Frederico Adolfo Simões Barbosa, Brazilian parasitologist and tropical physician (Recife 27 July 1916 - Recife 08 March 2004)
ACHIEVEMENTS
Published 220 scientific works
Specialized in schistosomal epidemiology
World Health Organization (WHO) expert on parasitary diseases (1960-70)
Reported interspecific competition in mollusks demonstrating species substitution in schistosomiasis (1973)
Developed a quantitative coprological method for diagnosing schistosomiasis in
Morbidade na Esquistossomose. Thesis, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Recife (1965) Método para contagem de ovos de Schistosoma nas fezes. Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. S. Paulo 11(6):442-3, 1969 With J.M. Barbosa & T.A. Figueiredo. A technique for testing chemicals as moluscicids. Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Tropical 3(2):101-3, 1969
DESCRIBED VALID DIPTERA SPECIES Culicoides alahialinus 1952 Culicoides equatoriensis 1952 Culicoides leoni 1952 Culicoides panamensis 1947 Culicoides paucienfuscatus 1947 FUNGI Hyalopus cordoniformis (1941) HONORS
Culicoides barbosai (Wirth & Blanton) 1956
Echinostoma barbosai (Lie & Barth) 1966
Sepedonea barbosai (Knutson & Bredt) 1976
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