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Carlos Chagas
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Brazilian doctor and scientist (1878–1934)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1879-07-09 ) 9 July 1879, Oliveira , Minas Gerais , Empire of Brazil
- Died
- 8 November 1934 (1934-11-08) (aged 55), Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
- Alma mater
- Medical School of Rio de Janeiro
- Known for
- Chagas disease
- Parents
- José Justiniano das Chagas (father) Mariana Cândida Chagas (mother)
- Fields
- Microbiology , Medicine
- Institutions
- Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
- Thesis
- Estudos hematológicos no impaludismo (1903)
- Doctoral advisor
- Francisco Fajardo
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Carlos
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Brazil
- Place of birth
- Oliveira
- Place of death
- Rio de Janeiro
- Child
- Carlos Chagas Filho
- Position held
- full professor
- Educated at
- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Academic degree
- doctorate
- Field of work
- parasitology
- Image
- Carlos chagas 2.jpg
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- Commons category
- Carlos Chagas
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- date of birth
- 1879-07-09
- date of death
- 1934-11-08
- member of
- Académie Nationale de Médecine
- manner of death
- natural causes
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- P8168
- Bob Odenkirk
- P6944
- Carlos Chagas
- Commons Creator page
- Carlos Chagas
- place of burial
- Cemitério de São João Batista
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Encyclopedic overview
Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas ( Portuguese: [ˈkaʁluz ʒustʃĩniˈɐ̃nu ʁiˈbejɾu ˈʃaɡɐs]; 9 July 1879 – 8 November 1934) , was a Brazilian sanitary physician, scientist, and microbiologist who worked as a clinician and researcher. Best known for the discovery of an eponymous protozoal infection called Chagas disease, also called American trypanosomiasis, he also discovered the causative fungi of the pneumocystis pneumonia. He described the two pathogens in 1909, while he was working at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro, and named the former Trypanosoma cruzi to honour his friend Oswaldo Cruz.
Chagas's work holds a unique place in the history of medicine, Chagas described in detail a previously-unknown infectious disease, its pathogen, vector (Triatominae), host, clinical manifestations, and epidemiology. Chagas was also the first to discover and illustrate the parasitic fungal genus Pneumocystis, which later became infamous for being linked to pneumocystis pneumonia in AIDS patients.
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