[ noun ] French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895) <noun.person>
In a test of the drug Imuthiol (ditiocarb sodium), made by Pasteur Merieux Serums & Vaccins in France, scientists studied 389 patients with AIDS or AIDS-related complex.
Analysis of the chimpanzee virus is presented in Thursday's issue of the British journal Nature by scientists from Gabon and from the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
Another potential issue is the ultimate ownership of the patent, now held jointly by the U.S. government and Pasteur, on the test that has been used to check millions of individuals and units of stored blood plasma for exposure to the AIDS virus.
Statements from Washington and Paris said lawyers for the National Institutes of Health and the Pasteur Institute are trying to settle the suit, in which the French claim a share from sales of blood-test kits.
He was trained at the Institut Pasteur and National Agronomic Institute in agricultural engineering.
The discovery of the AIDS virus, which was crucial to the development of tests for AIDS and drugs to fight it, is now credited to Gallo and Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
World Bank specialists said the toll was probably more in the range of 30,000 and Dr. Pierre Coulanges, director of the Pasteur Institute here, said the toll could be as high as 50,000 and in some villages 20 percent of the residents had died.
"There are no known cases of recovery from AIDS, so we have no idea of the immune parameters that are important," said Dr. Marc Girard of the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
Marc Girard, a vaccine researcher at Pasteur, reported preliminary success in a test of two chimpanzees vaccinated with "cocktails" of synthetic protein fragments.
The report on the study, published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association, was led by Evan Hersh of the University of Arizona and L. Rachid Salmi of Pasteur Merieux, which sponsored the study.
Richard Stubbins has been appointed finance director of MERIEUX, the UK subsidiary of Pasteur Merieux Serums et Vaccins.