Toxoplasma gondii infection induces lipid metabolism alterations in the murine host.

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：:Lutzomyia georgii n. sp. and the female of L. tarapacaensis in the Series infraspinosa of the subgenus Evandromyia are described, from specimens collected in rainforest in the north of the State of Pará, Brazil. The new species was taken together with five other Evandromyia species including L. infraspinosa (sensu str...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Freitas RA,Barrett TV

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The preferred food items of the slugs Laevicaulis alte and the snails Achatina fulica were used to prepare 'poison baits' by injecting the pesticides 'Rogor' and 'Nuvan' to kill these mollusc pests. The 'poison baits' prepared with Trichosanthes dioica and Lycopersicum esculentum were accepted by 100% individuals of b...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Panigrahi A,Raut SK

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the emergence of West Nile virus (WNV) in North America in 1999, there have been several reports of WNV activity in Central and South American countries. To detect WNV in Brazil, we performed a serological survey of horses from different regions of Brazil using recombinant peptides from domain III of WNV. Positi...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Silva JR,Medeiros LC,Reis VP,Chavez JH,Munhoz TD,Borges GP,Soares OA,Campos CH,Machado RZ,Baldani CD,Silva ML,Faria JL,Silva EE,Figueiredo LT

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:A pseudogene, designated as "ps(5.8S+ITS-2)", paralogous to the 5.8S gene and internal transcribed spacer (ITS)-2 of the nuclear ribosomal DNA (rDNA), has been recently found in many triatomine species distributed throughout North America, Central America and northern South America. Among characteristics used as crite...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Zuriaga MA,Mas-Coma S,Bargues MD

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:Lutzomyia evandroi Costa Lima and Antunes, 1936 is found in Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil, in areas of visceral and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis and follows the same geographic distribution of L. longipalpis. The biological cycle, oviposition, morphological and behavioral characteristics of the species were ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： de Melo Ximenes Mde F,Maciel JC,Jerônimo SM

更新日期：2001-08-01 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：:Toxocara cati is a common feline parasite transmitted by the ingestion of embryonated eggs, by the transmammary route or by predation of paratenic hosts harbouring third-stage larvae in their bodies. In the present study, the larval distribution of T. cati in tissues and organs of Rattus norvegicus experimentally infe...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Santos SV,Lescano SZ,Castro JM,Chieffi PP

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:This was a retrospective descriptive study on a series of cases of schistosomal myeloradiculopathy (SMR) and the aim was to investigate the incidence of this disease and its clinical and epidemiological characteristics in cases diagnosed at three healthcare units in Pernambuco, Brazil between 1994-2006. The data were ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Araújo KC,Silva Cda R,Santos AG,Barbosa CS,Ferrari TC

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benznidazole (Bz) exhibits toxic side effects in animal studies and clinical use. Reductive metabolism of Bz in liver microsomes modulates the duration of its chemotherapeutic effect and its toxicity. The rate of this metabolism depends on age and is less intense in newborns and youngsters than in adults. In the prese...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Bulffer RF,Castro JA,Fanelli SL

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two essential oils of Lippia alba (Mill.) N.E. Brown (Verbenacea), the carvone and citral chemotypes and 15 of their compounds were evaluated to determine cytotoxicity and antifungal activity. Cytotoxicity assays for both the citral and carvone chemotypes were carried out with tetrazolium-dye, which showed a dose-depe...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Mesa-Arango AC,Montiel-Ramos J,Zapata B,Durán C,Betancur-Galvis L,Stashenko E

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) exhibits high genetic stability, as compared to other RNA viruses and particularly to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), genotypic subtypes of this human retrovirus have been characterized in isolates from diverse geographical areas. These are currently believed not...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Segurado AA,Biasutti C,Zeigler R,Rodrigues C,Damas CD,Jorge ML,Marchiori PE

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue fever, chikungunya or malaria affect millions of people each year and control solutions are urgently needed. An international research program is currently being developed that relies on the introduction of the bacterial endosymbiont Wolbachia pipientis into Aedes aegypti to cont...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Popovici J,Moreira LA,Poinsignon A,Iturbe-Ormaetxe I,McNaughton D,O'Neill SL

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies are available on hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) co-infection in populations living in small and medium-sized Brazilian cities. We evaluated the seroprevalence of these viruses in selected individuals from a clinic of infectology, who were referred to...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Portelinha Filho AM,Nascimento CU,Tannouri TN,Troiani C,Ascêncio EL,Bonfim R,D'Andrea LA,Prestes-Carneiro LE

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triatoma guasayana and two putative cryptic species pertaining to T. sordida complex (named groups 1 and 2) occur in sympatry in the Bolivian Chaco. Using multilocus enzyme electrophoresis and subsequent genetic analysis, our work assesses their population distribution and dispersal capacity in domestic, peridomestic,...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Noireau F,Gutierrez T,Flores R,Breniere F,Bosseno MF,Wisnivesky-Colli C

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acoustic signalling has been extensively studied in insect species, which has led to a better understanding of sexual communication, sexual selection and modes of speciation. The significance of acoustic signals for a blood-sucking insect was first reported in the XIX century by Christopher Johnston, studying the hear...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Vigoder Fde M,Ritchie MG,Gibson G,Peixoto AA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii is a strictly aerobic bacterium which causes severe infections, however its pathogenic characteristics are not well defined. Thirteen A. baumannii strains isolated from urine of hospitalized and nonhospitalized patients with different ages were investigated for the presence of virulence factors...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Braun G,Vidotto MC

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：:A study of crepuscular and night-biting mosquitoes was conducted at remote settlements along the Padauiri River, middle Negro River, state of Amazonas, Brazil. Collections were performed with human bait and a CDC-light trap on three consecutive days per month from June 2003-May 2004. In total, 1,203 h of collection we...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Suárez-Mutis MC,Fé NF,Alecrim W,Coura JR

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study had the objective of to analyze the demographic and bacteriologic data of 32 hospitalized newborns in an neonatal intensive care unit of a public maternity hospital in Rio de Janeiro city, Brazil, seized by Pseudomonas aeruginosa sepsis during a period ranged from July 1997 to July 1999, and to determine th...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Loureiro MM,de Moraes BA,Mendonca VL,Quadra MR,Pinheiro GS,Asensi MD

更新日期：2002-04-01 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：:In 2008, we have celebrated the centenary of the discovery of Toxoplasma gondii.Although this ubiquitous protozoan can generate devastating damage in foetuses and newborns, its treatment is the only field in which we have made little progress, despite a huge body of research, and has not yet been validated. Pregnant w...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Peyron F

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular evidence showed 46.2% of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in Mepraia spinolai insects from North-Central Chile, which is significantly higher than previous reports of up to 26% by microscopic observation. Our results show similar infection levels among nymphal stages, ranging from 38.3 to 54.1%, indicating that y...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Botto-Mahan C,Ortiz S,Rozas M,Cattan PE,Solari A

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a technique to separate male and female pupae of sand flies. This has reduced the labour to separate flies after emergence and also allows the isolation of unmated adults for behavioural and physiological studies. ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Brazil BG,Brazil RP

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infusions of Aspidosperma nitidum (Apocynaceae) wood bark are used to treat fever and malaria in the Amazon Region. Several species of this family are known to possess indole alkaloids and other classes of secondary metabolites, whereas terpenoids, an inositol and the indole alkaloids harmane-3 acid and braznitidumine...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Coutinho JP,Aguiar AC,dos Santos PA,Lima JC,Rocha MG,Zani CL,Alves TM,Santana AE,Pereira Mde M,Krettli AU

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An epidemic of sporotrichosis, a subcutaneous mycosis caused by the fungus Sporothrix schenckii, is ongoing in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in which cases of human infection are related to exposure to cats. In an attempt to demonstrate the zoonotic character of this epidemic using molecular methodology, we characterised by...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Reis RS,Almeida-Paes R,Muniz Mde M,Tavares PM,Monteiro PC,Schubach TM,Gutierrez-Galhardo MC,Zancopé-Oliveira RM

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The great difficulties in treating people and animals suffering from cryptosporidiosis have prompted the development of in vitro experimental models. Due to the models of in vitro culture, new extracellular stages of Cryptosporidium have been demonstrated. The development of these extracellular phases depends on the t...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Perez Cordón G,Marin C,Romero D,Rosales C,Sánchez Moreno M,Rosales MJ

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00