Abstract:
:Dissection of Lutzomyia longipalpis, captured in the São Luis focus of visceral Leishmaniasis revealed a 1.8% promastigote infection rate.
journal_name
Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruzjournal_title
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruzauthors
Ryan L,Brazil RPdoi
10.1590/s0074-02761984000300016subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1984-07-01 00:00:00pages
383-4issue
3eissn
0074-0276issn
1678-8060pii
S0074-02761984000300016journal_volume
79pub_type
杂志文章abstract::An increased plasma concentration of von Willebrand factor (vWF) is detected in individuals with many infectious diseases and is accepted as a marker of endothelium activation and prothrombotic condition. To determine whether ExoU, a Pseudomonas aeruginosa cytotoxin with proinflammatory activity, enhances the release ...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762012000600004
更新日期:2012-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a highly contagious infection that may break the healthcare system of several countries. Here, we aimed at presenting a critical view of ongoing drug repurposing efforts for COVID-19 as well as discussing ...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/0074-02760200254
更新日期:2020-10-02 00:00:00
abstract::Fifty specimens of five strains (10 per strain) of Helisoma duryi from Lima (Peru), St. Croix (Virgin Islands), Formosa (Brazil), Cartago (Costa Rica) and St. Vincent (Lesser Antilles), reared in isolation for about 150 days, laid 103 eggs. The numbers of eggs laid by the 10 specimens of each strain were respectively ...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02761988000400002
更新日期:1988-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Zika virus (ZIKV) was recognised as a zoonotic pathogen in Africa and southeastern Asia. Human infections were infrequently reported until 2007, when the first known epidemic occurred in Micronesia. After 2013, the Asian lineage of ZIKV spread along the Pacific Islands and Americas, causing severe outbreaks ...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/0074-02760170385
更新日期:2018-05-10 00:00:00
abstract::The alpha-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase (alpha-GPDH) activity in flight muscles of Panstrongylus megistus and Triatoma sordida, vectors of Chagas disease in Brazil, was studied. Both species showed higher enzymatic activities in fliers than in non-fliers insects. T. sordida exhibited a higher proportion of flier inse...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762000000500016
更新日期:2000-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::The evolutionary relationships of sand flies and Leishmania are discussed in this report, which draws distinctions between co-association, co-evolution and co-speciation (or co-cladogenesis). Examples focus on Phlebotomus vectors of Le. infantum and Le. major in the Mediterranean subregion. ...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762000000400024
更新日期:2000-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Some species of Amphibia and Reptilia are listed as new hosts of spargana, from material deposited in the Helminthological Collection of Oswaldo Cruz Institute. It is discussed the difficulties in identifying the larvae (Sparganum) and also the identification of adults of Luheella species from South America. The histo...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02761992000500040
更新日期:1992-01-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762007005000071
更新日期:2007-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::The family Nematotaeniidae, tapeworms commonly found in the small intestines of amphibians and reptiles, includes 27 recognised species distributed among four genera: Bitegmen Jones, Cylindrotaenia Jewell, Distoichometra Dickey and Nematotaenia Lühe. The taxonomy of these cestodes is poorly defined, due in part to the...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762011000600005
更新日期:2011-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Chagas heart disease (CHD) results from infection with the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi and is the leading cause of infectious myocarditis worldwide. It poses a substantial public health burden due to high morbidity and mortality. CHD is also the most serious and frequent manifestation of chronic Chagas diseas...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762009000900021
更新日期:2009-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::The sample consists of 226 skulls from the Atacameño cemetery of Coyo Oriente (639-910 AD), associated with the Tiwanaku period. The authors analyzed signs of acute trauma typically associated with violence, and the results were 12% of men and 9.9% of women displaying any type of lesion related to violence. In males, ...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762006001000020
更新日期:2006-12-05 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762006000400009
更新日期:2006-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Triatoma jatai sp. nov. is the first new species of triatomine to be described in the state of Tocantins, in the northern region of Brazil. It was caught on rock outcrops in the wild environment and, more recently, invading homes. While T. jatai sp. nov. is morphologically similar to Triatoma costalimai, it is disting...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/S0074-0276108042013006
更新日期:2013-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The population biology of three populations of Panstrongylus megistus was compared to determine possible influence on the behaviour and epidemiological importance of this species. The results demonstrated differences in terms of egg eclosion time, nymphal mortality and development rates, and feeding and defaecation ra...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762001000600005
更新日期:2001-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::The goals of the present study were to evaluate the kinetics of blood parasitism by examination of fresh blood, blood culture (BC) and PCR assays and their correlation with heart parasitism during two years of infection in Beagle dogs inoculated with the Be-78, Y and ABC Trypanosoma cruzi strains. Our results showed t...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762008000600003
更新日期:2008-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Tissue parasitism, inflammatory process (histologic methods) and sympathetic denervation (glyoxylic acid-induced histofluorescence for demonstration of catecholamines) were studied in the heart (atrium and ventricle) and the submandibular gland of rats infected with the Y strain of Trypanosoma cruzi. In the heart para...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02761989000400013
更新日期:1989-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::A study on tick-borne rickettsiosis was developed in the county of Santa Cruz do Escalvado, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, where a clinical case of the disease, confirmed by necropsy, had been reported. Of the 1,254 ticks collected, 1,061 belonged to the Amblyomma genus, 57 to the Rhipicephalus sanguineus species, 81 ...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02761997000400005
更新日期:1997-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::The transference of the genetic markers and the presence of DNA plasmidial in 240 cultures of Escherichia coli was investigated. The strains were originated from Waste Treatment Plant (inffluent and effluents) located in Ilha do Governador, Rio de Janeiro. By conjugation analysis, E. coli K 12 allowed the isolation of...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02761988000100004
更新日期:1988-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::In the present paper, we developed a primary culture of Rhodnius prolixus salivary gland and main salivary canal cells. Cells remained viable in culture for 30 days. Three types of cells were indentified in the salivary gland cultures, with binuclear cells being the most abundant. The supernatants of salivary cultures...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762010000200004
更新日期:2010-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The objective of this study was to evaluate the feeding behavior of Triatoma vitticeps through the identification of its food sources and the characterization of the blood ingestion process. In addition, we aimed to verify if the saliva of this vector interferes with the perception of the host during the feedings by c...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762011000100003
更新日期:2011-02-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762004000900004
更新日期:2004-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::During an epidemiological survey of acute respiratory infection in Rio de Janeiro, among 208 adenovirus isolates, we found two strains that we were not able, by a standard neutralization procedure, to distinguish between type 3 or 7. However, DNA restriction pattern for the two strains with different enzymes were anal...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02761998000200019
更新日期:1998-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Twenty six coprolites from an archaeological site in the province of Iquique, northern Chile, were examined for parasites. Coprolites were found in two excavation units, I and II (Tiliviche site), dated respectively at 5,900 B.C. to 4,110 B.C. and 4,110 B.C. to 1,950 B.C., and identified as of human origin. Only at th...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02761984000200004
更新日期:1984-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::We describe a simple method for detection of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum infection in anophelines using a triplex TaqMan real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay (18S rRNA). We tested the assay on Anopheles darlingi and Anopheles stephensi colony mosquitoes fed with Plasmodium-infected blood meal...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/0074-02760150031
更新日期:2015-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::This study was undertaken to investigate the prevalence of Mansonella ozzardi infection and to estimate the parasitic infection rate (PIR) in simuliid black flies in the municipality of Pauini, Amazonas, Brazil. We used thick blood films to examine 921 individuals in 35 riverine communities along the Pauini and Purus ...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762009000100012
更新日期:2009-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::There is a paucity of studies on the cell biology of Sporothrix luriei, the less common of the pathogenic Sporothrix species worldwide. The production of DHN-melanin, eumelanin, and pyomelanin were evaluated on the mycelial and yeast forms of the S. luriei ATCC 18616 strain. The mycelial form of this species produced ...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/0074-02760170339
更新日期:2018-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) plays a major role in liver pathology. Similar to other members of the herpesvirus family, EBV establishes a persistent infection in more than 90% of adults. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of EBV and chronic hepatitis C co-infection (HCV) on biochemical and immunological resp...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/0074-0276140049
更新日期:2014-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::In this article, Médicos Sin Fronteras (MSF) Spain faces the challenge of selecting, piecing together, and conveying in the clearest possible way, the main lessons learnt over the course of the last seven years in the world of medical care for Chagas disease. More than two thousand children under the age of 14 have be...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762007005000081
更新日期:2007-10-30 00:00:00
abstract::A case-control study was conducted to determine the presence ofMycobacterium lepraeDNA in nasal secretions of leprosy cases and nonleprosy individuals in Fortaleza, Brazil. It included 185 cases identified by physicians at the Dona Libânia National Reference Centre for Sanitary Dermatology (CDERM). A control group (Co...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/0074-02760150178
更新日期:2015-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Granuloma size is the variable most frequently used to evaluate the immunopathogenesis of schistosome infections. However, hepatic fibrosis is at the least an equally relevant variable. Hepatic fibrosis and the size of circumoval granulomas are frequently dissociated in experimental murine Schistosoma mansoni and S. j...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1590/s0074-02761997000500024
更新日期:1997-09-01 00:00:00