Appraisal of Phlebotomus argentipes habitat suitability using a remotely sensed index in the kala-azar endemic focus of Bihar, India.

abstract：:Thirteen species of helminth parasites were recovered from six species of charadriid shorebirds (Aves: Charadriiformes) from Belize: the ruddy turnstone, Arenaria interpres, the snowy plover, Charadrius alexandrinus, the semipalmated plover, C. semipalmatus, the killdeer, C. vociferus, the white-rumped sandpiper, Cali...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Canaris AG,Kinsella JM

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Through its life cycle from the insect vector to mammalian hosts Trypanosoma cruzi has developed clever strategies to reach the intracellular milieu where it grows sheltered from the hosts' immune system. We have been interested in several aspects of in vitro interactions of different infective forms of the parasite w...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Mortara RA,Procópio DO,Barros HC,Verbisck NV,Andreoli WK,Silva RB,da Silva S

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a general consensus that during chronic Trypanosoma cruzi infection, the host immune system induces complex processes to ensure the control of parasite growth while preserving the potential to mount and maintain a life-long controlled humoral and cellular immune response against the invading pathogen. This re...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Sathler-Avelar R,Vitelli-Avelar DM,Teixeira-Carvalho A,Martins-Filho OA

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspects related to hatching, lifetime, number of blood meals for molting, mortality, feeding time, and postfeeding defecation delay were evaluated and compared in each instar of three North American Triatominae: Triatoma gerstaeckeri, Triatoma lecticularia and Triatoma protracta, all of them fed on rabbits. No signifi...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Martínez-Ibarra JA,Alejandre-Aguilar R,Paredes-González E,Martínez-Silva MA,Solorio-Cibrián M,Nogueda-Torres B,Trujillo-Contreras F,Novelo-López M

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of deltamethrin of the sandfly population in a focus of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Viana, Espírito Santo State is described. The phlebotomine population density was determined inside and outside houses during a one year period in a treated and untreated area. The results showed a significant reduct...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Falcão AL,Falcão AR,Pinto CT,Gontijo CM,Falqueto A

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to test if serological distinction between patients with active and inactive neurocysticercosis (NCC), could be accomplished by the recognition of immunodominant peptides in total saline antigenic extract of Taenia solium metacestodes by IgG antibody in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and serum pai...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Barcelos IS,Moura LP,Costa VP,Ferreira MS,Costa-Cruz JM

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty six coprolites from an archaeological site in the province of Iquique, northern Chile, were examined for parasites. Coprolites were found in two excavation units, I and II (Tiliviche site), dated respectively at 5,900 B.C. to 4,110 B.C. and 4,110 B.C. to 1,950 B.C., and identified as of human origin. Only at th...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Ferreira LF,de Araújo AJ,Confalonieri UE,Nuñez L

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

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：:Investigation of the aetiology of viral meningitis in Brazil is most often restricted to cases that occur in the Southern and Southeastern Regions; therefore, the purpose of this study is to describe the viral meningitis cases that occurred in state of Pará, Northern Brazil, from January 2005-December 2006. The detect...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Castro CM,Oliveira DS,Macedo O,Lima MJ,Santana MB,Wanzeller AL,Silveira Ed,Gomes Mde L

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue parasitism, inflammatory process (histologic methods) and sympathetic denervation (glyoxylic acid-induced histofluorescence for demonstration of catecholamines) were studied in the heart (atrium and ventricle) and the submandibular gland of rats infected with the Y strain of Trypanosoma cruzi. In the heart para...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Machado CR,Ribeiro AL

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous studies it was shown that the recombinant molecule, r-Sm14, induces high levels of protection against Schistosoma mansoni infection in two outbred animal models and immune crossprotection against infection by Fasciola hepatica in Swiss outbred mice. r-Sm14 was derived from a living worm extract, called SE,...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Thaumaturgo N,Vilar MM,Diogo CM,Edelenyi R,Tendler M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytidine deaminase (MtCDA), encoded by cdd gene (Rv3315c), is the only enzyme identified in nucleotide biosynthesis pathway of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that is able to recycle cytidine and deoxycytidine. An M. tuberculosis knockout strain for cdd gene was obtained by allelic replacement. Evaluation of mRNA expressio...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Villela AD,Rodrigues-Junior VS,Pinto AFM,Falcão VCA,Sánchez-Quitian ZA,Eichler P,Bizarro CV,Basso LA,Santos DS

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive Montenegro's skin test is a delayed type hypersensitivity reaction widely used as indicative of previous infection with Leishmania in both humans and dogs. Montenegro's antigen consists of a crude Leishmania antigen solution, usually containing thimerosal as preserving agent. In this work it is shown that a l...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Paranhos-Silva M,Pontes-de-Carvalho LC,de Sá Oliveira GG,Nascimento EG,dos-Santos WL

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus sphaericus produces at least two toxins which are highly toxic to mosquito larvae. The binary toxin, which is comprised of proteins of 51.4 and 41.9 kDa, is present in all highly insecticidal strains. The 100 kDa SSII-1 toxin is present in most highly insecticidal as well as the weakly insecticidal strains. T...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Davidson EW

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：: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：:The kidney trematode Paratanaisia bragai is reported for the first time parasitizing the ring-necked pheasant (Phasianus colchicus L., 1758) and the pathological alterations associated to the parasitism are referred on the basis of 50 specimens of this bird from backyard flocks in 11 counties of the state of Rio de Ja...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Gomes DC,Menezes RC,Tortelly R,Pinto RM

更新日期：2005-05-01 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：:Angiostrongylus cantonensis is the etiologic agent of eosinophilic meningoencephalitis in humans. Cases have been recorded in many parts of the world, including Brazil. The aim of this study was to compare the differences in the biology and morphology of two different Brazilian haplotypes of A. cantonensis: ac8 and ac...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Monte TC,Gentile R,Garcia J,Mota E,Santos JN,Maldonado Júnior A

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an organism that is frequently transmitted in hospitals and perinatal units. The MRSA is considered a public health problem in neonatology because of its strong potential for dissemination in the wards associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality. In this ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Loureiro MM,de Moraes BA,Quadra MR,Pinheiro GS,Suffys PN,Asensi MD

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New alternative insecticides are necessary for the chemical control of head lice. In this study the fumigant knockdown time 50% (KT50) and repellency index (RI) of three aliphatic lactones was compared with two essential oils and DDVP, against permethrin-resistance Pediculus humanus capitis from Argentina. In the fumi...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Toloza AC,Zygadlo J,Mougabure-Cueto G,Zerba E,Faillaci S,Picollo MI

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to identify specific markers that mirror liver fibrosis progression as an alternative to biopsy when biopsy is contraindicated, especially in children. After liver biopsies were performed, serum samples from 30 hepatitis C virus (HCV) paediatric patients (8-14 years) were analysed and ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Nassef YE,Shady MM,Galal EM,Hamed MA

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author studied by the complement fixation test the influenza virus strains isolated in Rio de Janeiro during the 1973 epidemic. He prepared immunesera in hamsters by the inoculation of the allantoic fluid from infected chick embryos with each of the 7 isolated strains and the standard strains. The soluble antigens...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Lacorte JG

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BACKGROUND The main strategy to control human malaria still relies on specific drug treatment, limited now by Plasmodium falciparum-resistant parasites, including that against artemisinin derivatives. Despite the large number of active compounds described in the literature, few of them reached full development against...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Penna-Coutinho J,Aguiar AC,Krettli\/ AU

更新日期：2018-12-06 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：BACKGROUND:Dengue virus (DENV) has circulated in Brazil for over 30 years. During this time, one serotype has cyclically replaced the other, until recently, when all four distinct serotypes began to circulate together. Persistent circulation of DENV for long time periods makes sequential infections throughout a person'...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Oliveira RA,de Oliveira-Filho EF,Fernandes AI,Brito CA,Marques ET,Tenório MC,Gil LH

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major advance in our understanding of the natural history of Schistosoma haematobium-related morbidity has come through the introduction of the portable ultrasound machines for non-invasive examination of the kidneys and bladder. With the use of generators or battery packs to supply power in non-clinical field setti...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： King CH

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical mycology has greatly benefited from the introduction of molecular techniques. New knowledge on molecular genetics has provided both theoretical and practical frameworks, permitting important advances in our understanding of several aspects of pathogenic fungi. Considering Paracoccidioides brasiliensis in parti...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Richini-Pereira VB,Bosco Sde M,Theodoro RC,Macoris SA,Bagagli E

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

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：:The dissemination of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance genes may pose a substantial public health risk. In the present work, the occurrences of blaCTX-M and plasmid-mediated ampC and qnr genes were investigated in Escherichia coli from 16 chicken carcasses produced by four commercial brands in Brazil. Of the b...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Botelho LA,Kraychete GB,Costa e Silva JL,Regis DV,Picão RC,Moreira BM,Bonelli RR

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00