Manuel Augusto Pirajá da Silva, Brazilian parasitologist (Camamu, Bahia State 28 January 1873 – São Paulo 01 January 1961)

ACHIEVEMENTS

Performed first complete description of Schistosoma mansoni and clarified his full life cycle

La schistosome à Bahia. Arch. Parasit. 13:415, 1908 

First to correlate mansonic schistosomiasis and glomerulopathy (1908)

First described schistosomal cercaria

Cercaire brésilienne (Cercaria blanchardi) à queue bifurquée. Arch. Parasit. 15:398-400, 1912 

Demonstrated transmission mode of Trypanosoma cruzi by faeces of its vector

With E. Brumpt. Existence du Schizotrypanum cruzi Chagas, 1909 à Bahia (Matta de São João). Biologie du Conorhinus megistus. Bull. Soc. Pathol. Exot. 5(1):22-6, 1912

Perfected treatment technique of cutaneous leishmaniasis by employing tartar emetic  

Described fungi Discomyces bahiensis 1919 and Madurella brumptii 1922 that cause maduromycosis

HONORS

Bernhard Nocht Medal, Bernhard Nocht Institut für Tropenmedizin, Hamburg  (1954)

 Manson-Pirajá da Silva disease or Mansonic Schistosomiasis