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Victor Morax
Victor Morax (16 March 1866 – 14 May 1935) was a Swiss ophthalmologist born in Morges, Switzerland.
He studied in Freiburg (Germany) and Paris, and from 1891 to 1903, he worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. From 1903 to 1928, he was associated with the Hôpital Lariboisière, rejoining the Pasteur Institute as a permanent member in 1929. In 1930, he became a member of the Académie de Médecine.
While at the Pasteur Institute, Morax discovered the bacillus "Moraxella
Morax-Axenfeld diplobacilli
Moraxella lacunata is a rod-shaped, Gram-negative, nonmotile bacterium, generally present as diploid pairs. It causes one of the commonest forms of catarrhal conjunctivitis.
History.
"M. lacunata" was first described independently by Victor Morax (1896) and Theodor Axenfeld (1897), hence the alternate name "Morax-Axenfeld diplobacilli" and the name of eye infection in humans is sometimes called Morax-Axenfeld conjunctivitis.
Characters.
It has the ability to change its morphology