Alfred Boquet

Alfred Boquet (né Alfred Henri Jules Boquet; 26 December 1879 – 3 June 1947) was a French veterinarian and biologist born in Cires-lès-Mello.

In 1911, he began work as a veterinarian at the Pasteur Institute in Algiers, afterwards being promoted to chef de laboratoire (1913).

In Algiers with Léopold Nègre (1879-1961), he conducted research on epizootic lymphangitis, a disease affecting horses and mules caused by Cryptococcus farciminosus.

In Paris he performed studies on Mycobacterium tuberculosis, pseudo-tuberculosis of rodents, the bubonic plague in humans, ulcerative lymphangitis, paratuberculosis in cattle and anthrax.

With Léopold Nègre he developed antigène méthylique (antigen-methyl) for treatment of tuberculosis.