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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 ...
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 .
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.
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.
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 (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
Carlos Chagas is a Brazilian municipality located in the northeast of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2020 [update] was 18,674 living in a total area of 3,199 km 2 . [ 1 ] The city belongs to the statistical mesoregion of Vale do Mucuri and to the statistical microregion of Nanuque .
The 2013 South American Cross Country Championships took place on February 24, 2013. The races were held at the Parque del Complejo Ayuí Resort y Spa Termal in Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina. [1]