Jacques Euzéby

Jacques Achille Marie Euzéby is a French parasitologist born on August 11, 1920 in Bagnols-sur-Cèze, and deceased in Lyons on April 16, 2010.^[1]

He studied in particular with emblematic figures of parasitology: Gabriel Marotel (Professor at the Lyons School of Veterinary Medicine), André Brizard (Professor at the Toulouse School of Veterinary Medicine), Jean Guilhon (Professor at the Paris-Alfort School of Veterinary Medicine), but also with Émile Brumpt (Professor at the University of Paris School of Medicine) and Robert-Philippe Dollfus (Researcher at the Natural History Museum of Paris).

Jacques Euzéby graduated from the Lyons School of Veterinary Medicine in 1943 (thanks to his thesis, dedicated to milk hygiene), ang got his MSc (biological chemistry, general biology, general zoology) and his so-called agrégation of veterinary schools (parasitology and parasitic diseases. He was then appointed as a professor at the Lyons School of Veterinary Medicine.

Doctor honoris causa from the Universities of Turin (Italy) and Timisoara (Romania), Jacques Euzéby was elected member of the French Académie Nationale de Médecine and of the French Veterinary Academy. He also belongs to the Spanish Royal Academy of Veterinary Sciences.

Jacques Euzéby’s international career is based on his studies on parasites (including fungi) and parasitic diseases, on compared parasitology and on parasitic zoonoses. This prestige was made true through his honor membership of the French Society of Exotic Pathology, of the French Society for Parasitology, of the European College of Veterinary Parasitology and of the'World Association for The Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology (WAAVP)- an organization he was elected president of. Although he refused all medals and distinctions, Jacques Euzéby was granted the Emile Brumpt Award and the WAAVP Award.

Jacques Euzéby wrote 25 scientific books and hundreds of scientific papers, dedicated to the epidemiology and general parasitology of parasitic diseases, to helmintoses (helminthiasis), nematodoses, cestodoses, trematodoses, protozooses, acariases (acariasis) and entomoses, to mycoses to parasitic zoonoses. His research were dedicated to experimental study of gastrointestinal anthelminthic drugs in sheep, to the epidemiology of alveolar echinococcosis (Euzéby was the first finder of this parasit in France), to the immunology of coccidiosis and to anthropozoonoses of parasitic origin.

From 1955, he participated in numerous teaching or research missions for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Epizzotic Office Office international des épizooties (OIE, that became World Animal Health Organization), the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He taught in several universities or veterinary schools in Mexico City, in Paraguay, in Saigon, in Nairobi, in Asuncion, in Curitiba or in Mosul (Iraq).

Jacques Euzéby has 6 children, among whom:

• Alain Euzéby, Professor of Economics at the Grenoble Institute of Political Studies, a specialist in social-insurance economics, who wrote several books and articles dedicated to the impact of globalization on European social protection systems;
• Jean Euzéby, Professor of Microbiology at the Toulouse School of Veterinary Medicine, a world-known specialist of bacterial taxonomy.

Books

• Des procédés de numération des microbes du lait, PhD thesis, Lyons School of Medicine, 1943
• Le parasitisme en pathologie aviaire, 1950, Éditions Vigot, Paris, 105 pages
• Zoonoses helminthiques, Éditions Vigot, Paris, 1958, 383 pages (this book was awarded the Jean Raynaud Award, by the French National Academy of Medicine)
• Les maladies vermineuses des animaux et leur incidence sur la pathologie humaine - tome I : « Maladies dues aux némathelminthes » - fascicule 1 : Éditions Vigot, Paris, 1961, 473 pages (this book was awarded the Jean Raynaud Award, by the French National Academy of Medicine)
• El parasitismo en patología aviar, 1962, Editorial Acribia, Saragoza (Espagne), 148 pages
• Les maladies vermineuses des animaux et leur incidence sur la pathologie humaine - tome I : « Maladies dues aux némathelminthes » - fascicule 2, Éditions Vigot, Paris, 1963, 830 pages (this book was awarded the Jean Raynaud Award, by the French National Academy of Medicine)
• Les maladies vermineuses des animaux et leur incidence sur la pathologie humaine - tome II : « Maladies dues aux plathelminthes » - fascicule 1 : Cestodoses, Éditions Vigot, Paris, 1966, 660 pages (this book was awarded the Jean Raynaud Award, by the French National Academy of Medicine)
• Cours de mycologie médicale comparée, Éditions Vigot, Paris, 1969, 305 pages (this book was awarded the Jean Raynaud Award, by the French National Academy of Medicine)
• Les maladies vermineuses des animaux et leur incidence sur la pathologie humaine - tome II : « Maladies dues aux plathelminthes » - fascicule 2 : Trématodoses - livre 1, Editions Vigot, Paris, 1971, 780 pages (this book was awarded the Jean Raynaud Award, by the French National Academy of Medicine)
• Les échinoccoses animales et leur relation avec les échinoccoses de l’homme, Editions Vigot, Paris, 1971, 153 pages (this book was awarded the Jean Raynaud Award, by the French National Academy of Medicine)
• Les maladies vermineuses des animaux et leur incidence sur la pathologie humaine - tome II : « Maladies dues aux plathelminthes » - fascicule 2 : Trématodoses - livre 2, Éditions Vigot, Paris, 1975, 720 pages (this book was awarded the Jean Raynaud Award, by the French National Academy of Medicine)
• Diagnostic expérimental des helminthoses animales - livre 1 : « Diagnostic ante mortem », 1981, Éditions Informations techniques des Services vétérinaires, Paris, 345 pages (ASIN: B00183Z0FS)
• Diagnostic expérimental des helminthoses animales - livre 2 : « Diagnostic post mortem et diagnostic immunologique », 1982, Éditions Informations techniques des Services vétérinaires, Paris, 360 pages
• Les parasitoses humaines d'origine animale, 1984, Flammarion Médecine-Sciences, Paris, 325 pages (ISBN 978-2-2571-0432-8)
• Some Important Parasitic Infections in Bovines Considered from Economic and Social Zoonosis Points of View (with Jean Gevrey), 1984, European Communities (ISBN 9789282550144)
• Protozoologie médicale comparée - tome I : « Généralités - Sarcomasigophores – Ciliés », 1986, Fondation Mérieux, Lyon, 453 pages
• Protozoologie médicale comparée - tome II : « Myxozoa - Microspora - Acetospora - Apicomplexa : Coccidioses sensu lato», 1987, Fondation Mérieux, Lyon, 472 pages
• Protozoologie médicale comparée - tome III : « Apicomplexe – Hémisporidioses – Hémoprotéidoses – Caractères généraux des ‘piroplasmoses’ », 1983, Fondation Mérieux, Lyon, 558 pages (ISBN 9782901773825)
• Protozoologie médicale comparée - tome IV : « Études particulières des ‘piroplasmoses’ ‘’lato sensu - Theileriidoses - Cytauxzoonoses - Leucocytozoïdoses - Garniidoses», (date ?), Fondation Mérieux, Lyon
• Mycologie médicale comparée - Tome I : « Mycologie médicale générale – Mycoses dues aux Mastigomycotina, Zygomycotina et Ascomycotina », 1992, Fondation Mérieux, Lyon, 452 pages
• Mycologie médicale comparée - Tome II : « Mycoses dues aux Basidiomycotina et Deuteromycotina – Paramycoses (phycoses) – Le problème du Pneumocystis »,1994, Fondation Mérieux, Lyon, 522 pages
• Les parasites agents de dermatoses zoonosiques et leur rôle pathogène - Épidémiologie, étiologie, caractères cliniques, contrôle, (date ?), MSD-Chibret, Paris, 304 pp.
• La spécificité parasitaire et ses incidences épidémiologiques et étiologiques, 1997 (?), Fondation Mérieux, Lyon
• Les parasites des viandes - Épidémiologie, physiopathologie, incidences zoonosiques, 1997, Editions médicales internationales/Lavoisier, 402 pages (ISBN 9782743001995)
• Los parásitos de las carnes, 2001, Editorial Acriba, Saragoza (Espagne), 448 pages (ISBN 9788420009254)
• Les risques parasitaires liés aux déjections d'origine humaine et animale, manipulées et épandues, 2002, Romark Institute of Medical Research, Tampa, Florida (USA), 360 pages (also published in English and Spanish) (ISBN 9780972169608)
• Waterborne Parasitic Infections Associated With Handling And Spreading Of Human And Animal Wastes - Faecal Contamination And Water Quality2002, Romark Institute of Medical Research, Tampa, Florida (USA), 360 pages
• Les dermatoses parasitaires d'origine zoonosique dans les environnements de l'Homme, Éditions médicales internationales/Lavoisier, Paris, 2003, 256 pages (ISBN 9782743005900)
• Dictionnaire de parasitologie médicale et vétérinaire, 2004, Éditions médicales internationales/Lavoisier, Paris, 492 pages (ISBN 9782743007058)
• Grand dictionnaire illustré de parasitologie médicale et vétérinaire, 2008, Éditions médicales internationale/Lavoisier, Paris, 815 pages (this book is the 2nd edition of Dictionnaire de parasitologie médicale et vétérinaire, 2004) (ISBN 9782743010447)

References

1. Le Figaro, April 20, 2010; Le Figaro, April 23, 2010; Le Monde, April 23, 2010.

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