The history of Tropical Medicine in Brazil: The discovery of Trypanosoma cruzi by Carlos Chagas and the German School of Protozoology

Parassitologia

Volumn 47, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 309-317

  Sá, Magali Romero ^a  

^a De Saúde Pública Fiocruz   (Brazil)

Author keywords

American trypanosomiasis; Brazil; Carlos Chagas; German protozoologists; Tropical medicine

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE CARRIER; HISTORY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA; ORGANIZATION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TROPICAL MEDICINE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ACADEMIES AND INSTITUTES; ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; PARASITOLOGY; TROPICAL MEDICINE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 33748600659     PISSN: 00482951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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