and plague. As an expert of plague for the World Health Organization (WHO), he accomplished many missions in several countries such as India, Cambodia, My...

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Published inArchives of Iranian medicine Vol. 21; no. 9; p. 428
Main Authors Mahdavi, Sepideh, Enayatrad, Mostafa, Alzira MP de Almeida, Mostafavi, Ehsan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Tehran Academy of Medical Sciences of I.R. Iran 01.09.2018
Subjects
Medical research
Physicians
Plague
Public health
Rabies
Researchers
Iran
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Summary:In Iran and also throughout the world, Dr. Mahmoud Bahmanyar (1919-2007) is acknowledged as a well-known researcher mainly in the field of rabies and plague. As an expert of plague for the World Health Organization (WHO), he accomplished many missions in several countries such as India, Cambodia, Myanmar, Indonesia, Vietnam, Yemen, and Brazil. His research on rabies has played an important role leading to the successful combined use of immune-serum and anti-rabies vaccine for prevention of human rabies worldwide. He also conducted many studies in the field of typhus, relapsing fever, and polio. The present article aimed to review his activities.
ISSN:1029-2977
1735-3947