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From Magic to Science: a journey through Latin American Medical Mycology
Mayan culture: Stone mushrooms (Guatemala and El Salvador) A.- Last classic period, around 900 AD B.- Last pre-classic period, 500BC to 200 AD
Aztec culture, Teotihuacan III period, 300-600 AD Fresco at Tepantlita: Soul arriving at recreation fields of Paradise
The natives saw hallucinations provoked by mushrooms as a source of divine revelations...
...but the Conquerors were not as open-minded
Bernardino de Sahagún (1529-1590) Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España Bilingual (Spanish-Nahuatl) book
Aztec culture, Teotihuacan III period, 300-600 AD A.- Fresco at Teopancalco (fragment) B.- Fresco at Sacuala, Teotihuacan
Codex Borbonicus (16th Century) Image of Tlaloc, god of the waters, with mushroom symbols
Codex Borbonicus (16th Century) Sorcerers in a cave close to a river
Diego Durán (1618): Historia de las Indias de Nueva España Foundation of Tenochtitlan
Alejandro Posadas and Coccidioides immitis (Argentina, 1892)
Guillermo Seeber (Argentina, 1896) and Rhinosporidium seeberi (Niño, 1938)
Adolpho Lutz? (Brazil, 1908) and Paracoccidioides brasiliensis (Splendore?, 1912; Almeida?, 1930)
Jorge Lobo and Jorge Lobo’s disease (Brazil, 1931) Paracoccidioides loboi (Almeida and Lacaz, 1949) Loboa loboi (Ciferri et al., 1956) Lacazia loboi (Taborda et al., 1999)
Carlos da Silva Lacaz (1915- ) (Brazil)
Paulo Parreiras Horta (Brazil, 1911) and Piedraia hortae (Fonseca, 1928)
Agents of chromomycosis: (a) Fonsecaea pedrosoi [after O. Fonseca? (Negroni?, 1936) and A. Pedroso (Brumpt, 1921)]
Agents of chromomycosis: (b) Cladosporium (Cladophialophora) carrionii (after A. Carrión?, Puerto Rico) (Trejos?, Costa Rica, 1954)
Agent of feohyphomycosis: Cladosporium werneckii (after Machado Werneck, Brazil) (Horta, 1921)
Juan Mackinnon (1905-1987) (Uruguay, ISHAM President, 1958-1962) and Pyrenochaeta mackinnoni (Borelli, 1976)
Dante Borelli (Venezuela) (1920-1997)
Luis M. Carbonell (1925- ) (Venezuela) and Mycology Lab., Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research
Antonio González-Ochoa (1911-1984) (Mexico)
Angela Restrepo (Colombia)
Pablo Negroni? (1904-1992)
Trends in mycological areas of interest, late 60’s onwards....
Fungal Differentiation: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Modelling
Number of papers from Latin American countries presented in some ISHAM Congresses
Number of papers from Latin American countries published in the ISHAM journals
Revista Iberoamericana de Micología Organ of the Spanish Mycological Association and the Brazilian Mycological Society
Revista Iberoamericana de Micología, 1997-1999 Latin American papers vs other regions
Revista Iberoamericana de Micología, 1997-1999 Languages of papers from Spain and America
Incorporation of women in mycological research, late 60’s onwards....
J. Med. Vet. Mycol. 1987 Distribution of authors by genre
Revista Iberoamericana de Micología 1997-1999 Distribution of authors by genre
Women in the scientific establishment
Milestones in the Latin American Mycological establishment from 1979 onwards
International Meetings on Paracoccidioidomycosis
No. papers presented in Paracoccidioidomycosis meetings
1st. Paracoccidioidomycosis Meeting, Barra Bonita, São Paulo, Brazil, 1979 Distribution of papers by countries
2nd. Paracoccidioidomycosis Meeting, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil, 1983 Distribution of papers by countries
3rd. Paracoccidioidomycosis Meeting, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia, 1986 Distribution of papers by countries
4th. Paracoccidioidomycosis Meeting, Caracas, Venezuela, 1989 Distribution of papers by countries
5th. Paracoccidioidomycosis Meeting, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1992 Distribution of papers by countries
6th. Paracoccidioidomycosis Meeting, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1996 Distribution of papers by countries
7th. Paracoccidioidomycosis Meeting, Campos do Jordão, São Paulo, Brazil, 1999 Distribution of papers by countries
Areas of interest in Paracoccidioidomycosis meetings
Asociación Latinoamericana de Micología (ALM) Latin American Association for Mycology
ALM’s 1st Virtual Symposium Molecular Mycology April 20-24, 1998
ALM’s 2nd Virtual Symposium Mycotoxins October 19-23, 1998
ALM’s 3rd Virtual Symposium Epidemiology of Mycoses in the Americas June 14-23, 1999
ALM’s III Latin American Mycological Congress Caracas, Venezuela, September 1999
Buenos Aires, May 8 - 12, 2000
Acknowledgements
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Autor: Gioconda San Blas
Correo electrónico: sanblasg@ivic.ve
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