Evandro Serafim Lobo Chagas (August 10, 1905 – November 8, 1940) the eldest son of
Carlos Chagas
Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas, or Carlos Chagas (; July 9, 1879 – November 8, 1934), was a Brazilian sanitary physician, scientist, and bacteriologist who worked as a clinician and researcher. He discovered Chagas disease, also called ''A ...
(1879-1934), noted physician and scientist who discovered
Chagas disease, and brother of
Carlos Chagas Filho (1910-2000), also a noted physician and scientist who was president of the
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
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.
In 1926 Evandro Chagas got diploma from the Faculty of Medicine of Rio de Janeiro and made residence at
Hospital São Francisco de Assis and at
Hospital Oswaldo Cruz. At the same time, he attended the specialization course in microbiology at the
Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Portuguese ''Fundação Oswaldo Cruz'', also known as FIOCRUZ) is a scientific institution for research and development in biological sciences located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; it is considered one of the world's ma ...
.
In 1930 he became professor at Clinical Infectious and Tropical Diseases (in Portuguese: Clínica de Doenças Tropicais e Infecciosas) at the
Faculty of Medicine of Rio de Janeiro, whose discipline was taught by his father, Carlos Chagas. To fill the vacancy, he defended as a thesis the cardiac form of
American trypanosomiasis. Being one of the pioneers in the use of
electrocardiography has made significant contributions on Chagas disease.
He conducted studies on
Yellow Fever
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,
Malaria
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,
Hookworm, and especially about the
Leishmaniasis, discovering the first human cases of the disease and conducting clinical and epidemiological investigations in several states in
Brazil
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and in
Argentina
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.
In 1931 he held the position of Human Pathology Section (in Portuguese: Seção de Patologia Humana) of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz and, in 1935, represented the institution at the Ninth Meeting of the Argentine Society of Pathology North Regional, held in the city of
Mendoza to honor the memory of Carlos Chagas, newly deceased.
Upon returning from Argentina, he organized the service of Endemic Diseases Study, to coordinate a plan of medical and health research in several Brazilian states, promoting important research, especially on Malaria, Leishmaniasis and Chagas Disease. He also created, in 1936, the Institute of Experimental Pathology of North (in Portuguese: Instituto de Patologia Experimental do Norte), located in
Belém
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,
Pará
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state,
Brazil
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it operated as a subsidiary of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz; later it would bear his name,
Instituto Evandro Chagas (today one of the best known institutes on tropical medicine and virology in the world).
Evandro Chagas died at an air crash in Rio de Janeiro on November 8, 1940, aged 35.
References
1905 births
1940 deaths
Brazilian tropical physicians
Chagas disease
20th-century Brazilian physicians
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Brazil
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1940
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