A palaeoparasitological analysis of rodent coprolites from the Cueva Huenul 1 archaeological site in Patagonia (Argentina).

abstract：:The present paper reports acuarioid nematodes recovered from avian hosts. A new species of the genus Schistorophus Railliet, 1916 is proposed based mainly on findings referring to ptilina, spicules and vagina. Ancyracanthopsis coronata (Molin, 1860) Chabaud & Petter, 1959 is referred again in Brazil since its proposit...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Pinto RM,Vicente JJ,Muniz-Pereira LC,Noronha D

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Warileya lumbrerasi n. sp. is described from the northern Peruvian Andes. This species was collected inside houses, and is the seventh species described within the genus Warileya Hertig, 1948. ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Ogusuku E,Perez JE,Davies CR,Villaseca P

更新日期：1996-11-01 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：:To study changes in survival, in biological activities and behavior of planorbids submitted to increased hydrostatic pressure, we developed a technique using two transparent chambers and a hydraulic piston. The apparatus permitted renewal of the liquid medium without substantial variations in pressure, thus eliminatin...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Jurberg P,Soares MS,Mascitelli AC,Favre TC,Barbosa JV

更新日期：1988-01-01 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 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 diagnosis of single-lesion paucibacillary leprosy remains a challenge. Reviews by expert dermatopathologists and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) results obtained from 66 single-plaque biopsy samples were compared. Histological findings were graded as high (HP), medium (MP) or low (LP) probability of ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Barbieri RR,Sales AM,Illarramendi X,Moraes MO,Nery JA,Moreira SJ,Sarno EN,Machado Ade M,Bozza FA

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this work were to determine the prevalence of Babesia bovis, Babesia bigemina, and Anaplasma marginale detecting antibodies in cattle raised in the semi-arid region of the state of Bahia, Brazil, through indirect enzyme linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) and to compare the performances of indirect e...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Barros SL,Madruga CR,Araújo FR,Menk CF,de Almeida MA,Melo EP,Kessler RH

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We collected and analyzed 500 samples of human milk, from five Brazilian cities (100 from each) to detect methicillin-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) producing enterotoxins. We found 57 strains of MRSA, and the mecA gene, responsible for resistance, was detected in all of them using a specific molecu...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Novak FR,Almeida JA,Warnken MB,Ferreira-Carvalho BT,Hagler AN

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From October 2000 to April 2001, insecticide bioassays were conducted in 18 ranches from 10 counties in the states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, in Central Brazil. Horn flies from wild populations were exposed to diazinon-impregnated filter papers immediately after collection on cattle, and mortality was reco...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Barros AT,Gomes A,Ismael AP,Koller WW

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents epidemiological, laboratory, and clinical data on 12 years of dengue virus activity in the State of Rio de Janeiro from the time the disease was first confirmed virologically in April 1986 through April 1998. DEN-1 and DEN-2 viruses are the serotypes circulating in the state and were responsible fo...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Nogueira RM,Miagostovich MP,Schatzmayr HG,dos Santos FB,de Araújo ES,de Filippis AM,de Souza RV,Zagne SM,Nicolai C,Baran M,Teixeira Filho G

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The insect fat body plays major roles in the intermediary metabolism, in the storage and transport of haemolymph compounds and in the innate immunity. Here, the overall structure of the fat body of five species of mosquitoes (Aedes albopictus, Aedes fluviatilis, Culex quinquefasciatus, Anopheles aquasalis and Anophele...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Martins GF,Serrão JE,Ramalho-Ortigão JM,Pimenta PF

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new species of planorbid mollusc, Plesiophysa dolichomastix (Greek dolichos = long, mastix = flagellum), collected from Lagoa da Pedra, municipality of Santa Rosa, state of Goiás, Brazil (15 degrees 01'S, 47 degrees 13'W) is described. It is indistinguishable by the shell characters from the five congeneric species ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Paraense WL

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triatoma brasiliensis is composed of at least four geographic populations (brasiliensis, melanica, macromelasoma, and juazeiro) that have distinct chromatic, morphologic, biologic and ecologic patterns, and genetic composition. Reciprocal crosses between all pairwise combinations were carried out in order to evaluate ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Costa J,Almeida CE,Dujardin JP,Beard CB

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:In this paper a discussion is made on the pathogenesis of schistosomiasis mansoni in mice, presented from the perspectives of "processes", "mediators", "strategies for study" and "disease". These concepts overlap considerably. Regarding "processes", granulomas, fibrosis and vasculitis are discussed. The role of mediat...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Cheever AW

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosoma mansoni infections are associated with a strong Th2 cytokine response. Treatment of mice with IL-12 or anti-IL-2 or anti-IL-4 before i.v. injection of eggs increased IFN-gamma production and downregulated Th2 responses and pulmonary granuloma size. Conversely, anti-IFN-gamma antibody treatment increased Th...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Cheever AW,Jankovic D,Yap GS,Kullberg MC,Sher A,Wynn TA

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:Here, we observed the uptake of membrane-impermeant molecules by cercariae as they penetrate the skin and are transformed into schistosomula. We propose that membrane-impermeant molecules, Lucifer Yellow, Propidium iodide and Hoechst 33258 enter the parasite through both thenephridiopore and the surface membrane and t...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Thornhill J,Kusel J,Oliviera FA,Ribeiro F,Lima SF,Coelho PM,McVeigh P,Mattos AC

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：:Five field populations of Musca domestica L. collected in poultry farms were bioassayed in order to detect possible resistance to the larvicide cyromazine in Brazil. The concentrations used were 0, 0.5, 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 1, 2, 4 and 8 ppm. Three populations (Petrópolis, RJ, Montes Claros, MG and Promissão, SP) were resis...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Pinto MC,do Prado AP

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new species of Brazilian phlebotomine sandfly found in Brazil, municipality of Diamantina, state of Minas Gerais, is described based on males and females collected in a quartzite cave. The body of spermathecae is continuous to the individual duct, lanky and tapering at the end, with conical shaped, not striated and ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Barata RA,Serra e Meira PC,Carvalho GM

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Domiciliated Rhodnius prolixus and sylvatic R. colombiensis were analyzed in order to confirm their genetic divergence and verify the risk that the latter represents in the domiciliation process, and to provide tools for identifying the sources of possible reinfestation by triatomines in human dwellings allowing contr...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Jaramillo C,Montaña MF,Castro LR,Vallejo GA,Guhl F

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visceral leishmaniasis, or kala-azar, is recognised as a serious emerging public health problem in India. In this study, environmental parameters, such as land surface temperature (LST) and renormalised difference vegetation indices (RDVI), were used to delineate the association between environmental variables and Phl...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Kesari S,Bhunia GS,Chatterjee N,Kumar V,Mandal R,Das P

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The four dominant outer membrane proteins (46, 38, 33 and 28 kDa) were detected by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) in a semi-purified preparation of vesicle membranes of a Neisseria meningitidis (N44/89, B:4:P1.15:P5.5,7) strain isolated in Brazil. The N-terminal amino acid sequenc...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： De Simone SG,Soares SA,Souza AL,Danelli MG

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As pyrethroids are presently the favored group of insecticides to control triatomines, we performed a series of bioassays to determine the intrinsic activity of some of the main compounds used in the control campaigns, against five of the main species of triatomines to be controlled. Comparing the insecticides it can ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Oliveira Filho AM

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene reporter-fluorescent cells have emerged as alternative method for drug screening. OBJECTIVE:Achievement of constitutive expression of fluorescent protein GFP by Leishmania braziliensis as alternative method for drug screening. METHODS:L. braziliensis-GFP was generated using Leishmania tarentolae pLEXS...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Bastos MS,Souza LÂ,Onofre TS,Silva A Júnior,Almeida MR,Bressan GC,Fietto JL

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：:Four diamines and three amino alcohols derived from 1-decanol, 1-dodecanol and 1,2-dodecanediol were evaluated in an in vitro assay against a mixture of trypomastigote and intracellular amastigote forms of Trypanosoma cruzi. Two of these compounds (6 and 7) showed better activity against both proliferative stages of T...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Sales Júnior PA,Rezende Júnior CO,Le Hyaric M,Almeida MV,Romanha AJ

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00