Carlos Bastos Magarinos Torres, Brazilian anatomical pathologist (Rio de Janeiro 24 November 1891 – Rio de Janeiro  26 January 1984)

Authored over 162 works

ACHIEVEMENTS

Described histopathological alterations in cardiac striated muscle lesions in Chagas disease known as Magarinos Torres lesions

Estudo do miocardio na moléstia de Chagas. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 9:114-39, 1917 

Introduced the concept of allergy in Chagas disease pathogeny (1929)

With A.P. de Azevedo described multinuclear giant cells filled with leishmanioid bodies in Chagas disease (1939)

Reported the second case of toxoplasmosis in the world and the first to be described of the generalized form of the infection

Described the first case of congenital toxoplasmosis in universal literature

Sur un nouvelle maladie de l’homme, caracterisé par la présence d’un parasite intracellulaire, três proche du  toxoplasme et de l’Encephalolitozoon, dans le tissu musculaire cardiaque, les muscles  du squelette, le tissu céllulaire sous-cutané et le tissue nerveux. C.R. Soc. Biol. 97:1178-9, 1927

Sobre uma nova entidade morbida do homem caracterizada por meningoencefalite, miosite e miocardite aguda congênitas, associadas a presença, nos respectivos tecidos de um novo parasita, Encephalitozoon chagasi. Bras. Med. 42:1-14, 1928

Described anatomopathologically the toxoplasmosis  

Described Magarinos Torres bodies, oxychromatic bodies with intranuclear inclusions in hepatic cells affected by yellow fever

Inclusions nucleaires acidophiles (dégénérescence oxychromatique) dans le foie de Macacus rhésus, inocule avec le vírus brésilien de La fievre jaune. Compt. Rend. Soc. Biol. 99:1344-5, 1928

Individualized and named chromoblastomycosis

With Fernando Terra, O. Fonseca & Area Leão. Novo typo de dermatite verrucosa, mycose por Acrotheca com associação de leishmaniosa. Bras.Med. 36(2):368-78, 1922. 

With J. C. Teixeira first cultured measles virus (1935)

Developed a method for diagnosing alastrim

With J.C. Teixeira. Método para o diagnóstico do alastrim. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 32:543, 1937

With C. Pinto demonstrated the mode of eliminating eggs by Schistosoma mansoni in gastrointestinal tube (1945) 

EPONYMY  

Torres-Teixeira bodies  

Janko-Magarinos Torres disease or human toxoplasmosis  

Ribas-Torres disease or variola minor 

Magarinos Torres degeneration