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Final remarks on the helminths of the Instituto Bacteriológico de São Paulo, incorporated to the Helminthological Collection of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

This note supplies recent data on the present status of helminths collected by Adolpho Lutz (Bacteriological Institute of São Paulo) between 1905-1909, studied by Travassos (1917) and referred by the author as deposited in the Helminthological Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (CHIOC). In the present paper, some innacuracies related to the paper of Travassos (1917) and that have been overlooked to date are evaluated and elucidated.

Helminthological collections; historical data; updating


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