The wellcome unit no. 1: twenty-one-years of contributions in the field of tropical parasitology

Abstract

To give an account of the Unit's 21 years of research in these few pages is no mean task, embodying as it does some 200 publications on Leiskmania, Trypanosoma and a variety of other parasites. Fortunately we have recently done this in the two-volumed book (Anonymous, 1986) commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Instituto Evandro Chagas — also celebrated, by happy coincidence, in 1986. All the Unit's publications up to 1985 are listed in this fascinating account of the history and achievements of this famous Brazilian centre of biomedical research. Unless otherwise stated, reference to observations other than those by the Unit are also to be found in this book. Here, I propose to discuss only some of the Belém Unit's major contributions and a few of the difficulties we confronted in making them.