Application of WHO International Biological Reference Standards to evaluate commercial serological tests for chronic Chagas disease.

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：BACKGROUND:Enterocytozoon bieneusi are the most common microsporidia associated with different clinical manifestations such as diarrhoea, respiratory tract inflammation and acalculous cholecystitis, especially in immunocompromised patients. Infection usually occurs by ingestion of food and water contaminated with spore...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Yamashiro S,Fiuza VRDS,Teixeira ÂTLS,Branco N,Levy CE,Castro ICVS,Franco RMB

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biochemical and serological characteristics, virulence properties, and genetic relatedness of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains isolated in S o Paulo, from April 1989 through March 1990, were determined. This is also the first report on clinic findings of human STEC infections in Brazil. The on...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Guth BE,Ramos SR,Cerqueira AM,Andrade JR,Gomes TA

更新日期：2002-12-01 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

authors： Veloso VM,Guedes PM,Andrade IM,Caldas IS,Martins HR,Carneiro CM,Machado-Coelho GL,de Lana M,Galvão LM,Bahia MT,Chiari E

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) infection of Hep-2 cells proceeds through bacterial attachment to cell surface and internalization of adhered bacteria. EPEC attachment is a prerequisite for cell infection and is mediated by adhesins that recognize carbohydrate-containing receptors on cell membrane. Such endocytosis-in...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Andrade JR,Da Silva CC

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During studies of Simuliidae at a suspected new focus of human onchocerciasis in central Brazil a new species of Simulium was found. Full descriptions of the adults and pupae of this species, S. cuasiexiguum, are described here, its affinities to closely related species in the subgenus Notolepria are discussed and its...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Shelley AJ,Luna Dias AP,Maia-Herzog M,Lowry CA,Garritano PR,Penn M,Camargo M

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-resistant gram-negative rods are important pathogens in intensive care units (ICU), cause high rates of mortality, and need infection control measures to avoid spread to another patients. This study was undertaken prospectively with all of the patients hospitalized at ICU, Anesthesiology of the Hospital São Paul...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Martins ST,Moreira M,Furtado GH,Marino CG,Machado FR,Wey SB,Medeiros EA

更新日期：2004-05-01 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

authors： Senger MR,Evangelista TCS,Dantas RF,Santana MVDS,Gonçalves LCS,de Souza Neto LR,Ferreira SB,Silva-Junior FP

更新日期：2020-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:This article tries to demonstrate by new pathological findings (with the use of immunohistochemical technique and confocal laser microscopy) that chronic chagasic cardiomyopathy is a result of multiple factors involving myocarditis, immunodepression, severe fibrosis and microvessels dilatation and that all of these al...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： de Lourdes Higuchi M

更新日期：1999-01-01 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 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：:Small molecular weight compounds from Mandevilla velutina and from Eclipta prostata were found to be active against snakebite. ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Mors WB

更新日期：1991-01-01 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

abstract：:Patients with acute schistosomiasis were studied before and after oxamniquine treatment. They had been exposed to cercariae 5 to 9 weeks before, and presented compatible clinical manifestations, eosinophilia, and high levels of total IgE. Interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) and interleukin-4 were measured by ELISA in whole b...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： de Souza JR,Morais CN,Aroucha ML,Miranda PJ,Barbosa CS,Domingues AL,Carvalho Júnior LB,Abath FG,Montenegro SM

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In visceral leishmaniasis, phlebotomine vectors are targets for control measures. Understanding the ecosystem of the vectors is a prerequisite for creating these control measures. This study endeavours to delineate the suitable locations of Phlebotomus argentipes with relation to environmental characteristics between ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Kesari S,Bhunia GS,Kumar V,Jeyaram A,Ranjan A,Das P

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospirosis in humans usually involves hypokalaemia and hypomagnesaemia and the putative mechanism underlying such ionic imbalances may be related to nitric oxide (NO) production. We previously demonstrated the correlation between serum levels of NO and the severity of renal disease in patients with severe leptospir...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Santos CS,Azevedo EC,Soares LM,Carvalho MO,dos Santos AC,das Chagas AD Jr,da Silva CL,Chagas UM,dos Reis MG,Athanazio DA

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii has a very wide intermediate host range and is thought to be able to infect all warm blooded animals. The parasite causes a spectrum of different diseases and clinical symptoms within the intermediate hosts and following infection most animals develop adaptive humoral and cell-mediated immune respons...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Innes EA,Bartley PM,Maley S,Katzer F,Buxton D

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, the development of new tools to gather field information about vector ecological parameters has increased. This report evaluated the BG-Sentinel Trap (BGS-Trap), a promising new attempt to improve collection of the dengue vector, Aedes aegypti. The efficacy of the BGS-Trap was compared with the CDC ba...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Maciel-de-Freitas R,Eiras AE,Lourenço-de-Oliveira R

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many helminth infected hosts the number of eosinophils increases dramatically, often without any concurrent increases in the number of other leukocytes, so that eosinophils become the dominant cell type. Many experimental investigations have shown that the eosinophilia is induced by interleukin-5 (IL-5) but its fun...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Ovington KS,Behm CA

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sylvatic Triatoma infestans DM (dark morph) population detected in the Bolivian Chaco was characterized and compared with various domestic ones. The degree of differentiation of DM was clearly within the T. infestans intra-specific level. Nevertheless marked chromatic and morphometric differences as well as differen...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Noireau F,Bastrenta B,Catalá S,Dujardin JP,Panzera F,Torres M,Perez R,Galvão C,Jurberg J

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:There has been good progress in inferring the evolutionary relationships within trypanosomes from DNA data as until relatively recently, many relationships have remained rather speculative. Ongoing molecular studies have provided data that have adequately shown Trypanosoma to be monophyletic and, rather surprisingly, ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Stothard J

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After the acute hyperergic phase of schistosomal infection, the chronic phase of the disease corresponds to the establishment of a relative equilibrium between the host and the parasite. This involves: (1) A shift from the predominance of the TH2 response observed in the acute phase, to the predominance of the TH1 res...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Borojevic R

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1985 and 2000, epidemiological surveys of the American tegumentary leishmaniasis (ATL) were carried out in several rural and urban communities in Espírito Santo, Brazil. A total of 100 stocks of Leishmania (comprising isolates from both human and canine hosts with ATL) were identified by two methods of molecul...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Falqueto A,Sessa PA,Ferreira AL,Vieira VP,Santos CB,Varejão JB,Cupolillo E,Porrozzi R,Carvalho-Paes LE,Grimaldi Júnior G

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discs of polyvinyl alcohol cross-linked with glutaraldehyde were synthesized under acid catalysis (H2SO4). Then, the antigen F1 purified from Yersinia pestis was covalently linked to this modified polymer. Afterwards, an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was established for the diagnosis of plague in rabbit an...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Araujo AM,Petribú AT,Sales Barbosa GH,Diniz JR,de Almeida AM,Mendes Azevedo W,Malagueño E,Carvalho Júnior LB

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As in many areas of Brazil, the AIDS epidemic in Curitiba is relatively stable, but surveillance is important to support public policy. The molecular characteristics of HIV may be instrumental for monitoring epidemic trends. We evaluated plasma HIV-1 RNA (n = 37) from 38 cases presenting with positive serology, who we...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Ferreira JL,Thomaz M,Rodrigues R,Harrad D,Oliveira CM,Oliveira CA,Batista JP,Ito TS,Brigido LF

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preparations of simian rotavirus SA11 maintained in different laboratories were compared with each other by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of genomic RNA. Differences in the migration of genome segments 4, 5 and 7 allowed the classification of eight virus preparations into four electrophoretic types. ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Pereira HG,Gouvea VS,Fialho AM

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The merozoite surface protein-1 (MSP-1) locus of Plasmodium falciparum codes for a major asexual blood-stage antigen currently proposed as a major malaria vaccine candidate. The protein, however, shows extensive polymorphism, which may compromise its use in sub-unit vaccines. Here we compare the patterns of allelic di...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Ferreira MU,Kaneko O,Kimura M,Liu Q,Kawamoto F,Tanabe K

更新日期：1998-09-01 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

authors： Lessa A,de Souza SM

更新日期：2006-12-05 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