Charles Nicolle - Accomplishments

Accomplishments

Nicolle's major accomplishments in bacteriology and parasitology were:

• The discovery of the transmission method of typhus fever
• The introduction of a vaccination for Malta fever
• The discovery of the transmission method of tick fever
• His studies of cancer, scarlet fever, rinderpest, measles, influenza, tuberculosis and trachoma.
• Identification of the parasitic organism Toxoplasma gondii within the tissues of the gundi (Ctenodactylus gundi).

During his life Nicolle wrote a number of non-fiction and bacteriology books, including Le Destin des Maladies infectieuses; La Nature, conception et morale biologiques; Responsabilités de la Médecine, and La Destinée humaine.