Pierre Mollaret
Template:Short description Pierre Mollaret (10 July 1898 – 3 December 1987) was a French neurologist who made significant scientific contributions to the study of infectious diseases and neurology.Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". He was born July 10, 1898 in Auxerre, France and died December 3, 1987 in Paris. A rare disease characterized by recurrent episodes of aseptic meningitis was discovered by Mollaret, and subsequently named after him - called Mollaret's meningitis, this disease is typically caused by herpes simplex virus infection of the brain.[1][2]
In 1959 he described with Pierre Mollaret the brain death, called by them coma dépassé.[3] Additionally, Mollaret is credited with characterizing a neural pathway known as the Guillain-Mollaret triangle or Myoclonic triangle,[4] and the discovery of the causative agent of cat-scratch disease.[5]
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