Instituto Adolfo Lutz is an analytical laboratory accredited as a National Laboratory of Public Health and Reference Laboratory Macroregional by the

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. It is based in

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. It is the result of the combination of the Bacteriological Institute and the Dietetic Laboratories, participants in the Paulista Network of Health on October 26, 1940. The name of the new institute was a posthumous tribute to

Adolfo Lutz Adolfo Lutz (18 December 1855 – 6 October 1940) was a Brazilian physician, father of tropical medicine and medical zoology in Brazil, and a pioneer epidemiologist and researcher in infectious diseases. Life Lutz was born in Rio de Janeiro, on ...

, the first director of the Bacteriological Institute in 1892. The Institute works in the areas of Bromatology and

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and

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, and produces knowledge relevant to public health, developing applied research, promoting and disseminating scientific research, collaborating in the development of technical standards, standardizing diagnostic methods and analytical methods, and organizing courses in technical training, improvement, and specialization.

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