Fiocruz-CMM - Coleção de Malacologia Médica
Fiocruz - Fundação Oswaldo CruzInstituto René Rachou
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz - CPqRR;
Av. Augusto de Lima, 1715 - Barro Preto
Belo Horizonte - MG - Brazil
30190-002
cmm@fiocruz.br
The Collection of Medical Malacology (Fiocruz-CMM) is located at the CPqRR’s Laboratory of Helminthology and Medical Malacology (LHMM), Fiocruz/MG . The collection includes samples of mollusks from Germany, France, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, and Venezuela. This collection is comprised of representatives of the genera Biomphalaria Preston, 1910, Lymnaea Lamarck, 1799, Pseudosuccinea (Say, 1817), Galba d’Orbigny, 1835, Physa Draparnaud, 1801; Drepanotrema Fischer & Crosse, 1880; Helisoma Swainson, 1840; Melanoides Olivier, 1804. The fourth ones genera include, the Brazilian, intermediate hosts of the trematodes Schistosoma mansoni Sambon, 1907 and Fasciola hepatica (Linnaeus, 1758), etiological agents of schistosomiasis mansoni and fasciolosis. Fiocruz-CMM is an important collection for the national system of epidemiological control and health surveillance and is directly related to research activities and the LHMM’s National Schistosomiasis Reference Service, mostly aimed at mollusks of the Biomphalaria genus.
Online since: 05/04/2010Last update: 19/08/2021
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Conditions for using the data
Available in the 'Policy for the Access of Data and Information on the Biological Collections', attached to the Organization Guide for the Biological Collections of Fiocruz, which can be obtained on the <a target='_blank' href='https://portal.fiocruz.br/pt-br/content/cole%C3%A7%C3%B5es-biol%C3%B3gicas'> Biological Collections </a> web page from Fiocruz Portal.
How to cite
Coleção de Malacologia Médica, CMM (http://cmm.fiocruz.br/)
Contacts
Director or head of department:Roberto Sena Rocha
roberto.rocha@fiocruz.br
Curator:
Cristiane Lafeta Furtado de Mendonça
cristiane.lafeta@fiocruz.br
Substitute curator:
Roberta Lima Caldeira
roberta.caldeira@fiocruz.br
Technician:
Júlia Dal Ferro Rodrigues Pessoa
julia.pessoa@fiocruz.br