Evaluation of spleen cell population and effect of splenectomy on granuloma modulation in BALB/c mice infected with Schistosoma mansoni.

abstract：:Although vaccines are the best means of protection against influenza, neuraminidase inhibitors are currently the main antiviral treatment available to control severe influenza cases. One of the most frequent substitutions in the neuraminidase (NA) protein of influenza A(H3N2) viruses during or soon after oseltamivir a...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Pontoriero A,Avaro M,Benedetti E,Russo M,Czech A,Periolo N,Campos A,Zamora A,Baumeister E

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-four marsupials, 77 rodents and 161 ticks were captured in an Atlantic Forest Reserve in Cotia county, State of São Paulo, where human cases of Lyme disease (LD) simile were reported. Twenty-one borrelia-like spirochete isolates were recovered from the mammals' blood and rodent livers or spleens, and triturated ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Abel IS,Marzagão G,Yoshinari NH,Schumaker TT

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we observed the uptake of membrane-impermeant molecules by cercariae as they penetrate the skin and are transformed into schistosomula. We propose that membrane-impermeant molecules, Lucifer Yellow, Propidium iodide and Hoechst 33258 enter the parasite through both thenephridiopore and the surface membrane and t...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Thornhill J,Kusel J,Oliviera FA,Ribeiro F,Lima SF,Coelho PM,McVeigh P,Mattos AC

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated the diagnostic value of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) performed in parallel to conventional methods at an American tegumentary leishmaniasis (ATL) referral centre for diagnosis. Accuracy parameters for PCR were calculated using 130 patients with confirmed ATL (ATL group), 15 patients e...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Fagundes A,Schubach A,Paula CC,Bogio A,Antonio Lde F,Schiavoni PB,Monteiro Vde S,Madeira Mde F,Quintella LP,Valete-Rosalino CM,Vasconcellos Ede C,Azeredo-Coutinho RB,Pacheco RS,Marzochi MC,Marzochi KB

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) cases has increased over the past 10 years in Brazil, especially in the North and Northeast regions of the country. The aim of this study was to evaluate the urbanisation of VL vectors in Barcarena, Pará, an area in northern Brazil where VL is endemic. Sandflies were captured ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Oliveira DM,Saraiva EM,Ishikawa EA,Sousa AA,Silva EO,Silva IM

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD8+ T cells have been implicated as critical effector cells in protection against the pre-erythrocytic stage of malaria in mice and humans following irradiated sporozoite immunization. Immunization experiments in animal models by several investigators have suggested different strategies for vaccination against malari...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Oliveira-Ferreira J,Daniel-Ribeiro C

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A vaccination campaign against pandemic influenza A (H1N1)pdm09 was held in Brazil in March 2010, using two types of monovalent split virus vaccines: an AS03-adjuvanted vaccine and a non-adjuvanted vaccine. We compared the reactogenicity of the vaccines in health professionals from a Clinical Research Institute in Rio...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Cerbino-Neto J,Santos AT,Gouvea MI,Pedro RS,Ramos GV,Guaraldo L,Werneck GL

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visceral leishmaniasis, or kala-azar, is recognised as a serious emerging public health problem in India. In this study, environmental parameters, such as land surface temperature (LST) and renormalised difference vegetation indices (RDVI), were used to delineate the association between environmental variables and Phl...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Kesari S,Bhunia GS,Chatterjee N,Kumar V,Mandal R,Das P

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma cruzi acute infections often go unperceived, but one third of chronically infected individuals die of Chagas disease, showing diverse manifestations affecting the heart, intestines, and nervous systems. A common denominator of pathology in Chagas disease is the minimal rejection unit, whereby parasite-free...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Teixeira AR,Nascimento RJ,Sturm NR

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：:We evaluated the potential of Mesocyclops annulatus as a control agent of Aedes aegypti in La Plata city (Argentina). Mosquito larval survivorship due to predation by these copepods was estimated at weekly intervals during the oviposition period of A. aegypti. Mean weekly A. aegypti larval survivorship in cylindrical ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Marti GA,Micieli MV,Scorsetti AC,Liljesthröm G

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular nature of the infiltrate in cutaneous lesion of rhesus monkeys experimentally infected with Leishmania (L.) amazonensis was characterized by immunohistochemistry. Skin biopsies from infected animals with active or healing lesions were compared to non-infected controls (three of each type) to quantitate in...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Amaral V,Pirmez C,Gonçalves A,Ferreira V,Grimaldi G Jr

更新日期：2000-03-01 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：:The Brazilian variant of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) subtype B, (serotype B"-GWGR), has a tryptophan replacing the proline in position 328 the HIV-1 envelope. A longer median time period from infection to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) for serotype B (B"-GWGR) infected subjects compared to t...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Casseb J,Montanheiro P,Komninakis S,Brito A,Duarte AJ

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study sought the characterization of rotaviruses in a trial with a tetravalent rhesus-human rotavirus vaccine in Belém, Brazil in children who received three doses of vaccine or placebo in the 1st, 3rd and 5th months of life. Rotavirus electropherotypes, subgroups, G serotypes, G, [P] and [P], G genotypes were de...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Mascarenhas JD,Linhares AC,Gabbay YB,Leite JP

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to evaluate the relationship between toxocariasis frequency and demographic, environmental, sanitary variables, eosinophylia, and other intestinal parasites in a rural population of Argentina. Serological examination of 100 individuals was carried out by using ELISA technique for the de...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Chiodo P,Basualdo J,Ciarmela L,Pezzani B,Apezteguía M,Minvielle M

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the isolation of a Leishmania chagasi strain from a bat (Carollia perspicillata), and its identification using biological methods and molecular characterization. The parasites were isolated in an artificial culture medium from a blood sample extracted from a bat heart. The isolate was then inocul...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： De Lima H,Rodríguez N,Barrios MA,Avila A,Cañizales I,Gutiérrez S

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular characterization of one stable strain of Trypanosoma cruzi, the 21 SF, representative of the pattern of strains isolated from the endemic area of São Felipe, State of Bahia, Brazil, maintained for 15 years in laboratory by serial passages in mice and classified as biodeme Type II and zymodeme 2 has been inve...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Campos RF,Gonçalves MS,dos Reis EA,dos Reis MG,Andrade SG

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helmintex is a sensitive method used for detecting Schistosoma mansoni eggs. Here, we describe the observed frequency of six proposed criteria associated with the identification of S. mansoni eggs prepared with the Helmintex method and stained with ninhydrin. The efficacy of these criteria in classifying S. mansoni eg...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： de Souza RP,Favero V,Pascoal VF,Lindholz C,Bittencourt HR,Graeff-Teixeira C

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) have been identified as the etiological agent in various infections and are currently the microorganisms most frequently isolated in nosocomial infections. However, little is known about the virulence factors produced by CNS that contribute to the pathogenesis of infections cause...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Cunha Mde L,Rugolo LM,Lopes CA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leprosy is an ancient disease that remains endemic and continues to be a major public health problem in some tropical countries, where it has been internationally recognized as being linked to the underdevelopment conditions. The natural course of the disease covers a wide variety of clinical conditions with systemic ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Foss NT,Motta AC

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental infections by Trypanosoma (Megatrypanum) minasense were performed in primates - Saimiri sciureus and Callithrix penicillata - with the objective of searching for morphological variations of the blood trypomastigotes with respect to hosts and time of infection. We carried out morphological and morphometric...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Ziccardi M,Lourenco-de-Oliveira R

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to analyse the spatial distribution of human (2007-2013) and canine (2013) visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in the city of Araçuaí, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and identify the socio-environmental factors related to their occurrence. The spatial distribution of human and canine cases was analysed by kernel densi...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Ursine RL,Dias JV,Morais HA,Pires HH

更新日期：2016-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biomphalaria glabrata snails are widely distributed in schistosomiasis endemic areas like America and Caribe, displaying high susceptibility to infection by Schistosoma mansoni. After the availability of B. glabrata genome and transcriptome data, studies focusing on genetic markers and small non-coding RNAs ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Queiroz FR,Portilho LG,Jeremias WJ,Babá ÉH,do Amaral LR,Silva LM,Coelho PMZ,Caldeira RL,Gomes MS

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A preliminary study of the pharmacokinetic parameters of t-Butylaminoethanethiol (TBAESH) was performed after administration of a single dose (35 mg/kg) either orally or intravenously. Plasma or blood samples were treated with dithiothreitol, perchloric acid and, after filtration, submitted to further purification wit...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Andrade MH,Freire AC,Nelson DL

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the development of a SYBR Green I based real time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) protocol for detection on the ABI Prism 7000 instrument. Primers targeting the gene encoding the SSU rRNA were designed to amplify with high specificity DNA from Schistosoma mansoni, in a real time quantitative PCR ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Gomes AL,Melo FL,Werkhauser RP,Abath FG

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new species of the genus Cotylophoron (Trematoda--Paramphistomidae) --Cotylophoron travassosi sp. n.--is described. The measurements of the worm and its structures are compared with the valid known species. ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Costa HM,Guimaráes MP

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the first time, a jar of embalming rejects was studied in search for helminth parasite eggs. This kind of jar was used to put discarded material by Egyptian embalmers during mummification process. Ascaris lumbricoides and Taenia saginata eggs were found in the linen and strip fragment contents of the jar, dated of...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Harter S,Le Bailly M,Janot F,Bouchet F

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The community structure of insects, especially mosquito larvae, in water held in the fungus Aquascypha hydrophora (Berk.) Reid (Stereaceae) is reported. The study was done in the Adolpho Ducke Forest Reserve, 26 km east of Manaus, AM, Brazil, from September 1998 through November 1999. The most abundant entomofauna wer...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Ferreira RL,Oliveira AF,Pereira ES,Hamada N

更新日期：2001-11-01 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