Candido Macasaet Africa, Philippine parasitologist and tropical physician (Lipa, Batangas 02 October 1895 - Manila 12 February 1945)
Published 69 scientific papers
ACHIEVEMENTS
He was the first in the world to describe and report cases of heterophydiasis in human heart
First report of Cheilospirura hamulosa parasitizing the man
With E. Y. Garcia. A new nematode parasite (Cheilospirura sp.) in the eye of man in the Philippines. J. Phil. Is. Med. Assoc. 16:603-7, 1936
DESCRIBED HELMINTH TAXA
Genus
Heterophyopsis 1938 with Tubangui
Species
Candidotrema loossi 1930
Carneophallus brevicaeca 1935 with Garcia
Haplorchis vanissimus 1938
Heterophyopsis expectans 1938 with Tubangui
Plagiorchis philippinensis 1937
Procerovum calderoni 1935 with Garcia
Stictodora manilensis 1935 with Garcia
SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
With E.Y. Garcia & W. de Leon.Visceral Complications in Intestinal Heterophydiasis of Man. Acta Med. Philipp. (1940)
An attempt to elucidate the filtration of eggs of certain heterophyid trematodes into the general circulation (1938)
With W. de Leon. Observations on the mechanism of phagocytosis of various helminth ova (1938)
With P.G. Refuerzo & E.Y. Garcia. Observations on the life cycle of Gnathostoma spinigerum. Philipp. J. Science 59:513-23, 1936
With P.G. Refuerzo & E.Y. Garcia. Further observations on the life cycle of Gnathostoma spinigerum. Philipp. J. Science 61:221-5, 1936
The Occurrence of Bertiella in Man, Monkey and Dog in Philippines (1935)
Three Cases of Insect Bites involving Triatoma Rubrofasciata (1934)
An arthropod associated with chronic dermatitis involving the face (1933)
Studies on the host relations to Nippostrongylus muris with special reference to age resistance and caquired immunity. J. Parasit. 18:1-13, 1931
With E.Y. Garcia. Embryonated eggs of Ascaris lumbricoides in mesenteric tissue of man with special reference to possibility of autoinfection
With J.Z. Santa Cruz. Preliminary Reports in Cysticercous Cellulose in Man. J. P. M. A. 7:209-15, 1927
Notes on Malaria
Certain Developmental Stages of Ascaris lumbricoides ova in live tissue
HONORS
Candidotrema Dollfus 1951 (Trematoda)