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(Dr. Candido Macasaet Africa (Photo credit: Images from the history of Medicine (http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/))
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While teaching at the state university, he became involved in scientific research. He wrote 69 scientific articles, some of which he co-authored with his colleagues Walfrido de Leon, E.Y. Garcia, P.G. Refuezo, F.J. Dy, J. Soriano, J.O. Nolasco, S.F. Sta. Cruz and A.V. Vasquez Colet. 



Among his important works were:



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The Progress of Medical Science In The Philippines,
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An Anthropod Associated with Chronic Dermatitis Involving The Face,
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Three Cases of Insect Bites Involving Triatoma Rubrofasciata, and 
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The Occurrence of Bartiella in Man, Monkey and Dog in the Philippines.
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Much of his researches dealt with parasites that caused heart failure. He also worked on their effects on the other parts of human body. He also undertook research on the causes and prevention of malaria.


In the course of his researches, he discovered four human flukes that attach themselves to the heart, resulting in disease and eventually death. This discovery was hailed as a significant contribution to medical science as it greatly benefited heart patients.


Dr. Africa also studied at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and graduated with the Degree of Tropical Medicine in 1929. That same year he became a Fellow in the Tropen Institute of Humburg, Germany. A year later, he received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. It allowed him to attend the Harvard Medical School at Cambridge, Massachusetts and John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland in 1930-1931.


In recognition of his extensive contributions to scientific research, his works were compiled in special books and were exhibited in 1937, during the silver jubilee of Dr. Sadao Yosida of the Institute for Research in Microbic Diseases of the Osaka Imperial University of
Japan. In the same year, his works were also exhibited at the silver jubilee of Professor Sadamu Yokogawa of the Taihoku Imperial University in Formosa (now Taiwan) and in the 30th year of the professorship of Dr. K.J. Skrajabin of the All-Union Institute of Helminthology in Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In 1938, in the silver jubilee of the professorship of Dr. Lauro Travassos of the Institute of Oswaldo Cruz in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, his works were also displayed.


Dr. Africa was known all over the world all over the works for his researches. This allowed him to visit leading laboratories undertaking experiments in parasitology in London, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Paris, Utrecht, Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, and in other cities in Europe. He
represented the Philippine Commonwealth at the Third International Congress of Microbiologist held in New York City, U.S.A., on September 1939. At this international gathering of well-known scientist, he read a monograph entitled, "Visceral Complications in Intestinal Heterophydiasis of Man".


His other valuable works include 



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Certain Developmental Stages of Ascaris Lumbriocoides Ova in Live Tissue, 
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Prelimanary Reports in Cystercerous Cellulose in Man,
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Notes on Malaria.
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October 2, 1895: Dr. Candido Macasaet Africa was born in Lipa, Batangas