Floriano Paulo de Almeida, Brazilian
medical mycologist (São Paulo 25 January 1898 - Taubaté, São Paulo State 10 July 1977) ACHIEVEMENTS
With E. Souza
Campos distinguished North American blastomycosis from South American blastomycosis
know as Lutz-Splendore-Almeida disease (1927) With C.S.
Lacaz first to isolate Histoplasma
capsulatum (1939) With C.S. Lacaz obtained antigen paracoccidiodin for skin test of South American blastomycosis (1941) With C.S.
Lacaz, S. Sampaio & J.C. Fernandes presented the first report about cat to
man transmission of sporotrichosis (1955) Developed
Almeida-Silva Lacaz yeast sporulation medium With Barros
developed method for genetic determination of levuliform fungi With C. S. Lacaz. Nova técnica para demonstração rápida dos ascoporos. Folia Clin. Biol. 12(4), 1940
With M. Fernandes. Nova técnica para o isolamento rápido do Paracoccidioides brasiliensis. An. Fac. Med. Univ. S. Paulo 20:155-7, 1944 DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Genus Paracoccidioides 1930 etiologic agent of South American blastomycosis Species Fonsecaea monophora with Moore Geotrichum virulens 1940 with Lacaz Streptomyces paraguayensis (1940) |
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