Enrique Guillermo Tejera Guevara, Venezuelan epidemiologist and microbiologist (Valencia, Carabobo State 05 November 1899 – Caracas 28 November 1990)

Isolated about 40 thousands of varieties of Actinomycetes

Discovered Streptomyces venezuelae from which was isolated chloranphenicol (1947)

DESCRIBED PARASITIC SPECIES

Blastocrithidia lituri 1919

Blastocrithidia nalipi 1919

Crithidia striati 1919

Leptomonas blaberae 1926

Trypanosoma rangeli (1919)

HONORS

Tejeraia Díaz Ungria 1964 (Nematoda)  

Bernhardt Nocht Medal (1928)