Maurice Neveu-Lemaire (24 September 1872 in Montbéliard – 4 May 1951 in Paris) was a French physician and parasitologist.

After receiving his degree in natural sciences (1895), he spent several years as an intern in marine laboratories at Banyuls-sur-Mer, Roscoff and Tatihou, as well as performing duties as préparateur at the laboratory of parasitology in Paris. After receiving his medical doctorate, he participated as a physician and naturalist aboard the yacht Princesse Alice to the Canary Islands, Madeira, Cape Verde and the Azores (1901-02). During the following year, he performed similar roles as part of the Créqui Montfort et Sénéchal de la Grange mission in South America.[1]

From 1904 to 1920, he was an associate professor to the faculty of medicine in Lyon, where for a number of years he gave lectures on parasitology. Afterwards, he was appointed chef des travaux de parasitologie to the faculty of medicine in Paris, and in 1926 he became a professor in the school of malariology at the university. During the 1920s, he conducted several scientific expeditions to the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa.[1]

In 1901 he described a family of parasitic protists known as Haemogregarinidae.[2][3] In 1924 he named several genera of parasites that affected large mammals (Khalilia, Paraquilonia, Buissonia, Henryella).[4]

Selected works

• Précis de parasitologie humaine, 1906 - Outline of human parasitology.
• Notes sur les mammiféres des hauts plateaux de l'Amérique du Sud, 1911 - Notes on mammals native to the upper plateaus of South America.
• Parasitologie des animaux domestiques, maladies parasitaires non bactériennes, 1912 - Parasitology involving domesticated animals, etc.
• Parasitologie des plantes agricoles, 1913 - Parasitology involving agricultural plants.
• Deux voyages cynégétiques et scientifiques en Afrique Occidentale Française, 1911–1914, (1920) - Two exploratory and scientific voyages in French West Africa from 1911 to 1914.
• Principes d'hygiéne et de médecine coloniales, 1925 - Principles of hygiene and colonial medicine.
• Traité d'helminthologie médicale et vétérinaire, 1936 - Treatise of medical and veterinary helminthology.
• Traité d'entomologie médicale et vétérinaire, 1938 - Treatise of medical and veterinary entomology.
• Traité de protozoologie médicale et vétérinaire, 1943 - Treatise of medical and veterinary protozoology.[5]

In 1923, with Émile Brumpt and Maurice Langeron, he founded the journal Les Annales de Parasitologie humaine et comparée.[1]

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