02052nas a2200289   4500000000100000008004100001260001300042653001200055653001100067653002200078653001500100653002600115653002600141653001100167653002200178653001900200653001200219653002300231653001700254653001700271100001800288245006600306300001100372490000700383520135800390022001401748       2005                            d  c2005 Dec10aAnimals10aBrazil10aDisease Outbreaks10aEntomology10aHistory, 19th Century10aHistory, 20th Century10aHumans10aInfection Control10aInsect Vectors10aMalaria10aParasitic Diseases10aParasitology10aYellow Fever1 aBenchimol J L00aAdolpho Lutz and the origins of medical entomology in Brazil.  a279-890 v473 a<p>Adolpho Lutz (1855-1940) formed a bridge between the Bahian Tropicalist School and post-Mansonian medicine. Before taking over as head of the São Paulo Bacteriological Institute (1893), Lutz traveled through a variety of regions and delved into various disciplines. In the 1880s, he was already arguing that leprosy was transmitted by mosquitoes. Carbuncles, cholera, and typhoid fever were then the accepted models for investigating the etiology of infectious diseases. Following the discovery of how malaria was transmitted, attention turned to hematophagous diptera. Physicians, bacteriologists, zoologists, and veterinarians reshaped the network of actors involved in the 'hunt' for the agents and transmitters of diseases, as they began relying on analogies with malaria and yellow fever. Edwin Ray Lankester, director of the British Museum (Natural History), launched then a worldwide investigation into species that might be linked to human disease. The species described by Lutz and his proposed classification system were vital to Frederick Theobald's fundamental work in medical entomology, published in the early twentieth century. In 1908, Lutz brought with him to the Oswaldo Cruz Institute a remarkable quantity of research and experiments in all branches of the newly created "tropical medicine," devoted especially to entomology.</p>  a0048-2951