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KIREYEV, Mikhail was born in 1873 in Moscow. Son of an employee of Moscow Discount Bank.
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Mikhail Petrovich KIREYEV
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1899 graduate Medical Faculty, Moscow University.
Career
After graduate intern, Sokolniki (now Red Soviet) Hospital, Moscow. 1907-1910 associate professor, Moscow University. From 1910 until death, head, Department of Infectious Diseases, Soldatyonkov (now Botkin) Hospital, Moscow.
1914-1918 also chief physician, Khodynskaya Hospital of Infectious Diseases. 1918-1936 professor, Chair of Infectious Diseases, 1st Moscow University (now 1st Moscow Medical Institute). 1932-1943 professor, Centr Institute of Postgraduate Medical Training.
Described diagnostic symptoms of typhus. Was one of first Soviet sci to use Wcil-Felix reaction to diagnose this disease. Used blood-drop test to diagnose recurrent fever.
Developed specific therapy for diphtheria and scarlet fever. Devised isolation and treatment measures for nosocomial diseases at infection hospitals. During Civil War combatted epidemics and worked on various medical commissions.
Member, Learned Medical Council, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics People's Commissariat of Health. Member, cd collegia, various medical journals. Company-ed, Bol’shaya meditsinskaya entsiklopediya (Large Medical Encyclopedia).
From 1931 deputy, Moscow City Soviet of several convocations. From 1938 deputy, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Supreme Soviet. From 1939 deputy chairman, All-Union Social of Microbiologists, Epidemiologists and Infectionists.
Wrote over 70 works.
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Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics