Olympio Arthur Oliveira Ribeiro da Fonseca, Brazilian physician (Rio de Janeiro 07 May 1895 – Rio de Janeiro 19 April 1978)
Brother of Brazilian zoologist Flávio da Fonseca
ACHIEVEMENTS
Performed studies in mycology, parasitology and tropical medicine
Authored 150 works
Showed that the pandemic flu was a virosis independently
With A.M. Cunha & O. Magalhães. Estudos experimentais sobre a influenza pandemica. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 10:174-91, 1918
First to demonstrate a sexual process in reproduction of blastomycosis-causating pathogenic yeasts in man (Debaryomyces sp.), 1922
Individualized and named chromoblastomycosis
With Fernando Terra, Magarinos Torres & Area Leão. Novo typo de dermatite verrucosa, mycose por Acrotheca com associação de leishmaniosa. Bras.Med. 2:368-78, 1922.
Developed the first specific skin test for paracoccidiodomycosis
With A.E. Area Leão. Reaction cutanee specifique avec le filtrat de cellule du Coccidioides immitis. Comp. Rend. Seances Soc. Biol. 97:1796-7, 1927
First to note Aspergillus amstelodami causing black grains mycetoma of feet (1929)
DESCRIBED
Protozoa Genera
Chilomitus 1915
Enteromonas 1915
Globomonas 1918
Tetrachilomastix 1915
Described about 30 new Protozoan species
Fungi Genera
Glenosporopsis 1943
Piedraia 1928 with Area Leão
Pochonia 1965 with Batista
Teratoschaeta 1967 with Batista
Diptera Subgenus
Pseudoscione 1918 with Lutz & Souza Araújo
HONORS
Fonsecaia Pinto 1918 (Protozoa)
Fonsecaea Negroni 1936 (Fungi)
OTHERS
Honoris Causa, Université de Paris (1952)
Honorary President, VI (Rome) & VII (Stockholm) International Congress of Microbiology
TRIVIA
Set up the second in importance mycological collection in the world, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (1920s)