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A history of immunisation. From Pasteur to the Present Volume 13, issue 4, Avril 2017

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PU-PH de Thérapeutique à l’université Paris 1348, Rue Alfred Labrière, 95100 Argenteuil ; Docteur en Histoire
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After the eruption of the prevention of smallpox by the technique of inoculation in the eighteenth century, then the vaccine of Jenner, it is Pasteur that we owe the development of the concept of prevention (even treatment Curative) of certain infectious diseases by the injection of “attenuated” infectious substances. After tests, indeed promising in animals, it is known that it is in the treatment of rabies, a very rare but incurable disease, that it has gradually succeeded in establishing its concept, not without trial and error, at the point An institute dedicated to the development of vaccines has resulted in multiple anti-infectious victories.