1 Chief, Chagas Disease National Program, Ministry of Health, Maracay, Aragua, Venezuela 2 Program in International Medicine, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 3 Pediatrics Service, 4 Infectious Diseases Service, 5 Pediatric Cardiology Service, Centro Clínico San Cristóbal, San Cristóbal, Táchira, Venezuela 6 Hematology Service, 7 Pathology Service, Hospital Central de San Cristóbal, S...

Luiz Hildebrando Pereira da Silva (1928-2014) graduated from the University of São Paulo Medical School in 1953 and shortly thereafter joined the Department of Parasitology, then chaired by Professor Samuel Pessoa, a leading Brazilian parasitologist. Samuel Pessoa and Luiz Hildebrando both shared a deep commitment to social problems. They considered it their duty to direct their scientific rese...

Two experiments were conducted, aimed at improving the practicability of the method for transcervical embryo collection in Boer goats described by Pereira et al. [Pereira, R.J.T.A., Sohnrey, B., Holtz, W., 1998. J. Anim. Sci. 76, 360-363]. Invention of a hammock-like restraining device, use of a wider-bore flushing catheter and a modified flushing mode contributed toward this end. The importanc...