Widespread nasal carriage of Mycobacterium lepraeamong a healthy population in a hyperendemic region of northeastern Brazil.

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

authors： Rassi A Jr,Rassi A,Marin-Neto JA

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the genotypes of Giardia lamblia from human and animal feces and their epidemiological and clinical characteristics in Argentina, South America. Seventy isolates, 60 from humans (adults and children), eight from dogs and two from cows were processed by polymerase chain reac...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Minvielle MC,Molina NB,Polverino D,Basualdo JA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphometrics of Brazilian strains (BH, SJ and CMO) of Schistosoma mansoni cercariae were obtained with a computerized image analyzer (IMAGE PRO PLUS, MEDIA CYBERNETICS), considering the following characters: body area, tail, furcae, oral and ventral suckers and distance between them. For statistical analysis, the var...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Machado-Silva JR,da Silva CH,Pereira MJ,de Oliveira RM,Pinto RM,Gomes DC

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Details are given of the prevalence rates of onchocerciasis from the most recent surveys (1989) conducted in northern Ecuador. The disease has intensified and dispersed considerably due to migration of infected individuals and the presence of a highly efficient vector. Comparison of these data with those from two prev...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Guderian RH,Shelley AJ

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative study was undertaken on the immunogenic properties of 63kDa glycoproteins obtained from five different strains/species of Leishmania and assessed in C57BL/10 mice. The humoral immune response was assessed by ELISA against the five different antigens of the immunized animals. The cellular immune response ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Dabés Guimarães TM,de Toledo VD,da Costa CA,da Costa RT,Genaro O,Williams P,Mayrink W

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed at identifying the best ovitrap installation sites for gravid Aedes aegypti in Mirassol, state of São Paulo, Brazil. Ovitraps were installed in ten houses per block over ten blocks. Four ovitraps were placed per residence, one in the bedroom, one in the living room, and two outdoors with one in a shel...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Dibo MR,Chiaravalloti-Neto F,Battigaglia M,Mondini A,Favaro EA,Barbosa AA,Glasser CM

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Facilitated and improved by advances in molecular biology, techniques for the immunodiagnosis of schistosomiasis, including assays based on the detection of antigens circulating in the serum and/or excreted in the urine, have now reached the stage of multi-centre trials. There is a need to complement parasitological t...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Bergquist NR

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunogenicity of anti-malaria synthetic vaccine SPf66 was tested in a region of the Colombian middle Atrato river. The specific serum antibodies against SPf66 were quantified in vaccinees and placebo injected controls for a two-years period post-immunization. The frequency of individuals showing seroconversion of...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Lopera TM,Restrepo M,Blair S,García HI

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to examine the parasite fauna present in rodent coprolites collected from Cueva Huenul 1 (CH1), northern Neuquén (Patagonia, Argentina), an archaeological site that provides stratified sequences of archaeological and palaeontological remains dating from the Late Pleistocene/Early Holoc...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Beltrame MO,Sardella NH,Fugassa MH,Barberena R

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct smear examination using Ziehl-Neelsen staining for pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) diagnosis is inexpensive and easy to use, but has the major limitation of low sensitivity. Rapid molecular methods are becoming more widely available in centralized laboratories, but they depend on timely reporting of results and st...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Michelon CT,Rosso F,Schmid KB,Sperhacke RD,Oliveira MM,Kritski AL,Rezende L Jr,Costa ER,Ribeiro AW,Verza M,Cafrune PI,Silva MS,Kuhleis D,Zaha A,Rossetti ML

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study had the objective of to analyze the demographic and bacteriologic data of 32 hospitalized newborns in an neonatal intensive care unit of a public maternity hospital in Rio de Janeiro city, Brazil, seized by Pseudomonas aeruginosa sepsis during a period ranged from July 1997 to July 1999, and to determine th...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Loureiro MM,de Moraes BA,Mendonca VL,Quadra MR,Pinheiro GS,Asensi MD

更新日期：2002-04-01 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

authors： Souza Rde C,Soares AC,Alves CL,Lorosa ES,Pereira MH,Diotaiuti L

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study was set up to evaluate the impact of two commercial larvicide formulations, Bacillus thuringiensis serovar israelensis base (Bti) at 15 ppm/1 min and temephos at 0.03 ppm of active ingredient, used to control Simulium pertinax populations, on associated non-target entomofauna occupying the same breeding site...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： de Araújo-Coutinho CJ,Cunha Ade B,Serra-Freire NM,de Mello RP

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Americas are presently experiencing the most serious known outbreak of Zika virus (ZIKV). Here, we present a novel set of analyses using environmental characteristics, vector mosquito distributions, and socioeconomic risk factors to develop the first map to detail global ZIKV transmission risk in multiple dimensio...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Samy AM,Thomas SM,Wahed AA,Cohoon KP,Peterson AT

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of the carrion fauna was made at two sites in Curitiba, State of Paraná, with the objective of describing the insects associated with carrion and setting up a preliminary data-base for medico-legal purposes in south Brazil. Vertebrate exclusion experiments were carried out in each season between 1994 and 1995...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Moura MO,de Carvalho CJ,Monteiro-Filho EL

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A polysaccharide-rich fraction (ATF) of medicinal mushroom Agaricus brasiliensis was evaluated on the candidacidal activity, H2O2 and nitric oxide (NO) production, and expression of mannose receptors by murine peritoneal macrophages. Mice received three intraperitoneal (i.p.) injections of ATF and after 48 h their per...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Martins PR,Gameiro MC,Castoldi L,Romagnoli GG,Lopes FC,Pinto AV,Loyola W,Kaneno R

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Elisa) was used to examine sera of 104 children and adults in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria for anti-toxocaral antibodies, out of which 31 (29.8%) were reactive. The seropositive rates were 30.4% for adults, 29.6% for children, 34% for females and 25.9% for males. However, the diff...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Ajayi OO,Duhlinska DD,Agwale SM,Njoku M

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess differentiation and relationships between Anopheles lesteri and Anopheles paraliae we established three and five iso-female lines of An. lesteri from Korea and An. paraliae from Thailand, respectively. These isolines were used to investigate the genetic relationships between the two taxa by crossing experime...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Taai K,Baimai V,Saeung A,Thongsahuan S,Min GS,Otsuka Y,Park MH,Fukuda M,Somboon P,Choochote W

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：:The high level of protection elicited in rodents and primates by the radiation-attenuated schistosome vaccine gives hope that a human vaccine relying on equivalent mechanisms is feasible. In humans, a vaccine would be undoubtedly administered to previously or currently infected individuals. We have therefore used the ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Coulson PS,Kariuki TM

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of altitude and latitude on some structure sizes of Lutzomyia intermedia was noted; several structures of insects collected in higher localities were greater, according to Bergmann's rule. This influence was more remarkable in two localities of the State of Espírito Santo, probably due to greater differe...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Marcondes CB,Lozovei AL,Falqueto A,Brazil RP,Galati E,Aguiar G,Souza N

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four cross sectional studies on morbidity of schistosomiasis mansoni were carried out respectively in 1973, 1974, 1979 and 1983 in the Village of Capitão Andrade, District of Itanhomi, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, through clinical and fecal examination of the population. In addition a comparison was made of the dina...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Coura JR,Conceição MJ,Pereira JB

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of studies on a larvicidal cyanobacterium that expresses a Bti cryIVD gene fusion are reported. Genetically altered Agmenellum quadruplicatum PR-6 is shown to be toxic to larvae of three major genera of disease-bearing mosquitos. Factors affecting expression of Bti genes in cyanobacteria are discussed. ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Murphy RC,Stevens SE Jr

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:A ribosome association factor (AF) was isolated from the yeast Sacchharomyces cerevisiae. Partial amino acid sequence of AF was determined from its fragment of 25 kDa isolated by treating AF with 2-(2-nitrophenylsulfenyl)-3-methyl-3'-Bromoindolenine (BNPS-skatole). This sequence has a 86% identity to the product of th...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Correia H,Medina R,Hernández A,Bustamante E,Chakraburtty K,Herrera F

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic DNA fragments from males of Psychodopygus wellcomei were isolated and shown to be useful as sensitive diagnostic probes for positively separating individuals of this species from those of Ps. complexus. These two members of the Ps. squamiventris series are found sympatrically in foci of cutaneous leishmaniasis...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Ready PD,Lainson R,Shaw JJ,Souza AA

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:Project Horizonte, an open cohort of homosexual and bisexual human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) negative men, is a component of the AIDS Vaccine Program, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The objective of this study was to compare volunteers testing HIV positive at cohort entry with a sample of those who test...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Carneiro M,Cardoso FA,Greco M,Oliveira E,Andrade J,Greco DB,Antunes CM

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review presents up-to-date information on the distribution and control measures of babesiosis in Latin America. Bovine babesiosis caused by Babesia bovis and B. bigemia will be emphasized. The disease is endemic in most countries and poses a serious economic burden on livestock production in the region (U.S. $136...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Montenegro-James S

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Argentina, most information on hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype distribution comes from studies carried out in Buenos Aires (east province). In order to identify HCV subtypes in central Argentina, nucleotide sequencing of core region was performed in samples from 36 patients living in Córdoba, the second most popul...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Ré V,Contigiani M,Yoshida CF,Lampe E

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00