Juan Enrique Mac Kinnon Artagaveytia, Uruguayan medical mycologist (Montevideo 24 June 1904 – Montevideo 16 April 1987)
ACHIEVEMENTS
Demonstrated that cell wall of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis was much thinner than that of Blastomyces dermatidis (1940s)
Proposed the existence of subclinical forms of paracoccidioidomycosis
First to detect infection caused by paracoccidiodomycosis (1953)
Proposed the currently accepted course of events in paracoccidioidomycosis (1959)
Demonstrated the various responses at distinct temperatures in paracoccidioidomycosis and sporotrichosis
With I.A. Conti Díaz first to note actinomycetoid granules surrounded by a crown of eosinophilic clubs in Pseudomonas aeruginosa (1969)
With Gezuelle & Conti Díaz noted a bulky capsule in cells of Phialophora spinifera until then undescribed (1973)
With R. Talice described the both fungal species Penicillium bertai 1929 and Aspergillus montevidensis 1931
With Ferrada Urzua & Montemayor described Madurella grisea, a new agent of maduromycosis (1949)
HONORS/OTHERS
Founder, International Society for Human and Animal Mycology
Rhoda Benham Award, Medical Mycology Society of Americas (1970)
LINKS
http://www.isham.org/heroes/ProfMacKinnon.html
http://www.smu.org.uy/dpmc/hmed/historia/articulos/mackinnon.pdf