Biography
Arturo Lorenzo Carrión Pacheco, Puerto Rican medical mycologist and epidemiologist (Rio Piedras 15 August 1893 – San Juan October 1990)
Described the fungal species Rhinocladiella compacta 1935
Reported that Fonsecaea pedrosoi could be the etiological agent of chromomycosis (1935)
With C.W. Emmons. A spore form common to three etiologic agents of chromoblastomycosis. Puerto Rico J. Publ. Health Trop. Med. 11:114, 1935
Chromobiomycosis: new clinical type caused by Hormodendron compactum. Puerto Rico J. Publ. Health Trop. Med. 11:663, 1936
Cephalosporium falciforme sp.nov., a new etiologic agent of maduromycosis. Mycologia 43:522-3, 1951
Chromoblastomycosis and related infections. New concepts, differential diagnosis and nomenclatural implications. Int. J. Dermat. 14:27-32, 1975
Eponym of Pedroso-Carrión disease or chromoblastomycosis