Adolpho Lutz and the origins of medical entomology in Brazil

It shows how Adolpho Lutz (1855-1940) formed a bridge between the Bahian Tropicalist School and post-Mansonian medicine.(AU)

Adolpho Lutz and the origins of medical entomology in Brazil.

Adolpho Lutz (1855-1940) formed a bridge between the Bahian Tropicalist School and post-Mansonian medicine. Before taking over as head of the São Paulo Bacteriological Institute (1893), Lutz traveled through a variety of regions and delved into various disciplines. In the 1880s, he was already arguing that leprosy was transmitted by mosquitoes. Carbuncles, cholera, and typhoid fever were then the accepted models for investigating the etiology of infectious diseases. Following the discovery of how malaria was transmitted, attention turned to hematophagous diptera. Physicians, bacteriologists, zoologists, and veterinarians reshaped the network of actors involved in the 'hunt' for the agents and transmitters of diseases, as they began relying on analogies with malaria and yellow fever. Edwin Ray Lankester, director of the British Museum (Natural History), launched then a worldwide investigation into species that might be linked to human disease. The species described by Lutz and his proposed classification system were vital to Frederick Theobald's fundamental work in medical entomology, published in the early twentieth century. In 1908, Lutz brought with him to the Oswaldo Cruz Institute a remarkable quantity of research and experiments in all branches of the newly created "tropical medicine," devoted especially to entomology.

Entomologia - Tabanídeos

Volume dedicado aos estudos que Adolpho Lutz produziu a respeito de entomologia (tabanídeos).

Entomologia - Tabanídeos / Entomology - Tabanidae

Volume dedicado aos estudos que Adolpho Lutz produziu a respeito de entomologia (tabanídeos).

Adolpho Lutz: obra completa / Adolpho Lutz: complete works

Após introduçäo sobre a formaçäo de Adolpho Lutz e sua capacitaçäo como cientista, analisa alguns trechos de relatórios do Instituto Bacteriológico de 1893 a 1908; o parecer de Adolpho Lutz sobre um soro proposto para o tratamento da febre amarela; o relatório sobre sua missäo em Montevidéu para verificar a provável "descoberta" do Dr. Sanarelli relativa ao micróbio da febre amarela; os trabalhos sobre a febre amarela em Säo Paulo e sobre o mosquito como seu agente de propagaçäo; a descoberta da malária silvestre; as instruções para profilaxia do impaludismo; e, finalmente, as suas "Reminiscências da febre amarela no Estado de Säo Paulo", publicadas em 1930, quando Adolpho Lutz já era pesquisador do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz havia mais de 20 anos. (AU)

[Adolpho Lutz's collection of black flies (Diptera - Simuliidae), its history and importance]. / Coleção de simuliídeos (Diptera - Simuliidae) de Adolpho Lutz, sua história e importância.

This is part of a master's thesis currently being written under the auspices of the Post-Graduate Program in Animal Biology of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, with support from CAPES. It presents the species of black flies in Adolpho Lutz's collection, held at the Laboratory of Black Flies and Oncocercosis of the Department of Entomology of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. A pioneer in the study of these dipterons, Lutz described about 25 species from different places in Brazil. A vector of round worm, the black fly's importance to public health was recognized at the end of the 1920s.