Paulo de Figueiredo Parreiras Horta, Brazilian physician (Rio de Janeiro 24 January 1884 – Rio de Janeiro 29 July 1961)
ACHIEVEMENTS
Authored a clinical description of black piedra. The causative agent was named Piedraia hortae in his honor
Sobre uma nova forma de piedra. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 3:86-107, 1911
Described the asci in the nodules of black piedra known as bright spots or Horta cysts
Described the first case of tinea nigra and isolated its causative agent as Cladosporium werneckii. This fungus was incorporated in genus Hortaea later.
Sobre um caso de tinha preta e um cogumelo (Cladosporium werneckii). Rev. Med. Cir. Bras. 29:269, 1921
A new human mycosis
Sobre uma nova micose humana. Brasil Med. 50:395, 1919
Described new pathogenic fungi
Contribuições para o estudo das dermatomicoses no Brasil. I. Microsporon flavescens. n.sp. agente duma nova tinha microsporica. Mem.Inst. Oswaldo Cruz (today Microsporum flavescens)
Uma nova tinha microsporica brasileira. Microsporon ramos n.sp. Brasil Medico 38:59, 1924 (today Microsporum ramos)
Um novo mycetoma de grãos negros, produzido pela Madurella oswaldoi n. sp.. Pathologia Geral 4:1, 1919
Described the genus Fusariopsis and the type species Fusariopsis derrienii (1919)
DESCRIBED
Helminths (with L. Travassos)
Genus Ornithostrongylus 1915
Ornithostrongylus fariai 1915
Acheilostoma paranecator 1915
Protozoa
Trypanosoma chagasi 1911 with A. Machado
OTHERS
With A. Carini discovered that bats can transmit rabies (1911). This fact was confirmed by German scientists in 1914
Described a new veterinarian disease
Uma nova moléstia de bovinos e ovinos. Rev. Vet. Zootech. 8(2):3-32, 1918
HONORS
Hortaea Nishimura & Miyagi 1985 (Fungi)