Biography
Alfonso Splendore, Italian-born Brazilian physician (Fagnano Castelo, Cosenza province 25 April 1871 –São Paulo 30 April 1953)
ACHIEVEMENTS
First reported case of animal infection by sporotrichosis
With A. Lutz. Sobre uma micose observada em homens e ratos. Rev. Med. S. Paulo 21:433-50, 1907
With A. Lutz described pathogeny, pathology and symptomatology of sporotrichosis and discovered the possibility of growing Sporotrichium schenckii in vitro (1907)
Discovered Toxoplasma gondii (1908) independently from Nicolle and Manceaux
Described mucous form of American cutaneous leishmaniasis, a new clinical form of leishmaniasis (1911)
Isolated Paracoccidioides brasiliensis etiologic agent of paracoccidiodomycosis (1913)
DESCRIBED PROTOZOA SPECIES
Coelosporidium periplanetae 1903 with Lutz
Glugea caeculiae 1904 with Lutz
Glugea halesidotidis 1904 with Lutz
Glugea heliotidis 1904 with Lutz
Glugea hydriae 1904 with Lutz
Glugea micrattaci 1904 with Lutz
Microsporidium balantidii 1908 with Lutz
Microsporidium distomi 1908 with Lutz
Microsporidium ephemerae 1908 with Lutz
Microsporidium girardini 1903
Nosema astyroe 1903
Nosema chironomi 1908
Nosema erippi 1903
Nosema eubules 1903
Nosema junonis 1903
Nosema lophocampoe 1903
Nosema periplanetoe 1903
Nosema vanilloe 1903
Polydispyrenia simulii 1908
Trypanosoma hypostomi 1910
EPONYMY
Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon or Splendore reaction or Splendore corpuscles (1908)
Lutz-Splendore-Almeida disease or paracoccidioidomycosis
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