Carlos Bastos Magarinos Torres, Brazilian anatomical pathologist (Rio de Janeiro 24 November 1891 – Rio de Janeiro 26 January 1984)
Authored over 162 works
ACHIEVEMENTS
Described histopathological alterations in cardiac striated muscle lesions in Chagas disease known as Magarinos Torres lesions
Estudo do miocardio na moléstia de Chagas. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 9:114-39, 1917
Introduced the concept of allergy in Chagas disease pathogeny (1929)
With A.P. de Azevedo described multinuclear giant cells filled with leishmanioid bodies in Chagas disease (1939)
Reported the second case of toxoplasmosis in the world and the first to be described of the generalized form of the infection
Described the first case of congenital toxoplasmosis in universal literature
Sur un nouvelle maladie de l’homme, caracterisé par la présence d’un parasite intracellulaire, três proche du toxoplasme et de l’Encephalolitozoon, dans le tissu musculaire cardiaque, les muscles du squelette, le tissu céllulaire sous-cutané et le tissue nerveux. C.R. Soc. Biol. 97:1178-9, 1927
Sobre uma nova entidade morbida do homem caracterizada por meningoencefalite, miosite e miocardite aguda congênitas, associadas a presença, nos respectivos tecidos de um novo parasita, Encephalitozoon chagasi. Bras. Med. 42:1-14, 1928
Described anatomopathologically the toxoplasmosis
Described Magarinos Torres bodies, oxychromatic bodies with intranuclear inclusions in hepatic cells affected by yellow fever
Inclusions nucleaires acidophiles (dégénérescence oxychromatique) dans le foie de Macacus rhésus, inocule avec le vírus brésilien de La fievre jaune. Compt. Rend. Soc. Biol. 99:1344-5, 1928
Individualized and named chromoblastomycosis
With Fernando Terra, O. Fonseca & Area Leão. Novo typo de dermatite verrucosa, mycose por Acrotheca com associação de leishmaniosa. Bras.Med. 36(2):368-78, 1922.
With J. C. Teixeira first cultured measles virus (1935)
Developed a method for diagnosing alastrim
With J.C. Teixeira. Método para o diagnóstico do alastrim. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 32:543, 1937
With C. Pinto demonstrated the mode of eliminating eggs by Schistosoma mansoni in gastrointestinal tube (1945)
EPONYMY
Torres-Teixeira bodies
Janko-Magarinos Torres disease or human toxoplasmosis
Ribas-Torres disease or variola minor
Magarinos Torres degeneration