Comparison of adverse events following immunization with pandemic influenza A (H1N1)pdm09 vaccine with or without adjuvant among health professionals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

abstract：:An increasing amount of research has been conducted on immunoglobulin Y (IgY) because the use of IgY offers several advantages with respect to diagnostic testing, including its easy accessibility, low cost and translatability to large-scale production, in addition to the fact that it can be ethically produced. In a pr...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Bentes GA,Lanzarini NM,Lima LR,Manso PP,da Silva Ados S,Mouta Junior Sda S,Guimarães JR,de Moraes MT,Pelajo-Machado M,Pinto MA

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue outbreaks have occurred in several regions in Brazil and cocirculating dengue virus type 1 (DENV-1), DENV-2, and DENV-3 have been frequently observed. Dual infection by DENV-2 and DENV-3 was identified by type-specific indirect immunofluorescence assay and confirmed by reverse transcription polymerase chain rea...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Araújo FM,Nogueira RM,de Araújo JM,Ramalho IL,Roriz ML,de Melo ME,Coelho IC

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty specimens of five strains (10 per strain) of Helisoma duryi from Lima (Peru), St. Croix (Virgin Islands), Formosa (Brazil), Cartago (Costa Rica) and St. Vincent (Lesser Antilles), reared in isolation for about 150 days, laid 103 eggs. The numbers of eggs laid by the 10 specimens of each strain were respectively ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Paraense WL,Corrêa LR

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

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 schistosomicidal properties of Nigella sativa seeds were tested in vitro against Schistosoma mansoni miracidia, cercariae, and adult worms. Results indicate its strong biocidal effects against all stages of the parasite and also showed an inhibitory effect on egg-laying of adult female worms. In the present work w...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Mohamed AM,Metwally NM,Mahmoud SS

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chagas disease is a public health problem caused by infection with the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. There is currently no effective therapy for Chagas disease. Although there is some evidence for the beneficial effect of bone marrow-derived cells in chagasic disease, the mechanisms underlying their effects i...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Irion CI,Paredes BD,Brasil GV,Cunha STD,Paula LF,Carvalho AR,Carvalho ACC,Carvalho AB,Goldenberg RCDS

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The invasion of the erythrocyte by Plasmodium falciparum depends on the ability of the merozoite to move through the membrane invagination. This ability is probably mediated by actin dependent motors. Using affinity columns with G-actin and F-actin we isolated actin binding proteins from the parasite. By immunoblottin...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Forero C,Wasserman M

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The determination of amino acid changes in the envelope protein by direct sequencing of either genomic RNA or PCR-amplified cDNA fragments provides useful informations for assessing the genetic variability and the geographic distribution of the actually most widespread dengue-2 serotype. The possible link of variation...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Deubel V

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we investigated the larval dispersal associated with larval predation in experimental populations of Chrysomya albiceps and Cochliomyia macellaria. Frequency distribution of sampling units (G test) in the substrate was used to evaluate variation in larval dispersal. An experimental acrylic channel (1 x 0...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： de Andrade JB,Rocha FA,Rodrigues P,Rosa GS,Faria Ldel B,Von Zuben CJ,Rossi MN,Godoy WA

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the presence of Helicobacter pylori cytotoxin-associated gene (cagA)/vacuolating cytotoxin gene (vacA) among patients with chronic gastritis in Cuba and Venezuela. Gastric antrum biopsies were taken for culture, DNA extraction and PCR analysis. Amplification of vacA and cagA segm...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Ortiz-Princz D,Guariglia-Oropeza V,Avila M,Correnti M,Perrone M,Gutierrez B,Torres J,Megraud F,Cavazza ME

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:More sensitive methodologies are necessary to improve strongyloidiasis diagnosis. This study compared the sensitivities of the McMaster modified technique and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays, both performed in faecal samples. Lewis rats were subcutaneously infected with 4,000, 400 or 40 infective third-stage la...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Marra NM,Chiuso-Minicucci F,Machado GC,Zorzella-Pezavento SF,França TG,Ishikawa LL,Amarante AF,Sartori A,Amarante MR

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study sought the characterization of rotaviruses in a trial with a tetravalent rhesus-human rotavirus vaccine in Belém, Brazil in children who received three doses of vaccine or placebo in the 1st, 3rd and 5th months of life. Rotavirus electropherotypes, subgroups, G serotypes, G, [P] and [P], G genotypes were de...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Mascarenhas JD,Linhares AC,Gabbay YB,Leite JP

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phlebotomine sand flies Nyssomyia intermedia (Lutz & Neiva, 1912) and Nyssomyia neivai (Pinto, 1926) are very close and may be involved in the transmission of Leishmania spp. Ross, 1903 in Brazil. The biology of the first laboratory-reared generations of these species, descended from insects captured in Além Paraí...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Andrade Filho JD,Galati EA,Falcão AL

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:India was affected by a major outbreak of chikungunya fever caused by Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) during 2006-2007. Kerala was the worst affected state during 2007 with a contribution of 55.8% suspected cases in the country. However, except for clinically reported case records, no systematic information is available on ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Kumar NP,Suresh A,Vanamail P,Sabesan S,Krishnamoorthy KG,Mathew J,Jose VT,Jambulingam P

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty eight patients with localized cutaneous leishmaniasis from an area with Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis transmission had cultures performed with a modified Marzochís vacuum aspiratory puncture technique to establish sensitivity and contamination rate with this new method. Overall sensitivity of three aspirates...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Romero GA,Sampaio RN,Macedo Vde O,Marsden PD

更新日期：1999-07-01 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：:Five parasites are described in the lizard Amphisbaena alba (Amphisbaenidae) from the state of Par , North Brazil. Mature oocysts of Choleoeimeria amphisbaenae n. sp., are passed already mature in the faeces. They are ellipsoidal-cylindrical, average 33.7 x 22.8 m and are devoid of micropyle, oocyst residuum or polar...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Lainson R

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspartyl proteases are a class of enzymes that include the yeast aspartyl proteases and secreted aspartyl protease (Sap) superfamilies. Several Sap superfamily members have been demonstrated or suggested as virulence factors in opportunistic pathogens of the genus Candida. Candida albicans, Candida tropicalis, Candida...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Parra-Ortega B,Cruz-Torres H,Villa-Tanaca L,Hernández-Rodríguez C

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute infection with Trypanosoma cruzi results in intense myocarditis, which progresses to a chronic, asymptomatic indeterminate form. The evolution toward this chronic cardiac form occurs in approximately 30% of all cases of T. cruzi infection. Suppression of delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) has been proposed as a...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Thé TS,Portella RS,Guerreiro ML,Andrade SG

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major emergency efforts are being mounted for each vector-borne disease epidemiological crisis anew, while knowledge about the biology of arthropods vectors is dwindling slowly but continuously, as is the number of field entomologists. The discrepancy between the rates of production of knowledge and its use and need f...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Casas J,Lazzari C,Insausti T,Launois P,Fouque F

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cephalobium magdalensis n. sp. (Rhabditida: Diplogasteridae) found in Magdalena, Buenos Aires, and Cruznema lincolnensis n. sp. (Rhabditida: Rhabditidae) found in Lincoln, Buenos Aires, parasitizing the cricket Gryllodes laplatae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) are described and illustrated. C. magdalensis n. sp. is character...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Reboredo GR,Camino NB

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Only one drug is currently available for the treatment and control of schistosomiasis and the increasing risk of selecting strains of schistosome that are resistant to praziquantel means that the development of new drugs is urgent. With this objective we have chosen to target the enzymes modifying histones and in part...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Pierce RJ,Dubois-Abdesselem F,Caby S,Trolet J,Lancelot J,Oger F,Bertheaume N,Roger E

更新日期：2011-11-01 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 high sensitivity and the possibility of automation of the enzyme-linked-immunosorbent-assay (ELISA) has indicated this technique as one of the most useful serological test for epidemiological studies. In the present study, an ELISA for detection of IgG antibodies against adult worm antigens (IgG-ELISA) was investi...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： da Silva RM,Kanamura HY,Camargo ED,Chiodelli SG,Nakamura PM,Gargioni C,Vellosa SA,Antunes JL

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:The dual function of eosinophils has been evidenced in protective immunity against parasites as well as in pathological manifestations during allergic disorders. We have demonstrated that a new class of IgE receptors, Fc epsilon RII/CD23, was involved in the functional duality of eosinophils and other proinflammatory ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Nutten S,Trottein F,Gounni AS,Papin JP,Capron A,Capron M

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:We analyzed prospectively 326 laboratory-confirmed, uncomplicated malarial infections (46.3% due to Plasmodium vivax, 35.3% due to P. falciparum, and 18.4% mixed-species infections) diagnosed in 162 rural Amazonians aged 5-73 years. Thirteen symptoms (fever, chills, sweating, headache, myalgia, arthralgia, abdominal p...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： da Silva-Nunes M,Ferreira MU

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the distribution and infection of Biomphalaria glabrata with Schistosoma mansoni in all aquatic snail habitats in a rural area in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in relation to physico/biotic and behavioral factors. Snail and environmental surveys were carried out semi-annually between July 2001...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Kloos H,Passos LK,Loverde P,Oliveira RC,Gazzinelli A

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00