José Vicente Scorza Benítez, Venezuelan parasitologist (Caracas 08 July 1924 – Merida 18 August 2016)

From Italian ancestry

Proposed identification of Leishmania braziliensis, L.mexicana and L. garnhami species by location of kinetoplast

With H. Urdaneta. Experimental basis for the identification of American Leishmania spp. by morphometry of amastigotes. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz (1982)

Developed ulamine, a pentavalent antimonial for leishmaniasis

With Y. Petit de Peña, N.Vicuña Fernandez, S. López Rangel, L. Vasquez, P. Carrero, J.V. Scorza Dagert & C. Rondón. Antimony speciation in human blood samples from patients treated with ulamine: a novel experimental drug for leishmaniasis. Metal. Ions In Biol. Med. 8:560-3, 2004

DEVELOPED METHODS

With J. Marquez & N. Añez. Coconut water as a monophasic liquid medium for cultivating Trypanosomatidae. Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. Hum. (1987)

With J.C. Sanchez Marquez & M.M. Nin Marquez. La densidad de Lutzomyia townsendi (Diptera:Phlebotominae) adultos estimada fototacticamente mediante el marcado con fluorocromos (1984)

A new method for isolating Schistosoma japonicum eggs by enzymes (1961)

With A. Alvarez, I. Ramos, C. Dagert, A Díaz Vasquez & J.F. Torrealba. New rapid method for the diagnosis of Chagas disease in its chronic phase (Application of the Sabin-Feldman dye test). Arch. Venez. Med. Trop. Parasitol. Med. 3(1):122-35, 1959

DESCRIBED

Protozoa

Cercaria allotropicalis 1966

Hepatozoon legeri 1956 with Dagert & Iturriza

Hepatozoon didelphidis

Leishmania garnhami 1979 with Valera, Scorza, Carnevali, Moreno & Lugo Hernandez

Plasmodium pifanoi 1956 with Dagert

Plasmodium torrealbai 1957 with Dagert

Sarcocystis cervi 1957 with Torrealba & Dagert

Sarcocystis didelphis 1957 with Torrealba & Dagert

Toxoplasma serpai 1956 with Dagert & Iturriza Arocha

Trypanosoma ocumarensis 1955 with Dagert

Diptera (with Ortiz 1963)

Subgenus Pifanomyia

Brumptomyia devenanzii

Lutzomyia ottolinai

Nemopalpus torrealbai

Scorpiones

Neochactas orinicensis 1954

Teuthraustes carmelinae 1954

Tityus urbinai 1954

Tityus valeriae 1954

Others

Chordodes lichyi 1954

Klossiella tejerai 1957 with Torrealba & Dagert

Peripatus (Epiperipatus) torrealbai 1953