Ionic imbalance and lack of effect of adjuvant treatment with methylene blue in the hamster model of leptospirosis.

abstract：:The cases of five patients with unusual manifestations of acute schistosomiasis mansoni are described in this paper. One patient developed skin lesions, three displayed diverse lung involvement, and one presented pyogenic liver abscesses caused by Staphylococcus aureus. ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Lambertucci JR,Rayes AA,Barata CH,Teixeira R,Gerspacher-Lara R

更新日期：1997-09-01 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：: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：:Genetic typing of pathogenic agents and of vectors has known impressive developments in the last 10 years, thanks to the progresses of molecular biology, and to the contribution of the concepts of evolutionary genetics. Moreover, we know more and more on the genetic susceptibility of man to infectious diseases. I prop...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Tibayrenc M

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present paper, we announce new draft genomes of four Leptospira interrogans strains named Acegua, RCA, Prea, and Capivara. These strains were isolated in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, from cattle, dog, Brazilian guinea pig, and capybara, respectively. ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Kremer FS,Eslabão MR,Jorge S,Oliveira NR,Labonde J,Santos MN,Monte LG,Grassmann AA,Cunha CE,Forster KM,Moreno LZ,Moreno AM,Campos VF,McBride AJ,Pinto LS,Dellagostin OA

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ecology of phlebotomine sandflies in an endemic focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Northern Venezuela (San Esteban, Carabobo State) was investigated through a year-term study. Three different habitats: viz. a house, a peridomestic area and a sylvatic area, were covered and the species composition, the abundance a...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Feliciangeli MD

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：:Anti-human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) "binding antibodies" (antibodies capable of binding to synthetic peptides or proteins) occur throughout HIV-1 infection, are high-titered and highly cross-reactive, as confirmed in this study by analyzing plasma from B and F genotype HIV-1 infected individuals. Plasma f...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Bongertz V,Teixeira SL,Grinztejn B,Pilotto JH,Veloso VG,Morgado MG,Bastos FI,Ouverney EP

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A seroepidemiological survey for toxocariasis, among 180 schoolchildren of the public schools of Sorocaba City, state of São Paulo, Brazil, was carried out from August 2000 to July 2001. ELISA test was performed using excretory and secretory antigens for the detection of IgG anti-Toxocara antibodies. Information regar...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Coelho LM,Silva MV,Dini CY,Giacon Neto AA,Novo NF,Silveira EP

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermophilic campylobacters were isolated from three sewage plants in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil and identified. Laboratory analysis of 390 sewage samples showed the presence of 169 thermophilic strains. The results demonstrated that human and animal pathogenic biotypes could be isolated from activated sludge during t...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Lauria-Filgueiras AL,Hofer E

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host lipids have been implicated in the pathogenesis of Toxoplasma gondii infection. To determine if Toxoplasma infection influences the lipid status in the normal host, we assessed serum lipids of Swiss-Webster mice during infection with the BGD-1 strain (type-2) at a series of time points. Mice were bled at days zer...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Milovanović I,Vujanić M,Klun I,Bobić B,Nikolić A,Ivović V,Trbovich AM,Djurković-Djaković O

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given their medical and veterinary relevance, the members of the Pipiens Assemblage are a worldwide target of ecological research. The distribution of Culex pipiens s.s. and Cx. quinquefasciatus converge in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where hybrids have been detected. Each member of the assemblage exhibits a distinct eco...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Cardo MV,Rubio A,Junges M,Vezzani D,Carbajo AE

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a neglected clinical form of public health importance that is quite prevalent in the northern and eastern parts of Egypt. A comprehensive study over seven years (January 2005-December 2011) was conducted to track CL transmission with respect to both sandfly vectors and animal reservoirs...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Samy AM,Doha SA,Kenawy MA

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article doi: 10.1590/0074-02760180073]. ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors：

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new species of the genus Cotylophoron (Trematoda--Paramphistomidae) --Cotylophoron travassosi sp. n.--is described. The measurements of the worm and its structures are compared with the valid known species. ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Costa HM,Guimaráes MP

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) has a low endemicity in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sexual transmission must play an important role in this virus, but the prevalence and risk factors have never been properly investigated. The aim of this paper is to determine the prevalence and risk factors for HBV infection in patients attending...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Oliveira LH,Silva IR,Xavier BL,Cavalcanti SM

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental infections by Trypanosoma (Megatrypanum) minasense were performed in primates - Saimiri sciureus and Callithrix penicillata - with the objective of searching for morphological variations of the blood trypomastigotes with respect to hosts and time of infection. We carried out morphological and morphometric...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Ziccardi M,Lourenco-de-Oliveira R

更新日期：1999-09-01 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：: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：:Trypanosoma cruzi acute infections often go unperceived, but one third of chronically infected individuals die of Chagas disease, showing diverse manifestations affecting the heart, intestines, and nervous systems. A common denominator of pathology in Chagas disease is the minimal rejection unit, whereby parasite-free...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Teixeira AR,Nascimento RJ,Sturm NR

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：: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：:CD8+ T cells have been implicated as critical effector cells in protection against the pre-erythrocytic stage of malaria in mice and humans following irradiated sporozoite immunization. Immunization experiments in animal models by several investigators have suggested different strategies for vaccination against malari...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Oliveira-Ferreira J,Daniel-Ribeiro C

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experimental model for acquired and congenital ocular toxoplasmosis as well as a model to induce experimental autoimmune uveitis (EAU) was investigated in Calomys callosus. Toxoplasma gondii, ME-49 strain, was used to infect males and pregnant- and not pregnant-females while S-antigen, a major glycoprotein of the r...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Pereira Mde F,Silva DA,Ferro EA,Mineo JR

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study's objective was to search for Cryptosporidium sp. in diarrheic feces from children aged zero to 12 years and cared for at medical units within Universidade Federal de Uberlândia or at a private practice in Uberlândia, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, from September 1992 to August 1993. Three fecal samples pre...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Gennari-Cardoso ML,Costa-Cruz JM,de Castro E,Lima LM,Prudente DV

更新日期：1996-09-01 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：: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：:In this work, a murine experimental model of toxocariasis has been developed in BALB/c, C57BL/10 and C3H murine strains orally inoculated with 4,000 Toxocara canis embryonated eggs, in order to investigate the isotype-specific immune responses against excretory-secretory antigens from larvae. T. canis specific IgG+M, ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Cuéllar C,Fenoy S,del Aguila C,Guillén JL

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics of tuberculosis (TB) patients related to a chain of recent TB transmissions were investigated. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) isolates (120) were genotyped using the restriction fragment length polymorphism-IS6110 (R), spacer oligotyping (S) and mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units-variabl...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Peñuelas-Urquides K,Martínez-Rodríguez HG,Enciso-Moreno JA,Molina-Salinas GM,Silva-Ramírez B,Padilla-Rivas GR,Vera-Cabrera L,Torres-de-la-Cruz VM,Martínez-Martínez YB,Ortega-García JL,Garza-Treviño EN,Enciso-Moreno L,Saucedo-Cárd

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sand fly identification is complex because it depends on the expertise of the taxonomist. The females show subtle morphological differences and the occurrence of the species complexes are usual in this taxon. Therefore, a fragment of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene is used for taxon barcoding to resolve ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Laurito M,Ontivero IM,Almirón WR

更新日期：2019-11-28 00:00:00