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Carlos Chagas, age 4. Chagas was the son of José Justiniano das Chagas, a coffee farmer at Juiz de Fora in Minas Gerais, and Mariana Cândida Chagas (née Ribeiro de Castro), both of Portuguese descent. [2] His birth place is also recorded as Oliveira, his mother's hometown, [3] where the family spent half of their times. He was the eldest of ...
In the 1940s fisherman Henrique Penna from the Rockefeller Foundation in Rio de Janeiro reported that he had discovered cases of leishmaniasis in Brazil's countryside. [1] The disease had not been previously detected in Brazil, and as a response, Carlos Chagas of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute organized a commission leishmaniasis to be headed by his son Evandro Chagas.
Chagas is a potentially fatal neglected disease that affects between 8 and 13 million people worldwide. DNDi 's Time to Treat campaign is pushing for increased political interest in new treatments for Chagas disease, increased public awareness of the disease and treatment limitations and increased public and private investment in R&D.
Carlos Chagas (1879–1934), a Brazilian sanitary physician, scientist and bacteriologist; Carlos Chagas Filho (1910–2000), a Brazilian physician, biologist and scientist; Evandro Chagas (1905–1940), a Brazilian physician and biomedical scientist; Francisco das Chagas Rodrigues de Brito (born 1965), Brazilian serial killer
The formal description of Chagas disease was made by Carlos Chagas in 1909 after examining a two-year-old girl with fever, swollen lymph nodes, and an enlarged spleen and liver. [58] Upon examination of her blood, Chagas saw trypanosomes identical to those he had recently identified from the hindgut of triatomine bugs and named Trypanosoma ...
Carlos Chagas Filho (at right) with his father, Carlos Chagas, and older brother, Evandro Chagas. Carlos Chagas Filho (September 10, 1910 – February 16, 2000) was a Brazilian physician, biologist and scientist active in the field of neuroscience.
Casas de fuego is a 1995 Argentine biographical-drama historical film directed by Juan Bautista Stagnaro and starring Miguel Ángel Solá, Pastora Vega y Carola Reyna.It was released on August 31, 1995, and won seven awards, among them the "Kikito de Oro" for Best Film at the Gramado Film Festival and the Silver Condor Award for Best Film.
The creation of the institute was a proposal of Carlos Malbrán, for whom it owes the name, after an epidemic of yellow fever in Buenos Aires in 1916. The 2000 pesos Argentinian banknote issued in 2023 show the headquarters of Malbran Institute in the neighborhood of Barracas, Buenos Aires , making tribute of the Argentine public health system ...