Carlos Chagas
Brazilian doctor and scientist (1878-1934) · Brazil · Doctors · Lived 1879 to 1934 · aged 55
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Carlos Chagas receiving President Epitácio Pessoa and King Albert I of Belgium at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in 1920
Carlos Chagas and Oswaldo Cruz Institute team receiving Albert Einstein in 1925
Carlos Chagas with his sons, Evandro Chagas and Carlos Chagas Filho
Chagas on a 1989 10,000 Brazilian cruzados banknoteAwards
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Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas, was a Brazilian sanitary physician, scientist, and microbiologist who worked as a clinician and researcher. Best known for the discovery of an eponymous protozoal infection called Chagas disease, also called American trypanosomiasis, he also discovered the causative fungi of the pneumocystis pneumonia. He described the two pathogens in 1909, while he was working at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro, and named the former Trypanosoma cruzi to honour his friend Oswaldo Cruz.
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