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History of malaria control in the French armed forces: from Algeria to the Macedonian front during the first World War Volume 24, issue 4, October-November-December 2014

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Authors
1 École du Val-de-Grâce, 1 place Alphonse Laveran, 75230, Paris cedex 05, France
2 Centre d’épidémiologie et de santé publique des armées, Camp militaire de Sainte-Marthe, BP 40026, 13568 Marseille cedex 02, France
3 Gispe, 82 Boulevard Tellène, 13007 Marseille, France
4 Institut de recherche biomédicale des armées, BP 70, 91223, Brétigny-sur-Orge, France
5 Hôpital d’instruction des armées Bégin, 69 avenue de Paris, 94163, Saint-Mandé cedex, France
* Correspondance

The French joint military health corps has long experience in malaria control. Many military physicians played an essential role in the 19th century: Maillot revolutionized malaria treatment by using quinine during the conquest of Algeria, and Laveran discovered the causal parasite (the genus Plasmodium) there. This experience continued under the direction of Laveran and the Sergent brothers on the eastern front in Greek Macedonia during World War I. The vast coordinated control plan established on this front from 1917 delivered the French infantrymen from malaria and led to victory over the Bulgarian forces, which capitulated in September 1918.