Manuel Augusto Pirajá da Silva (Camamu, Bahia, Northeast Brazil 1873 — Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 1961) was a Brazilian parasitologist, medical researcher and physician.
He graduated from the Bahia School of Medicine (now part of the Federal University of Bahia) in 1896 and in 1908 was responsible for the identification and complete description of the pathogenic agent and the pathophysiological cycle of Schistosomiasis disease.
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