Hudson Alves Pinto
Professor
Parasitology
University of Minas
Brazil
Biography
Pharmacist-biochemist graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy of UFMG (2007). Master (2009) and doctor (2013) in Parasitology by the same institution. Adjunct Professor, Department of Parasitology, ICB, UFMG. Has experience in the field of Parasitology, with emphasis on Helminthology. It presents as main line of research the biological and taxonomic (morphological and molecular) study of larvae of trematodes transmitted by sweetcorn molluscs in Brazil.
Research Interest
Biology of Trematoda
Publications
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Pinto HA. ‘Cercarial dermatitis’ and ‘Cercariosis’: very broad terms. Trends in parasitology. 2016 May 1;32(5):351-2.
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Pinto HA, Jadin RC, Orlofske SA, Johnson PT, Melo AL. Biomphalaria straminea (Mollusca: Planorbidae) as an intermediate host of Ribeiroia sp.(Trematoda: Psilostomidae) in Brazil. The Journal of parasitology. 2013 Oct;99(5):914-8.
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Pinto HA, Mati VL, Pujoni DG, Melo AL. Platynosomum illiciens (Trematoda: Dicrocoeliidae) in Captive Black-Tufted Marmoset Callithrix penicillata (Primates: Cebidae) from Brazil: A Morphometric Analyses with Taxonomic Comments on Species of Platynosomum from Nonhuman Primates. Journal of Parasitology. 2017 Feb;103(1):14-21.
