Alejandro Posadas and Coccidioides immitis (Argentina, 1892)

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Medical Mycology in Latin America

On 1892, Alejandro Posadas, then a student of Medicine in Buenos Aires, Argentina, joined the experimental pathology laboratory led by Roberto Wernicke. There, Posadas noted microscopically and for the first time a fungus that resembled a coccidia protozoan [4, 5]: Coccidioides immitis

[4] Lobo J. Contribução ao estudo das blastomycoses. Tese de livre-docência à cadeira de Dermatologia e Sifilografia na Faculdade Medica de Recife, Brazil, 1933.

[5] Pappagianis D. Coccidioides immitis. In: Ajello L, Hay RJ, eds. Medical Mycology, Vol 4, Topley & Wilson’s Microbiology and Microbial Infections. London: Arnold, 1998; 357-371.