Ultrastructure of endogenous stages of Eimeria ninakohlyakimovae Yakimoff & Rastegaieff, 1930 Emend. Levine, 1961 in experimentally infected goat.

abstract：:The leishmanicidal activity of four batches of meglumine antimoniate, produced in Farmanguinhos-Fiocruz, Brazil (TAMs), was assessed and compared to Glucantime-Aventis Pharma Ltda. Using the amastigote-like in vitro model, the active concentrations of Sb v varied from 10microg/ml to 300microg/ml for L. (L.) chagasi an...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Morais-Teixeira Ed,Carvalho AS,Costa JC,Duarte SL,Mendonça JS,Boechat N,Rabello A

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspartyl proteases are a class of enzymes that include the yeast aspartyl proteases and secreted aspartyl protease (Sap) superfamilies. Several Sap superfamily members have been demonstrated or suggested as virulence factors in opportunistic pathogens of the genus Candida. Candida albicans, Candida tropicalis, Candida...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Parra-Ortega B,Cruz-Torres H,Villa-Tanaca L,Hernández-Rodríguez C

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four cross sectional studies on morbidity of schistosomiasis mansoni were carried out respectively in 1973, 1974, 1979 and 1983 in the Village of Capitão Andrade, District of Itanhomi, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, through clinical and fecal examination of the population. In addition a comparison was made of the dina...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Coura JR,Conceição MJ,Pereira JB

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several genes related to the ubiquitin (Ub)-proteasome pathway, including those coding for proteasome subunits and conjugation enzymes, are differentially expressed during the Schistosoma mansoni life cycle. Although deubiquitinating enzymes have been reported to be negative regulators of protein ubiquitination and sh...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Pereira RV,Vieira HG,Oliveira VF,Gomes Mde S,Passos LK,Borges Wde C,Guerra-Sá R

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretically, serological assays with affinity purified marker antigens can allow strain-specific diagnosis even when parasites cannot be retrieved from an infected host. A Trypanosoma cruzi antigen was purified by affinity chromatography using a zymodeme (Z) 2 specific monoclonal antibody (2E2C11). An indirect enzym...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Schechter M

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphometrics of Brazilian strains (BH, SJ and CMO) of Schistosoma mansoni cercariae were obtained with a computerized image analyzer (IMAGE PRO PLUS, MEDIA CYBERNETICS), considering the following characters: body area, tail, furcae, oral and ventral suckers and distance between them. For statistical analysis, the var...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Machado-Silva JR,da Silva CH,Pereira MJ,de Oliveira RM,Pinto RM,Gomes DC

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Elisa) was used to examine sera of 104 children and adults in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria for anti-toxocaral antibodies, out of which 31 (29.8%) were reactive. The seropositive rates were 30.4% for adults, 29.6% for children, 34% for females and 25.9% for males. However, the diff...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Ajayi OO,Duhlinska DD,Agwale SM,Njoku M

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experimental murine model was used to verify the viability and pathogenicity of coccoid Helicobacter pylori. For this purpose, 27 BALB/c mice were inoculated intragastrically with 1 ml broth culture (10(8)organisms/ml) of a coccoid H. pylori clinical isolate. The animals were divided into two groups. Nine were infe...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Rabelo-Gonçalves EM,Nishimura NF,Zeitune JM

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma cruzi infection has a large public health impact in Latin American countries. Although the transmission rates via blood transfusions and insect vectors have declined sharply in the past 20 years due to policies of the Southern Cone countries, a large number of people are still at risk for infection. Curren...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Silva DR,Castro SL,Alves MC,Batista Wda S,Oliveira GM

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal malnutrition during the lactation period in early development may have long-term programming effects on adult offspring. We evaluated the combined effects of parasitological behaviour and histopathological features and malnutrition during lactation. Lactating mice and their pups were divided into a control gr...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Corrêa CL,Lisboa PC,Oliveira Ed,Moura EG,Oliveira RM,Gomes AC,Machado-Silva JR

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The global malaria situation has scarcely improved in the last 100 years, despite major advances in our knowledge of the basic biology, epidemiology and clinical basis of the disease. Effective malaria control, leading to a significant decrease in the morbidity and mortality attributable to malaria, will require a mul...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Riley EM

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the genotypes of Giardia lamblia from human and animal feces and their epidemiological and clinical characteristics in Argentina, South America. Seventy isolates, 60 from humans (adults and children), eight from dogs and two from cows were processed by polymerase chain reac...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Minvielle MC,Molina NB,Polverino D,Basualdo JA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigation of the aetiology of viral meningitis in Brazil is most often restricted to cases that occur in the Southern and Southeastern Regions; therefore, the purpose of this study is to describe the viral meningitis cases that occurred in state of Pará, Northern Brazil, from January 2005-December 2006. The detect...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Castro CM,Oliveira DS,Macedo O,Lima MJ,Santana MB,Wanzeller AL,Silveira Ed,Gomes Mde L

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study objective was to evaluate the cytokines associated with early events of hepatic fibrosis in schistosomiasis mansoni. Hepatic fibrosis was classified by ultrasonography in 94 patients. Immunological evaluation was performed by measurement of secreted cytokines (interleukin IL-5, IL-10, IL-13, interferon-gamm...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Magalhães A,Miranda DG,Miranda RG,Araújo MI,Jesus AA,Silva A,Santana LB,Pearce E,Carvalho EM,Jesus AR

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lutzomyia (Lutzomyia) falquetoi, sp. nov. (Diptera: Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) is described from the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil. This new species belongs to the series longipalpis and is easily distinguished from the other members of this taxon by the presence of five well-developed spines and a pre-apical spini...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Pinto Ide S,Dos Santos CB

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to analyse changes in the spatial distribution of Lutzomyia longipalpis in Posadas, an urban area located in northeastern Argentina. Data were obtained during the summer of 2007 and 2009 through two entomological surveys of peridomiciles distributed around the city. The abundance distribution pattern ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Fernández MS,Santini MS,Cavia R,Sandoval AE,Pérez AA,Acardi S,Salomón OD

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Brazil, the Yellow Fever virus (YFV) is endemic in the Amazon, from where it eventually expands into epidemic waves. Coastal south-eastern (SE) Brazil, which has been a YFV-free region for eight decades, has reported a severe sylvatic outbreak since 2016. The virus spread from the north toward the south o...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Abreu FVS,Delatorre E,Dos Santos AAC,Ferreira-de-Brito A,de Castro MG,Ribeiro IP,Furtado ND,Vargas WP,Ribeiro MS,Meneguete P,Bonaldo MC,Bello G,Lourenço-de-Oliveira R

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between pyogenic liver abscesses and schistosomiasis has been confirmed by clinical and experimental studies. In this retrospective study of 78 patients with pyogenic liver abscesses the association with schistosomiasis has been investigated. Pyodermitis, a known focus of bacteremia, was observed in 19...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Teixeira R,Pfeilsticker FJ,Santa Cecília GD,Nobre V,Fonseca LP,Serufo JC,Coelho PM,Lambertucci JR

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute cases of schistosomiasis have been found on the coastal area of Pernambuco, Brazil, due to environmental disturbances and disorderly occupation of the urban areas. This study identifies and spatially marks the main foci of the snail host species, Biomphalaria glabrata on Itamaracá Island. The chaotic occupation ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Barbosa CS,Araújo KC,Antunes L,Favre T,Pieri OS

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxicological and toxicogenetic effects of aqueous (tea) and hexanic fruit extract of Indigofera suffruticosa Mill. and hydroalcoholic root extract of Solanum agrarium Stendt. were evaluated in Balb C male mice intraperitoneally exposed. A hepatotoxic effect was observed just for animals treated with aqueous fruit ext...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Ribeiro LR,Bautista AR,Silva AR,Sales LA,Salvadori DM,Maia PC

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats and mice are among the most susceptible hosts for the helminth Capillaria hepatica. More information on the similarities and differences between the hepatic pathology presented by these two parasite hosts are needed, since they may represent good models for the study of hepatic fibrosis. Early changes are similar...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Andrade SB,Andrade ZA

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In laboratory trials an aqueous solution of Piquerol A from Piqueria trinervia, collected in several regions of Mexico, showed a molluscicide action on the adults of eight different pulmonates snails species: Fossaria (Fossaria) humilis, F. (Bakerilymnaea) sp., Pseudosuccinea columella and Stagnicola attenuata from Me...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Cruz-Reyes A,Chavarin C,Campos Arias MP,Taboada J,Jimenez M

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A polysaccharide-rich fraction (ATF) of medicinal mushroom Agaricus brasiliensis was evaluated on the candidacidal activity, H2O2 and nitric oxide (NO) production, and expression of mannose receptors by murine peritoneal macrophages. Mice received three intraperitoneal (i.p.) injections of ATF and after 48 h their per...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Martins PR,Gameiro MC,Castoldi L,Romagnoli GG,Lopes FC,Pinto AV,Loyola W,Kaneno R

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene reporter-fluorescent cells have emerged as alternative method for drug screening. OBJECTIVE:Achievement of constitutive expression of fluorescent protein GFP by Leishmania braziliensis as alternative method for drug screening. METHODS:L. braziliensis-GFP was generated using Leishmania tarentolae pLEXS...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Bastos MS,Souza LÂ,Onofre TS,Silva A Júnior,Almeida MR,Bressan GC,Fietto JL

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective field study conducted from July 2000 to June 2001, adult Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus mosquitoes were caught from the municipality of Nova Iguaçu, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Virus isolation in Ae. albopictus clone C6/36 cell line and a semi-nested reverse transcription-polymerase chain react...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Lourenco-de-Oliveira R,Honorio NA,Castro MG,Schatzmayr HG,Miagostovich MP,Alves JC,Silva WC,Leite PJ,Nogueira RM

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of the phlebotomine sand fly fauna was carried out in an endemic area of American visceral leishmaniasis (AVL) in the municipality of Porteirinha, in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Captures were performed with CDC light traps in 7 districts, 5 days per month, during 2 consecutive years (January 2000 to D...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Barata RA,Silva JC,Costa RT,Fortes-Dias CL,Silva JC,Paula EV,Prata A,Monteiro EM,Dias ES

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromatin of Trypanosoma congolense was analyzed by electron microscopy. The chromatin is organized as nucleosome filaments but does not form a 30 nm fiber. There are five groups of histones, including a histone H1-like protein, which as a molecular weight within the range of the core histones, and is extremely hy...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Schlimme W,Burri M,Betschart B,Hecker H

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The great difficulties in treating people and animals suffering from cryptosporidiosis have prompted the development of in vitro experimental models. Due to the models of in vitro culture, new extracellular stages of Cryptosporidium have been demonstrated. The development of these extracellular phases depends on the t...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Perez Cordón G,Marin C,Romero D,Rosales C,Sánchez Moreno M,Rosales MJ

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron is essential for all organisms and its availability can control the growth of microorganisms; therefore, we examined the role of iron metabolism in multibacillary (MB) leprosy, focusing on the involvement of hepcidin. Erythrograms, iron metabolism parameters, pro-inflammatory cytokines and urinary hepcidin levels...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Souza VN,Malaspina TS,Campanelli AP,Ghidella C,Ura S,Dalpino D,do Nascimento DC,Latini AC

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Saimiri monkey, an experimental host for human malaria, acquired protection against Plasmodium falciparum blood stages depends on the IgG antibody populations developed. In vivo protective anti-falciparum activity of IgG antibodies is correlated with the in vitro opsonizing activity promoting phagocytosis of pa...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Gysin J

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00