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Evandro Chagas

Evandro Serafim Lobo Chagas, Brazilian microbiologist and parasitologist (Rio de Janeiro 10 August 1905 – Rio de Janeiro 08 November 1940)
Son of Carlos Chagas
 
ACHIEVEMENTS

Discovered American Visceral Leishmaniasis and described Leishmania chagasi  

With A.M. Cunha. Estudos sobre o parasite. In: Leishmaniose Visceral Americana, nova entidade mórbida do homem na América do Sul. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 32:239-337, 1937.
 
Created a serum-agglutination test for diagnosing visceral leishmaniasis  
 
HONORS

Evandromyia Mangabeira Filho 1941 (Diptera)