[Complement fixation reaction in the typing of influenza viruses isolated in Rio de Janeiro].

abstract：:Toxocara cati is a common feline parasite transmitted by the ingestion of embryonated eggs, by the transmammary route or by predation of paratenic hosts harbouring third-stage larvae in their bodies. In the present study, the larval distribution of T. cati in tissues and organs of Rattus norvegicus experimentally infe...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Santos SV,Lescano SZ,Castro JM,Chieffi PP

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Brazil, malaria still remains a clinically important febrile syndrome for local populations and travelers, occurring mostly in the Amazon Basin. This review aims to report the main efforts employed to control this disease since the 1940s and the emergence of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax chemoresistanc...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Gama BE,Lacerda MV,Daniel-Ribeiro CT,Ferreira-da-Cruz Mde F

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms that facilitate the adaptation of Trypanosoma cruzi to two distinct hosts, insect and vertebrate, are poorly understood, in part due to the limited ability to perform gene disruption studies by homologous recombination. This report describes a developmentally-defective phenotype that resulted from integ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Zacks MA

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, IgA1 levels in the milk and serum of puerperae were compared and a correlation was established between the levels of this immunoglobulin and the occurrence of parasitism. Eighty-three paired milk and serum samples were obtained from puerperal and IgA1 levels were analyzed. In addition, the presence of i...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Manhani MN,Cruz JM,Ferreira DM,Abdallah VO,Souza MA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of C3H/He mice with the Peruvian strain of Trypanosoma cruzi (Biodeme type I, Z2b), a macrophagotropic strain, determined severe parasitism of macrophages, necrosis of the spleen, and high host mortality. In the present study, pentoxifylline (PTX), an inhibitor of TNF-alpha was investigated on its action upo...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Andrade SG,Magalhães Ldos A,Pessina DH

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tick-bird relationship of 56 specimens of birds (Passeriformes and Columbiformes) collected in the city of Curitiba, State of Paraná, between 1990 and 1995, among which 102 specimens of Ixodes (Multidentatus) auritulus were found and analyzed. New host records were also produced including the first report of I. au...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Arzua M,Barros-Battesti DM

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania braziliensis is the etiological agent of American mucosal leishmaniasis, one of the most severe clinical forms of leishmaniasis. Here, we report the assembly of the L. braziliensis (M2904) genome into 35 continuous chromosomes. Also, the annotation of 8395 genes is provided. The public availability of this ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： González-de la Fuente S,Camacho E,Peiró-Pastor R,Rastrojo A,Carrasco-Ramiro F,Aguado B,Requena JM

更新日期：2018-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In Brazil, carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates are closely related to the São Paulo metallo-β-lactamase (SPM) Brazilian clone. In this study, imipenem-resistant isolates were divided in two sets, 2002/2003 and 2008/2009, analysed by pulsed field gel electrophoresis and tested for the Ambler class B me...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Cavalcanti FL,Almeida AC,Vilela MA,Morais MM,Morais Junior MA

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scientists have increasingly recognised that low methodological and analytical rigour combined with publish-or-perish incentives can make the published scientific literature unreliable. As a response to this, large-scale systematic replications of the literature have emerged as a way to assess the problem empirically....

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Neves K,Carneiro CF,Wasilewska-Sampaio AP,Abreu M,Valério-Gomes B,Tan PB,Amaral OB

更新日期：2020-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the 1940s, French Guiana has implemented vector control to contain or eliminate malaria, yellow fever, and, recently, dengue, chikungunya, and Zika. Over time, strategies have evolved depending on the location, efficacy of the methods, development of insecticide resistance, and advances in vector control techniq...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Epelboin Y,Chaney SC,Guidez A,Habchi-Hanriot N,Talaga S,Wang L,Dusfour I

更新日期：2018-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The current drug options for the treatment of chronic Chagas disease have not been sufficient and high hopes have been placed on the use of genomic data from the human parasite Trypanosoma cruzi to identify new drug targets and develop appropriate treatments for both acute and chronic Chagas disease. However, the lack...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Alves-Ferreira M,Guimarães AC,Capriles PV,Dardenne LE,Degrave WM

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:Acute infection with Trypanosoma cruzi results in intense myocarditis, which progresses to a chronic, asymptomatic indeterminate form. The evolution toward this chronic cardiac form occurs in approximately 30% of all cases of T. cruzi infection. Suppression of delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) has been proposed as a...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Thé TS,Portella RS,Guerreiro ML,Andrade SG

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：: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 restriction fragment length polymorphism of the 195 bp repeated DNA sequence of Trypanosoma cruzi was analyzed among 23 T. cruzi stocks giving a reliable picture of the whole phylogenetic variability of the species. The profiles observed with the enzymes Hinf I and Hae III were linked together and supported the ex...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Bastrenta B,Bosseno MF,Barnabé C,Tibayrenc M,Brenière SF

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subject of this conference reflects the scientific community's interest in seeking to understand the complex causal web whose various social, economic, and biological components interact in the production and reproduction of schistosomiasis and its control in relation to community participation. From the onset, th...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Barbosa FS

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new species of the Culicoides paraensis species group, C. diversus Felippe-Bauer and C. peruvianus Felippe-Bauer, are described and illustrated based on female specimens from Amazonian region of Peru. A systematic key, table with numerical characters of females, and distribution of species of the C. paraensis grou...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Felippe-Bauer ML,Cáceres AG,Silva CS,Valderrama-Bazan W,Gonzales-Perez A

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This retrospective study (April-September 2003) was designed to investigate the roles of the main viruses responsible for cases of acute infantile gastroenteritis in hospitalised children up to two years of age. The viruses were identified in 64.7% (88/136) of the cases and the detection rates of rotavirus A (RVA), no...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Ferreira MS,Cubel Garcia Rde C,Xavier Mda P,Ribeiro RL,Assis RM,Mota Mdo C,Leite JP,Miagostovich MP,de Oliveira SA

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catadiscus pomaceae sp. n. from the intestine of the prosobranch mollusc Pomacea canaliculata (Lamarck, 1801), is described. The host snail was collected from a lenitic biotope belonging to the Riachuelo basin (Corrientes province, Argentina) during 1985-1986. So far the species of the genus Catadiscus Cohn, 1904 have...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Hamann MI

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a technique to separate male and female pupae of sand flies. This has reduced the labour to separate flies after emergence and also allows the isolation of unmated adults for behavioural and physiological studies. ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Brazil BG,Brazil RP

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies against heart vascular structures and striated muscle cells interstitium (EVI antibodies) persist in Chagas' disease patients who had been cured by specific treatment as demonstrated by negative xenodiagnosis, conventional serology (CS) and complement mediated lysis (CoML). On the other hand, EVI antibodies...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Brener Z,Ramirez LE,Krettli AU,Cançado JR

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 listed schistosomiasis among the leading 100 causes of death in Brazil, responsible for 3.6% of the estimated total of deaths globally. Eye and adnexa are very rarely affected by schistosomiasis mansoni, with limited documentation of ocular pathology in this setting. This short ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Fidelis TAA,Brasileiro-Filho G,Santos HH,Vasconcelos-Santos DV,Parreiras PM,Coelho PMZ,Araujo N,Chaud MV,Lambertucci JR

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to correlate the presence of ica genes, biofilm formation and antimicrobial resistance in 107 strains of Staphylococcus epidermidis isolated from blood cultures. The isolates were analysed to determine their methicillin resistance, staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) type, ica genes and bi...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Pinheiro L,Brito CI,Pereira VC,Oliveira Ad,Camargo CH,Cunha Mde L

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper a discussion is made on the pathogenesis of schistosomiasis mansoni in mice, presented from the perspectives of "processes", "mediators", "strategies for study" and "disease". These concepts overlap considerably. Regarding "processes", granulomas, fibrosis and vasculitis are discussed. The role of mediat...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Cheever AW

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally accepted that Plasmodium vivax, the most widely distributed human malaria parasite, causes mild disease and that this species does not sequester in the deep capillaries of internal organs. Recent evidence, however, has demonstrated that there is severe disease, sometimes resulting in death, exclusively...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Costa FT,Lopes SC,Ferrer M,Leite JA,Martin-Jaular L,Bernabeu M,Nogueira PA,Mourão MP,Fernandez-Becerra C,Lacerda MV,del Portillo H

更新日期：2011-08-01 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

authors： Rego AA,Schäffer GV

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic Chagas disease diagnosis relies on laboratory tests due to its clinical characteristics. The aim of this research was to review commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) diagnostic test performance. Performance of commercial ELISA or PCR for the diagnosis of chron...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Brasil PE,Castro R,Castro Ld

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) pristinus Nagaki & Sallum, n. sp. of the Myzorhynchella Section is described based on morphological characters of adult females, males, fourth-instar larvae, pupae and male genitalia. Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) antunesi Galvão & Amaral is characterized to fix its identity and distinguish it fr...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Nagaki SS,Motta Mde A,Sallum MA

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00