Joseph Leon Marcel Lignieres, French-born Argentine veterinarian and bacteriologist (Saint-Michel, Meuse Department 26 July 1868 – Buenos Aires 20 October 1933)
ACHIEVEMENTS
Named pasteurellosis and salmonellosis
Described enteque seco or enzootic calcinosis in bovine
Contribution à l’etude de la pasteurellose. Bull. Soc. Centr. Med. Vet. 16:761-92, 1898
Described hemorrhagic septicemia in sheep (1898)
Classified hemorrhagic septicemia
Contribution à l’etude et à la classification des septicémies hémorrhagiques. Les Pasteurelloses. Ann. Inst. Pasteur 15:734-6, 1900
Described actinobacillosis, isolated Actinobacillus sp. and differentiated from actinomycosis (1902). This microbe was named Actinobacillus lignieresii in his honor
With J. Spitz. Contribution a l’etude des affections connues sous le nom d’actinomycose – actinobacilllose. Rev. Soc. Med. Arg. 5:105, 1902
With J. Spitz. Contribution a l’etude des affections connues sous le nom d’actinomycose. Arch. Parasitol. 7:248, 1903
First description of arteriosclerosis in sheep (1912)
DESCRIBED GENERA
Salmonella 1900 (Bacteria)
Hemisarcoptes 1893 (Acari)
EPONYMY
Lignieres medium
Lignieres method of vaccination
Lignieres-Spitz staining method for actinobacillosis
Lignieres test, a cuti-tuberculin reaction modified from Moro test
Lignieres ganglia
Genus Ligniera Maire & Tison 1911 (Fungi)