Frederico Adolfo Simões Barbosa, Brazilian parasitologist and tropical physician (Recife 27 July 1916 - Recife 08 March 2004)
ACHIEVEMENTS
Published 220 scientific works
Specialized in schistosomal epidemiology
World Health Organization (WHO) expert on parasitary diseases (1960-70)
Reported interspecific competition in mollusks demonstrating species substitution in schistosomiasis (1973)
Developed a quantitative coprological method for diagnosing schistosomiasis in
Morbidade na Esquistossomose. Thesis, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Recife (1965)
Método para contagem de ovos de Schistosoma nas fezes. Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. S. Paulo 11(6):442-3, 1969
With J.M. Barbosa & T.A. Figueiredo. A technique for testing chemicals as moluscicids. Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Tropical 3(2):101-3, 1969
DESCRIBED VALID DIPTERA SPECIES
Culicoides alahialinus 1952
Culicoides equatoriensis 1952
Culicoides leoni 1952
Culicoides panamensis 1947
Culicoides paucienfuscatus 1947
FUNGI
Hyalopus cordoniformis (1941)
HONORS
Culicoides barbosai (Wirth & Blanton) 1956
Echinostoma barbosai (Lie & Barth) 1966
Sepedonea barbosai (Knutson & Bredt) 1976