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Wladimir Lobato Paraense

Wladimir Lobato Paraense, Brazilian parasitologist and malacologist (Igarapé-Mirim, Pará State 16 November 1914 – Rio de Janeiro 11 February 2012)
 
Internationally known as leading expert on Planorbidae Mollusca
 
Authored 171 papers

Developed in vitro culture of exo-erythrocytary form of Plasmodium gallinaceum 

With  H. Meyer & V. Menezes. Estudos sobre Plasmodium gallinaceum. Comportamento dos esporozoitos em cultura de baço embrionário. Rev. Bras. Biol. 2(1):89-94, 1942

 
Proved existence of exo-erythrocyte cycle in malaria independently of Reichenow & Mudrow (1943; published in 1944)

O ciclo exoeritrocitário dos parasitas da malária. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 41(3):469-93, 1944

 
Demonstrated that malarial parasites induce production of distinct antibodies and specific ones to distinct phases of each cycle 

Aspectos parasitários observados no local inoculado com esporozoítos de Plasmodium gallinaceum. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 38: 353-359. (English summary: 357-359)(1943)

Ação patogênica das formas exoeritrocitárias do Plasmodium gallinaceum. 1. Investigações preliminares. 2. Prova terapêutica da ação patogênica. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 44: 147-192. (English summary: 185-192), 1946

 

Described a method for concentrate miracidia

With L.R. Correa. Variation in susceptibility of populations of Australorbis glabratus to stran of Schistosoma mansoni. Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. S. Paulo 5:15-22, 1963

With I.N. Deslandes. The renal ridge as a reliable character for separating Taphius glabratus from Taphius tenagophilus. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 8:456-72, 1959  


Sperm sharing in Biomphalaria snails. Nature 325(6106):737, 1987

 

DESCRIBED SPECIES/SUBSPECIES 

Gastropoda Mollusca

Australorbis inflexus 1956 with Deslandes

Australorbis intermedius 1962 with Deslandes

Biomphalaria amazonica 1966

Biomphalaria cousini 1966

Biomphalaria occidentalis 1981

Biomphalaria oligoza 1974

Biomphalaria orbignyi 1975

Biomphalaria tenagophila guaibensis 1984

Drepanotrema lineatum 1971

Gyraulus percarinatus 2005

Lymnaea rupestris 1982

Plesiophysa dolichomastix 2002

Diptera

Aedes lepidus 1945 with Cerqueira

 
 

HONORS

Telebasis paraense Machado 1956 (Odonata)

Echinostoma paraensei Lie & Basch 1967 (Trematoda)

Eimeria lobatoi Ferreira, Araújo, Confalonieri, Chame e Ribeiro 1992 (Protozoa)

Culicoides lobatoi Felippe-Bauer & Quintelas 1994 (Diptera)

Man of the Year, American Biographical Institute (1997)

Biographies in International Who’s Who & Dictionary of International Biography