Olympio Arthur Oliveira Ribeiro da Fonseca, Brazilian physician (Rio de Janeiro 07 May 1895 – Rio de Janeiro 19 April 1978) Brother of Brazilian zoologist Flávio da Fonseca
ACHIEVEMENTS
Performed studies in mycology, parasitology and tropical medicine
Authored 150 works
First to demonstrate a sexual process in reproduction of blastomycosis-causating pathogenic yeasts in man (Debaryomyces sp.), 1922
Individualized and named chromoblastomycosis With Fernando Terra, Magarinos Torres & Area Leão. Novo typo de dermatite verrucosa, mycose por Acrotheca com associação de leishmaniosa. Bras.Med. 2:368-78, 1922. Developed the first specific skin test for paracoccidiodomycosis With A.E. Area Leão. Reaction cutanee specifique avec le filtrat de cellule du Coccidioides immitis. Comp. Rend. Seances Soc. Biol. 97:1796-7, 1927 First to note Aspergillus amstelodami causing black grains mycetoma of feet (1929) DESCRIBED Protozoa Genera Chilomitus 1915 Enteromonas 1915 Globomonas 1918 Tetrachilomastix 1915 Described about 30 new Protozoan species Fungi Genera Glenosporopsis 1943 Piedraia 1928 with Area Leão Pochonia 1965 with Batista Teratoschaeta 1967 with Batista Diptera Subgenus Pseudoscione 1918 with Lutz & Souza Araújo
HONORS Fonsecaia Pinto 1918 (Protozoa) Fonsecaea Negroni 1936 (Fungi)
OTHERS Honoris Causa, Université de Paris (1952) Honorary President, VI (Rome) & VII (Stockholm) International Congress of Microbiology
TRIVIA Set up the second in importance mycological collection in the world, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (1920s) |
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