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Author’s Biosketch
Professor Patrice Bourée was for 40 years the head of the Parasitic and Tropical Diseases Department of the Paris IX University. Professor at the College of Medicine in Paris, he is currently a Consultant Professor at the Alfred- Fournier Institute, which is a renowned medical center of infectious diseases. He worked on different subjects of tropical pathology (bilharziosis, filariosis, amoebiasis, malaria…) in Africa, South America, Pacific islands and recently in Mayotte (Indian Ocean) on leprosy. He was the first to describe, in 1976, an outbreak of human trichinellosis due to horse meat, which is well known today. More than 1700 scientific papers written by Patrice Bourée. He has published several books, in French, the most recent of which are: Aide-mémoire of Parasitology 400p, Pregnancy and Tropical Pathology 200p, Parasitology and Mycology in pocket 105p. He is Commander of The Academic Palms of the University and member of several scientific societies.