Parasitic Diseases Laboratory (São Paulo Campus)

The Parasitic Diseases Laboratory carries out research activities with projects related to Toxoplasmosis, Neosporosis and leishmaniasis, tick-borne diseases and studies of tick biology and epidemiology, with intense scientific exchange with international reference centers in the United States, Europe and several Latin American countries. This laboratory produces antigens for the diagnosis of spotted fever and Q fever used throughout the country, including some reference laboratories of the Ministry of Health (Instituto Adolpho Lutz, Fundação Ezequiel Dias).

The laboratory houses the “Danilo Gonçalves Saraiva National Tick Collection (CNC)”, which includes more than five thousand batches of ticks from all of Brazil's federal units and several Latin American countries, as well as some batches from North America, Africa, Asia and Europe. The CNC is considered to be the largest collection of ticks in Latin America, and is the faithful depository of several new species of ticks described in Latin America during this century. The laboratory has also collaborated with the São Paulo State Health Department, the Fauna Department of the Environment Department and the Health Surveillance Department of the Ministry of Health to evaluate and restructure the surveillance system for vector-borne zoonoses in São Paulo and Brazil.

Prof. Dr. Marcelo Bahia Labruna

Prof. Dr. Adriano Pinter dos Santos

Laboratory Specialist Hilda Fátima de Jesus Pena

Laboratory Technician Renato Caravieri

Laboratory Assistant Pedro César Ferreira da Silva

Laboratory Assistant Marcio de La Penha Chiacchio