# Alejandro Posadas

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Not to be confused with the Colombian conductor [Alejandro Posada](/source/Alejandro_Posada).

**Alejandro Posadas** (December 28, 1870 – November 21, 1902) was an Argentine [physician](/source/Physician) and [surgeon](/source/Surgeon) specializing in pediatric surgery. He was the first person to film an operation and brought the first [x-ray](/source/X-ray) to the country of Argentina.

Posadas was the first person to describe [coccidioidomycosis](/source/Coccidioidomycosis) (later known as Posadas Disease) and *[Coccidioides posadasii](/source/Coccidioides_posadasii)* was named after him.[1]

A victim of [tuberculosis](/source/Tuberculosis), he died while studying in France in 1902 at the age of 31.

## Legacy

Hospital Nacional Dr. Alejandro Posadas in [Moron](/source/Mor%C3%B3n,_Buenos_Aires), Argentina, is named after him.[2]

## References

1. [Alejandro Posadas first describes *coccidioidomycosis* (Taxonomy)](http://www.mycologia.org/content/94/1/73.full). Retrieved 2016-01-18

1. ["Hospital Nacional Profesor Dr Alejandro Posadas – hospitales – Morón – Partido de morón – Buenos Aires – Argentina"](https://esp.hospitalsworldguide.com/hospitales-en-argentina/hospital-nacional-profesor-dr-alejandro-posadas-i69024/)

## Further reading

- ["Dr. Alejandro Posadas"](https://web.archive.org/web/20170202110532/http://www.edicionesmedicas.com.ar/Miscelaneas/Biografias_de_medicos/Dr._Alejandro_Posadas). *Biografías de médicos*. Ediciones Médicas. Archived from [the original](http://www.edicionesmedicas.com.ar/Miscelaneas/Biografias_de_medicos/Dr._Alejandro_Posadas) on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2017-01-18.

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