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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 ...
Evandro (left) with his father, Carlos Chagas and his brother Carlos Chagas Filho. Evandro Serafim Lobo Chagas (August 10, 1905 – November 8, 1940) the eldest son of Carlos Chagas (1879-1934), noted physician and scientist who discovered Chagas disease, and brother of Carlos Chagas Filho (1910-2000), also a noted physician and scientist who was president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
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.
Rodrigo José Queiroz Chagas (born 1973), a Brazilian retired football player; Martin Andrade Weber Chagas Carvalho (born 1985), a Brazilian retired football player; with surname Das Chagas. António das Chagas (1631–1682), a Portuguese Franciscan and ascetical writer; Diogo das Chagas (c. 1584–c. 1661), a Franciscan friar and Azorean historian
An acute Chagas disease infection with swelling of the right eye (Romaña's sign) Chagas disease occurs in two stages: an acute stage, which develops one to two weeks after the insect bite, and a chronic stage, which develops over many years. [2] [4] [16] The acute stage is often symptom-free. [2]
Carlos Chagas Filho (September 10, 1910 – February 16, 2000) was a Brazilian physician, biologist and scientist active in the field of neuroscience. He was internationally renowned for his investigations on the neural mechanisms underlying the phenomenon of electrogenesis by the electroplaques of electric fishes .
World Chagas Disease Day is observed on April 14 to raise awareness around Chagas disease. It was first celebrated on April 14, 2020, and was named after Carlos Ribeiro Justiniano Chagas , the Brazilian doctor who diagnosed the first case on April 14, 1909.
The Carlos III Health Institute (Spanish: Instituto de Salud Carlos III; ISCIII) is a Spanish public health research institute, [1] legally constituted as a public research agency (organismo público de investigación), a type of quasi-autonomous entity under Spanish law.