Frederico Adolfo Simões Barbosa, Brazilian parasitologist and tropical physician (Recife 27 July 1916 – Recife 08 March 2004)

ACHIEVEMENTS

Published 220 scientific works

Specialized in schistosomal epidemiology

World Health Organization (WHO) expert on parasitary diseases (1960-70) 

Reported interspecific competition in mollusks demonstrating species substitution in schistosomiasis (1973)

Developed a quantitative coprological method for diagnosing schistosomiasis in

Morbidade na Esquistossomose. Thesis, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Recife (1965)  

Método para contagem de ovos de Schistosoma nas fezes. Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. S. Paulo 11(6):442-3, 1969

With J.M. Barbosa & T.A. Figueiredo. A technique for testing chemicals as moluscicids. Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Tropical 3(2):101-3, 1969

DESCRIBED VALID DIPTERA SPECIES

Culicoides alahialinus 1952

Culicoides equatoriensis 1952

Culicoides leoni 1952

Culicoides panamensis 1947

Culicoides paucienfuscatus 1947

FUNGI

Hyalopus cordoniformis (1941) 

HONORS

Culicoides barbosai (Wirth & Blanton) 1956

Echinostoma barbosai (Lie & Barth) 1966

Sepedonea barbosai (Knutson & Bredt) 1976