Luis Enrique Migone Mieres, Paraguayan microbiologist and parasitologist (Asunción 12 July 1876 – Asunción 13 July 1954)
From Italian father
ACHIEVEMENTS
Discovered Trypanosoma equinum, the etiologic agent of “mal de caderas”
With M. Elmassian. Sur le mal de caderas ou flagellose paresiante des equides sudamericaines. Ann. Inst. Pasteur 17:241-67, 1901
Authored a study about the role of capybara as intermediate host of Trypanosoma equinum, a paper translated to many languages
Le role des carpinchos comme reservoir de virus dans la conservation du mal de caderas. Bull. Soc. Path. Exot. 3:524-5, 1910
First to report American visceral leishmaniasis
Un cas de kalazar en Asunción (Paraguay). Bull. Soc. Path. Exot. 6:118-20, 1913
La buba du Paraguay, leishmaniose américaine. Bull. Soc. Path. Exot. 6:210-18, 1913
His studies on leishmaniasis and leprosy gained international repercussion
Studied bacteria and protozoan of plants and animals from Paraguay
Parasitologie de certains animaux du Paraguay. Bull. Soc. Path. Exot.9: 395-64, 1916
Flagelados de las plantas. Rev.Soc. Cien. Paraguay 1:35-9, 1922
Described and named the parasitic protozoa Phytomonas elmassiani 1916
Studied the therapeutic properties of aguai-guazu named Pouteria migonei in his honor
HONORS
Migonella Freitas & Lent 1946 (Nematoda)
Migonemyia Galati 1995 (Diptera)