The Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases (LDP) of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC/Fiocruz), created in 1980 as part of the Department of Tropical Medicine, produces relevant scientific knowledge, teaching and innovation in infectious and parasitic diseases, their agents, reservoirs and vectors, in different regions of the country, through clinical, epidemiological and biological studies to understand the dynamics of transmission of these diseases, as well as the biodiversity of the etiological agents and their vectors, integrating field and bench activities and care for the populations studied, and carrying out popularization and scientific dissemination actions.

The LDP houses the Protozoan Collection (Colprot), with a wide variety of representatives of the genus trypanosoma.

Among the diseases object of research are Chagas disease, malaria, filariasis, leishmaniasis, amoebiasis and other intestinal parasites, schistosomiasis and other helminthiases, their reservoir agents and vectors. 

The evaluation of biological, socioeconomic and environmental determinants, as well as control and elimination measures, are part of the research object of the group, which has a multidisciplinary team.  

The Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, accredited for the period 2023-2028, is the result of the merger of the Laboratories of Parasitic Diseases and Integrated Studies in Protozoology.

Head of the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases 
Martha Cecilia Suarez Mutis (Curriculum lattes) 

Deputy head of the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases 
Helena Lúcia Carneiro Santos (Curriculum lattes)