Evandro Serafim Lobo Chagas, Brazilian microbiologist and parasitologist (Rio de Janeiro 10 August 1905 – Rio de Janeiro 08 November 1940)

Son of Carlos Chagas

ACHIEVEMENTS

Discovered American Visceral Leishmaniasis and described Leishmania chagasi  

With A.M. Cunha. Estudos sobre o parasite. In: Leishmaniose Visceral Americana, nova entidade mórbida do homem na América do Sul. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 32:239-337, 1937.

Created a serum-agglutination test for diagnosing visceral leishmaniasis  

HONORS

Evandromyia Mangabeira Filho 1941 (Diptera)