EVI antibodies in patients with Chagas' disease: relationship with anti-Trypanosoma cruzi immunoglobulins and effects of specific treatment.

abstract：:The main purpose of the present study was to examine if there is difference in terms of incidence rates of congenital toxoplasmosis among populations assisted in public and private hospitals from Uberlândia, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. A total of 805 serum samples from cord blood were collected, being 500 from publ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Segundo GR,Silva DA,Mineo JR,Ferreira MS

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a slide culture technique to detect tubercle bacilli surviving in sputum smears (n=46) after conventional heat fixation and Ziehl-Neelsen staining. In all heat-fixed sputum smears, tubercle bacilli survived after time 0 (n=22), 24 h (n=7), 48 h (n=7), 72 h (n=4), and seven days (n=6). None of the stained sputu...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Cardoso CL,Giacomelli LR,Helbel C,Sant'Ana JJ,Martins FM,Barreto AM

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory failure (RF) is the main cause of hospital admission in HIV/AIDS patients. This study assessed comorbidities and laboratory parameters in HIV/AIDS inpatients with RF (N = 58) in relation to those without RF (N = 36). Tuberculosis showed a huge relative risk and platelet counts were slightly higher in HIV/A...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Gama WM,Oliveira LB,Chaves YO,Ribeiro F,Almeida TVR,Baptista BJA,Santana MF,Ferreira LC,Lacerda MVG,Nogueira PA

更新日期：2020-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the current paper was to study in the state of Sergipe the population distribution and interactions between two species of Biomphalaria, the snail vectors of Schistosoma mansoni in the northeastern Brazil. Data collected in 1969 showed that B. straminea, with only one exception, was limited to the semi-dry ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Figueiredo CC

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A virus antigenic characterization methodology using an indirect method of antibody detection ELISA with virus-infected cultured cells as antigen and a micro virus neutralisation test using EIA (NT-EIA) as an aid to reading were used for antigenic characterization of Jatobal (BeAn 423380). Jatobal virus was characteri...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Figueiredo LT,Da Rosa AP

更新日期：1988-04-01 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

authors： Ready P

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three Yersinia pestis strains isolated from humans and one laboratory strain (EV76) were grown in rich media at 28 degrees C and 37 degrees C and their outer membrane protein composition compared by sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). Several proteins with molecular weights ranging f...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Abath FG,de Almeida AM,Ferreira LC

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on natural infection by Leishmania spp of sandflies collected in endemic and nonendemic areas can provide important information on the distribution and intensity of the transmission of these parasites. This study sought to investigate the natural infection by Leishmaniain wild female sandflies. The specimens w...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Oliveira EF,Casaril AE,Mateus NL,Murat PG,Fernandes WS,Oshiro ET,Oliveira AG,Galati EA

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：:Trypanosomes are parasitic protozoa in which gene expression is primarily controlled through the regulation of mRNA stability and translation. This post-transcriptional control is mediated by various families of RNA-binding proteins, including those with zinc finger CCCH motifs. CCCH zinc finger proteins have been sho...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Mörking PA,Rampazzo Rde C,Walrad P,Probst CM,Soares MJ,Gradia DF,Pavoni DP,Krieger MA,Matthews K,Goldenberg S,Fragoso SP,Dallagiovanna B

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-bilayer phospholipid arrangements are three-dimensional structures that form when anionic phospholipids with an intermediate structure of the tubular hexagonal phase II are present in a bilayer of lipids. Antibodies that recognise these arrangements have been described in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome an...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Baeza I,Wong-Baeza C,Valerdi E,Serafin-Lopez J,Ibáñez M,Estrada-Parra S,Wong C,Estrada-Garcia I

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fibrosis in the peripheral nerve is the end stage of leprous neuropathy and the cause of the resulting permanent neural function impairments. Preventive measures to avoid this irreversible pathological state are a relief strategy for leprosy sufferers. OBJECTIVES:The present study describes the frequency of...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Antunes SLG,Jardim MR,Vital RT,Pascarelli BMO,Nery JADC,Amadeu TP,Sales AM,da Costa EAF,Sarno EN

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes associated with wound healing have been shown to be risk factors for cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) which is caused by Leishmania braziliensis. In this study, we examined whether the genes previously associated with CL influenced the clinical outcome. Patients were genotyped and retrospectively classified as respo...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： da Hora AS,de Almeida LF,do Lago TS,Machado PR,Castellucci LC

更新日期：2020-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to investigate the importance of the serum factors present in the plasma of resistant Biomphalaria tenagophila snails, when transferred to susceptible conspecific. Susceptible B. tenagophila (CF) received plasma from resistant B. tenagophila (Taim), and both were later infected with Schistosoma mansoni...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Coelho JR,Bezerra FS

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews current concepts of the biology of Endotrypanum spp. Data summarized here on parasite classification and taxonomic divergence found among these haemoflagellates come from our studies of molecular characterization of Endotrypanum stocks (representing an heterogenous population of reference strains ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Franco AM,Grimaldi G Jr

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1970 to 1982, 884 cases of human leptospirosis were serologically diagnosed at the Leptospirosis Laboratory, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz - FIOCRUZ, by means of the microscopic agglutination test. Of these patients, 775 were hospitalized in the city of Rio de Janeiro, and 109 were reported by other Brazilian cities. Ict...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Andrade J,Brandão AP

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequences of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) mitochondrial gene from adults of 22 Culex (Culex) species from Argentina and Brazil were employed to assess species identification and to test the usefulness of COI for barcoding using the best close match (BCM) algorithm. A pairwise Kimura two-parameter distance ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Laurito M,Oliveira TM,Almirón WR,Sallum MA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, the susceptibility to benznidazole of two parental Trypanosoma cruzi strains, Colombian and Berenice-78, was compared to isolates obtained from dogs infected with these strains for several years. In order to evaluate the susceptibility to benznidazole two groups of mice were infected with one of five dis...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Veloso VM,Carneiro CM,Toledo MJ,Lana M,Chiari E,Tafuri WL,Bahia MT

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discovered in 1909, Chagas disease was progressively shown to be widespread throughout Latin America, affecting millions of rural people with a high impact on morbidity and mortality. With no vaccine or specific treatment available for large-scale public health interventions, the main control strategy relies on preven...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Dias JC,Silveira AC,Schofield CJ

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important point in paleoparasitology is the correct diagnosis of the origin of coprolites found in archaeological sites. The identification of human and animal coprolites, through the study of the shape, size, characteristics after rehydration, alimentary contents, and the presence of parasites, has proved to be ac...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Ferreira LF,Araújo A,Confalonieri U,Chame M

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholinesterase and acid phosphatase (AP), but not alkaline phosphatase activities, were detected in cytosolic and membrane-bound fractions of ivermectin resistant and susceptible Haemonchus contortus infective-stage larvae. Some differences in acetylcholinesterase activity of cytosolic fractions and in the AP activity...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Giménez-Pardo C,Martínez-Grueiro MM,Gómez-Barrio A,Rodríguez-Caabeiro F

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increasing amount of research has been conducted on immunoglobulin Y (IgY) because the use of IgY offers several advantages with respect to diagnostic testing, including its easy accessibility, low cost and translatability to large-scale production, in addition to the fact that it can be ethically produced. In a pr...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Bentes GA,Lanzarini NM,Lima LR,Manso PP,da Silva Ados S,Mouta Junior Sda S,Guimarães JR,de Moraes MT,Pelajo-Machado M,Pinto MA

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study, the Schistosoma mansoni Rho1 protein was able to complement Rho1 null mutant Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells at restrictive temperatures and under osmotic stress (low calcium concentration) better than the human homologue (RhoA). It is known that under osmotic stress, the S. cerevisiae Rho1 trigger...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Aguiar PH,Santos DN,Lobo FP,Santos TM,Macedo AM,Pena SD,Machado CR,Franco GR

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four superoxide dismutase (SOD) activities (SOD I, II, III, and IV) have been characterized in the epimastigote form of Trypanosoma cruzi. The total extract was subjected to two successive ammonium sulphate additions between 35 and 85%, and the resulting fraction was purified using two continuous chromatography proces...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Mateo H,Marín C,Pérez-Cordón G,Sánchez-Moreno M

更新日期：2008-05-01 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

authors： Paraense WL,Corrêa LR

更新日期：1988-10-01 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：:In the Brazilian Amazon, American tegumentary leishmaniasis (ATL) is endemic and presents a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations due, in part, to the circulation of at least seven Leishmania species. Few reports of Leishmania (Viannia) naiffi infection suggest that its occurrence is uncommon and the reported cases...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Fagundes-Silva GA,Romero GA,Cupolillo E,Yamashita EP,Gomes-Silva A,Guerra JA,Da-Cruz AM

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Brazil, until 2004, the immunization policy against diphtheria involved childhood vaccination with no official routine booster dose administered after 15 years of age. This study assessed functional antibody levels against diphtheria among blood donors. A total of 140 blood samples were collected, and diphtheria an...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Pimenta FP,Damasco PV,Cerbino Neto J,Lopes GS,Hirata R Jr,Milagres LG,Mattos-Guaraldi AL

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：:India was affected by a major outbreak of chikungunya fever caused by Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) during 2006-2007. Kerala was the worst affected state during 2007 with a contribution of 55.8% suspected cases in the country. However, except for clinically reported case records, no systematic information is available on ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Kumar NP,Suresh A,Vanamail P,Sabesan S,Krishnamoorthy KG,Mathew J,Jose VT,Jambulingam P

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00