Intracellular polyamine pools, oligopeptide-binding protein A expression, and resistance to aminoglycosides in Escherichia coli.

abstract：:Nontuberculous mycobacteria are ubiquitous and saprophytic organisms that have been implicated in a wide spectrum of diseases due to an increasing number of immunocompromised patients. The natural resistance of atypical mycobacteria to classical antituberculous drugs has encouraged research into new chemotherapeutic a...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Silva JL,Mesquita AR,Ximenes EA

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：:The recommended treatment for latent tuberculosis (TB) infection in adults is a daily dose of isoniazid (INH) 300 mg for six months. In Brazil, INH was formulated as 100 mg tablets. The treatment duration and the high pill burden compromised patient adherence to the treatment. The Brazilian National Programme for Tube...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Daher A,Pitta L,Santos T,Barreira D,Pinto D

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of meningitic angiostrongyliasis (MA) is based on clinical criteria. A lumbar puncture is used as a diagnostic tool, but it is an invasive procedure. The blood eosinophil levels are also assessed and used in the diagnosis of this disease. We enrolled 47 patients with serologically proven MA and 131 contr...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Sawanyawisuth K,Sawanyawisuth K,Senthong V,Limpawattana P,Intapan PM,Tiamkao S,Jitpimolmard S,Chotmongkol V,Barrett-Connor E

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article tries to demonstrate by new pathological findings (with the use of immunohistochemical technique and confocal laser microscopy) that chronic chagasic cardiomyopathy is a result of multiple factors involving myocarditis, immunodepression, severe fibrosis and microvessels dilatation and that all of these al...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： de Lourdes Higuchi M

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：:Sandfly prevalence in the Kani tribe settlements of Western Ghats in India was investigated. A total of 1,279 sandflies comprising 17 species was obtained. Sandfly abundance showed a negative correlation (r = -0.97, p = 0.003) with increase in altitudinal ranges from 0-1,000 m. When sandfly samples were grouped accord...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Ranganathan S,Swaminathan S

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since the early 1990s, programs to control Chagas disease in South America have focused on eradicating domiciliary Triatoma infestans, the main vector. Seroprevalence studies of the chagasic infection are included as part of the vector control programs; they are essential to assess the impact of vector contr...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Russomando G,Cousiño B,Sanchez Z,Franco LX,Nara EM,Chena L,Martínez M,Galeano ME,Benitez L

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective field study conducted from July 2000 to June 2001, adult Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus mosquitoes were caught from the municipality of Nova Iguaçu, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Virus isolation in Ae. albopictus clone C6/36 cell line and a semi-nested reverse transcription-polymerase chain react...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Lourenco-de-Oliveira R,Honorio NA,Castro MG,Schatzmayr HG,Miagostovich MP,Alves JC,Silva WC,Leite PJ,Nogueira RM

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Kilombero Malaria Project (KMP) attempts to define operationally useful indicators of levels of transmission and disease and health system relevant monitoring indicators to evaluate the impact of disease control at the community or health facility level. The KMP is a longitudinal community based study (N = 1024) i...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Teuscher T

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of the carrion fauna was made at two sites in Curitiba, State of Paraná, with the objective of describing the insects associated with carrion and setting up a preliminary data-base for medico-legal purposes in south Brazil. Vertebrate exclusion experiments were carried out in each season between 1994 and 1995...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Moura MO,de Carvalho CJ,Monteiro-Filho EL

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiostrongylus costaricensis is the causative agent of abdominal angiostrongyliasis, a zoonotic infection that may produce severe eosinophilic enterocolitis or hepatitis in humans. Parasites are usually not released in stools and serology has an important role in diagnosis. Since cross-reactivity is demonstrated betw...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Graeff-Teixeira C,Pascoal VF,Rodriguez R,Morassutti AL,Intapan PM,Maleewong W

更新日期：2020-09-21 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：:Four superoxide dismutase (SOD) activities (SOD I, II, III, and IV) have been characterized in the epimastigote form of Trypanosoma cruzi. The total extract was subjected to two successive ammonium sulphate additions between 35 and 85%, and the resulting fraction was purified using two continuous chromatography proces...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Mateo H,Marín C,Pérez-Cordón G,Sánchez-Moreno M

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:CD64 (FcγR1) is a high-affinity receptor for monomeric IgG1 and IgG3. Circulating neutrophils express very low amounts of CD64 on their surface. OBJECTIVES:Our primary aim was to investigate the utility of neutrophil CD64 surface expression as a biomarker of active pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). We hypothesis...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Corrêa RDS,Rodrigues LS,Pereira LHL,Nogueira OC,Leung J,Sousa MDS,Hacker MA,Siqueira HR,Capone D,Alves RLR,Pessolani MCV,Schmitz V,Pereira GMB

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:The prevalence of atopic diseases and diabetes is increasing worldwide though the concurrence of these pathologies in individual patients is found less frequent than it would be predicted. Moreover, co-existence of diabetes and allergy is generally marked by attenuation of their respective symptoms, and effective trea...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Carvalho VF,Barreto EO,Cordeiro RS,Lagente V,Martins MA,e Silva PM

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is no clear understanding of the outcome of reinfection in New World cutaneous leishmaniasis, and its role in the relationship to the development of protection or secondary disease. For this reason, reinfection experiments with homologous (Leishmania panamensis-L. panamensis) and heterologous (L. major-L. paname...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Osorio Y,Gonzalez SJ,Gama VL,Travi BL

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated the diagnostic value of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) performed in parallel to conventional methods at an American tegumentary leishmaniasis (ATL) referral centre for diagnosis. Accuracy parameters for PCR were calculated using 130 patients with confirmed ATL (ATL group), 15 patients e...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Fagundes A,Schubach A,Paula CC,Bogio A,Antonio Lde F,Schiavoni PB,Monteiro Vde S,Madeira Mde F,Quintella LP,Valete-Rosalino CM,Vasconcellos Ede C,Azeredo-Coutinho RB,Pacheco RS,Marzochi MC,Marzochi KB

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin II (AII), a product of rennin-angiotensin system, exerts an important role on the function of immune system cells. In this study, the effect of AII on the phagocytic activity of mouse peritoneal macrophages was assessed. Mice peritoneal macrophages were cultured for 48 h and the influence of different conc...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Belline P,da Melo PS,Haun M,Palhares FB,Boer PA,Gontijo JA,Figueiredo JF

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dipteran polytene chromosomes provide an excellent model for understanding in species complexes, as well as for structural and functional cytogenetics. The status of species in the Culex pipiens complex is controversial and the use of polytene chromosomes for cytogenetic analysis in the subfamily Culicinae has been di...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Campos J,Andrade CF,Recco-Pimentel SM

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：: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：: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 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

abstract：:Nitroarylidenemalononitriles and their cyanoacetamide derivatives with remarkable anti-epimastigote properties, were synthesized attempting to obtain new 3,5-diamino-4-(5'-nitroarylidene)-4H-thiadiazine 1,1-dioxide derivatives, which in previous reports had shown anti-Trypanosoma cruzi activity. Tests to evaluate the ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Muelas-Serrano S,Le-Senne A,Fernandez-Portillo C,Nogal JJ,Ochoa C,Gomez-Barrio A

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ketoconazole, an azole antifungic drug which is already in the market has also been demonstrated to be active against Trypanosoma cruzi experimental infections. In this paper we confirmed the drug effect and investigated its range of activity against different T. cruzi strains naturally resistant or susceptible to bot...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Brener Z,Cançado JR,Galvão LM,da Luz ZM,Filardi Lde S,Pereira ME,Santos LM,Cançado CB

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granuloma size is the variable most frequently used to evaluate the immunopathogenesis of schistosome infections. However, hepatic fibrosis is at the least an equally relevant variable. Hepatic fibrosis and the size of circumoval granulomas are frequently dissociated in experimental murine Schistosoma mansoni and S. j...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Cheever AW

更新日期：1997-09-01 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：:Mycobacteria, specially Mycobacterium tuberculosis are among the micro-organisms that are increasing dramatically the number of infections with death, all over the world. A great number of animal experimental models have been proposed to investigate the mechanisms involved in the host response against these intracellu...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Menezes-de-Lima-Júnior O,Henriques M das G

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00