Spatial and temporal changes in Lutzomyia longipalpis abundance, a Leishmania infantum vector in an urban area in northeastern Argentina.

abstract：:The chromatin of Trypanosoma congolense was analyzed by electron microscopy. The chromatin is organized as nucleosome filaments but does not form a 30 nm fiber. There are five groups of histones, including a histone H1-like protein, which as a molecular weight within the range of the core histones, and is extremely hy...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Schlimme W,Burri M,Betschart B,Hecker H

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Program for Schistosomiasis Control within the Unified Health System (PCE-SUS) was implemented by 1999 in the Rainforest Zone or "Zona da Mata" of Pernambuco (ZMP) aiming to carry out biennial stool surveys of whole populations through municipal health organs followed by treatment of the positives through the loca...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Favre TC,Ximenes RA,Galvão AF,Pereira AP,Wanderlei TN,Barbosa CS,Pieri OS

更新日期：2006-09-01 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 extent of genomic variability of clones of Schistosoma mansoni obtained from field isolates was compared with that of strains that have been laboratory maintained. Analysis was undertaken using randomly amplified polymorphic DNAs (RAPDs) generated with three primers. Phenograms showing the similarity among the clo...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Pinto PM,Brito CF,Passos LK,Tendler M,Simpson AJ

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin II (AII), a product of rennin-angiotensin system, exerts an important role on the function of immune system cells. In this study, the effect of AII on the phagocytic activity of mouse peritoneal macrophages was assessed. Mice peritoneal macrophages were cultured for 48 h and the influence of different conc...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Belline P,da Melo PS,Haun M,Palhares FB,Boer PA,Gontijo JA,Figueiredo JF

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first report of adult and nymphs (20 nymphs of all stages and 4 adults) of Microtriatoma trinidadensis (Lent 1951) (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) collected in peridomestic environment, in the department of La Paz, Bolivia. These specimens were associated to Rhodnius stali Lent, Jurberg & Galvão 1993....

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： De la Riva J,Matias A,Torrez M,Martínez E,Dujardin JP

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Brazil, the Yellow Fever virus (YFV) is endemic in the Amazon, from where it eventually expands into epidemic waves. Coastal south-eastern (SE) Brazil, which has been a YFV-free region for eight decades, has reported a severe sylvatic outbreak since 2016. The virus spread from the north toward the south o...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Abreu FVS,Delatorre E,Dos Santos AAC,Ferreira-de-Brito A,de Castro MG,Ribeiro IP,Furtado ND,Vargas WP,Ribeiro MS,Meneguete P,Bonaldo MC,Bello G,Lourenço-de-Oliveira R

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lack of an experimental animal model for the study of dengue pathogenesis is a limiting factor for the development of vaccines and drugs. In previous studies, our group demonstrated the susceptibility of BALB/c mice to infection by dengue virus (DENV) 1 and 2, and the virus was successfully isolated in several org...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Rasinhas ADC,Silva MAND,Caldas GC,Jácome FC,Leonardo R,Santos FBD,Nunes PCG,Barth OM,Barreto-Vieira DF

更新日期：2018-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of congenital toxoplasmosis (CT) and to assess the performances of prenatal and neonatal diagnoses. From 1994-2005, in Toulouse University Hospital, France, amniocentesis was performed on 352 pregnant women who were infected during pregnancy. All women were treated ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Bessières MH,Berrebi A,Cassaing S,Fillaux J,Cambus JP,Berry A,Assouline C,Ayoubi JM,Magnaval JF

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lapachol was chemically modified to obtain its thiosemicarbazone and semicarbazone derivatives. These compounds were tested for antimicrobial activity against several bacteria and fungi by the broth microdilution method. The thiosemicarbazone and semicarbazone derivatives of lapachol exhibited antimicrobial activity a...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Souza MA,Johann S,Lima LA,Campos FF,Mendes IC,Beraldo H,Souza-Fagundes EM,Cisalpino PS,Rosa CA,Alves TM,de Sá NP,Zani CL

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：:With the currently known distribution of genera and species of the tribe Triatomini Jeannel, 1919, maps and diagrams were prepared, showing the geographical area occupied by the species and their respective dispersion in grades of latitude and altitude. Two genera are not treated: Panstrongylus Berg, 1879, already pub...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Galvão C,Jurberg J,Carcavallo RU,Segura CA,Galíndez Girón I,Curto de Casas SI

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:The present report describes an alternative method for in vitro detection of HIV-1-specific antibody secretion in 24h of culture employing as stimulant of peripheral blood mononuclear cells the disrupted inactivated whole virus adsorbed onto microwells in a commercial ELISA kit plates. The results obtained from this t...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Caterino-de-Araujo A

更新日期：1992-04-01 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：:The evaluation of the activity of the aqueous and ethyl acetate extracts of the leaves of Piper regnellii was tested against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. The aqueous extract displayed a weak activity against Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis with minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) and minima...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Pessini GL,Dias Filho BP,Nakamura CV,Cortez DA

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial DNA of Biomphalaria tenagophila, a mollusc intermediate host of Schistosoma mansoni in Brazil, was sequenced and characterised. The genome size found for B. tenagophila was 13,722 bp and contained 13 messenger RNAs, 22 transfer RNAs (tRNA) and two ribosomal RNAs (rRNA). In addition to sequencing, the mit...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Jannotti-Passos LK,Ruiz JC,Caldeira RL,Murta SM,Coelho PM,Carvalho OS

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of transmitted human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 drug-resistance (TDR) at the time of antiretroviral therapy initiation is associated with failure to achieve viral load (VL) suppression. Here, we report TDR surveillance in a specific population of men who have sex with men (MSM) in Belo Horizonte, Braz...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Tupinambás U,Duani H,Martins AV,Aleixo AW,Greco DB

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Necrophagous insects, mainly Diptera and Coleoptera, are attracted to specific stages of carcass decomposition, in a process of faunistic succession. They are very important in estimating the postmortem interval, the time interval between the death and the discovery of the body. In studies done with pig carcasses expo...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Carvalho LM,Thyssen PJ,Linhares AX,Palhares FA

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citral, the main constituent of lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus) essential oil, was added to Trypanosoma cruzi cultures grown in TAU3AAG medium to observe the effect on the epimastigote-to-trypomastigote differentiation process (metacyclogenesis). Our results showed that citral (20 μg/mL) did not affect epimastigote v...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Cardoso J,Soares MJ

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hepatitis C virus (HCV) can be detected in blood and other bodily fluids, such as saliva, semen and gastric juices. The aim of this study was to compare the HCV viral loads in the serum and saliva of infected patients. Twenty-nine patients with detectable HCV RNA in their serum and saliva were included in this stu...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Menezes GB,Pereira FA,Duarte CA,Carmo TM,Silva Filho HP,Zarife MA,Krieger MA,Reis EA,Reis MG

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：: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：:A rational method of search for natural neolignans of desired structures is outlined. This involves consultation of a collection of chemical profiles of plant families. The profiles are assembled considering the biosynthetic class (in the present case lignoids), subclass (neolignans), structural types (neolignan skele...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Gottlieb OR

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The infection pattern in Swiss mice and Triatomine bugs (Rhodnius neglectus) of eleven clones and the original stock of a Trypanosoma cruzi isolate, derived from a naturally infected Didelphis marsupialis, were biochemically and biologically characterized. The clones and the original isolate were in the same zymodeme ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Lima VS,Mangia RH,Carreira JC,Marchevsky RS,Jansen AM

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first report on occurrence of Biomphalaria straminea in the district of São José de Almeida (municipality of Jaboticatubas) State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The presence of B. glabrata and B. tenagophila had already been reported in this area. Such municipality is part of the metropolitan region of Belo Hori...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Massara CL,Carvalho Odos S,Caldeira RL,Jannotti-Passos LK,Schall VT

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis in 832 pregnant women in Miracema, Rio de Janeiro, was determined and 75.1% (625) and 2.0% (17) were anti-Toxoplasma gondii IgG and IgM positive, respectively. Out of the 17 IgM positive pregnant women, only one had low avidity IgG corresponding to the acute phase of the infection. ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Ribeiro AC,Mutis MS,Fernandes O

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：:Cytokines are important in the cell-mediated response to Schistosoma mansoni eggs. We have found that Th2 cytokine responses (e.g. IL-4 and IL-5) are augmented after egg laying begins while Th1 responses (IL-2 and IFN-gamma) are down regulated in S. mansoni infected mice. Treatment of mice with anti-IL-5 monoclonal an...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Cheever AW,Xu Y,Macedonia JG,Cox T,Hieny S,Sher A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of tRNA array, a region with high tRNA gene number and density, has been demonstrated in Mycobacterium genus. However, a recent phylogenomic study revealed the existence of five distinct monophyletic groups (genera) within this genus. Considering this new scenario, and based on in-silico analyses, we have...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Morgado SM,Vicente ACP

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00