Milestones of the work of Uruguayan professors of Parasitology

First communication: Dres. Angel Gaminara MD, and Rodolfo V. Talice, MD

Abstract

With the main purpose of keeping their memory alive, the main milestones in the scientific work of Ángel Gaminara, MD and Rodolfo V. Talice, MD, two Parasitology Professors of our School of Medicine, are presented, following a brief account of the beginning of the specialization in the country, as well as their pre­decessors.
To be pointed out: a) in 1923 Gaminara found wild bloodsucking conenose bugs (Triatoma rubrovaria) naturally infected with Trypanosoma cruzi, only 14 years after the discovery of the disease by Carlos Chagas, named after him; b) in 1918 the pathological processes were described and subsequently named ameboma-of-the-colon-gaminara-and-lasnier-disease; c) in 1937 the first human case of the Chagas disease was discovered by Talice; d) in 1940 the first 100 cases in Uruguay were published (a study that was awarded the Premio Soca, by Talice, MD, Costa, MD, Rial, MD, and Osimani, MD.