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}}'''Adrien Loir''' ([[December 15]], [[1862]] - 1941) was a French [[bacteriologist]] who was born in [[Lyon]]. He was a nephew of [[Louis Pasteur]], and for much of his career was associated with the [[Pasteur Institute]].
 
From 1882 to 1888 Loir was an assistant in Pasteur's laboratory in [[Paris]], where he performed research on [[swine fever]]. In 1886 he installed the first anti-[[rabies]] clinic in [[Saint Petersburg]]. Between 1888 and 1893 he made two journeys to Australia to research [[anthrax]] and [[Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia|pleropneumonia]]. While there he investigated the use of chicken [[cholera]] [[bacillus]] in an attempt to eradicate the country's rabbit infestation.