Francisco
Leon y Blanco, Cuban-born Mexican pathologist (Guantanamo, Cuba 04 July 1904 -
1960) From
Chinese and Spanish descent With Cuban
J.A. Armenteros discovered Treponema
herrejoni as etiologic agent of mal de pinto independent from Saenz &
Triana (1938) Proposed modern conception of pinto and demonstrated the experimental transmission of this disease in man Estudios sobre la etiologia del mal de pinto: la transmisión
experimental del mal de pinto de persona a persona. Nota preliminar. Rev. Mex. Medicina 19:17-22,
1939 Described initial and secondary lesions of pinta or mal de pinto
Proposed the term pintides for disseminated secondary lesions of pinta With F. Latapí. Las lesiones del principio del mal de pinto.
Una nueva dermatosis. Rev. Mex. Medicina 20:315, 1940 Eponym of Leon Blanco disease or mal de pinto
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