René Germanier

René Germanier (* 1929 ; † December 25, 1986 ) was a Swiss microbiologist . He was director at the Swiss Serum and Vaccination Institute in Bern and honorary professor for general microbiology at the University of Bern .

In the 1970s, Germanier and Emil Fürer developed a vaccine against typhoid that was based on living (rather than killed) typhoid pathogens. To do this, they developed a weakened, genetically modified bacterial strain Ty21A. The vaccine has been successfully tested in Chile by Germanians and others .

In 1984 he received the Emil von Behring Prize .

Fonts (selection)

(Editor) Bacterial vaccines , Academic Press 1984.

Individual evidence

^ Who's who in science in Europe. 1984, Vol. 1, p. 745.
^ ^A ^b Levine, Black, Ferreccio, Germanier: Large scale field trial of TY21A live oral typhoid vaccine in enteric-coated capsule formulation , The Lancet, Vol. 329, 1987, p. 1049.

personal data
SURNAME	Germanier, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss microbiologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1929
DATE OF DEATH	December 25, 1986

[1] Who's who in science in Europe. 1984, Vol. 1, p. 745.

[l-2] A ^b Levine, Black, Ferreccio, Germanier: Large scale field trial of TY21A live oral typhoid vaccine in enteric-coated capsule formulation , The Lancet, Vol. 329, 1987, p. 1049.