A comparative study of congenital toxoplasmosis between public and private hospitals from Uberlândia, MG, Brazil.

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：:We report the first two cases of Trichosporon mycotoxinivorans infections in Latin America. We also conducted a literature review and a microbiological investigation, including that of clinical and environmental isolates. A 30-year-old man with chronic renal failure had disseminated infection after dialysis and a 15-y...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Almeida JN Jr,Francisco EC,Barberino MGMA,Silva LVRFD Filho,Brandão OM,Colombo AL,Padovan ACB

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of human cutaneous leishmaniasis in small towns is sometimes made without the species identification of the Leishmania, even in areas without previous epidemiological surveys. Here we report the isolation of a Leishmania strain from a patient of Rincão, state of São Paulo, that was identified by isoenzym...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Pinto MC,Rosa JA,Fernandes ZM,Graminha MA,Mine JC,Allegretti SM,Delort S,Riedel C,Paes EL,Cupolillo E

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BACKGROUND Fluctuations in climate have been associated with variations in mosquito abundance. OBJECTIVES To analyse the influence of precipitation, temperature, solar radiation, wind speed and humidity on the oviposition dynamics of Aedes aegypti in three distinct environmental areas (Brasília Teimosa, Morro da Conce...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Santos ICDS,Braga C,de Souza WV,de Oliveira ALS,Regis LN

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：: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：:Mitochondrial DNA of Biomphalaria tenagophila, a mollusc intermediate host of Schistosoma mansoni in Brazil, was sequenced and characterised. The genome size found for B. tenagophila was 13,722 bp and contained 13 messenger RNAs, 22 transfer RNAs (tRNA) and two ribosomal RNAs (rRNA). In addition to sequencing, the mit...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Jannotti-Passos LK,Ruiz JC,Caldeira RL,Murta SM,Coelho PM,Carvalho OS

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：:The characteristics of tuberculosis (TB) patients related to a chain of recent TB transmissions were investigated. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) isolates (120) were genotyped using the restriction fragment length polymorphism-IS6110 (R), spacer oligotyping (S) and mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units-variabl...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Peñuelas-Urquides K,Martínez-Rodríguez HG,Enciso-Moreno JA,Molina-Salinas GM,Silva-Ramírez B,Padilla-Rivas GR,Vera-Cabrera L,Torres-de-la-Cruz VM,Martínez-Martínez YB,Ortega-García JL,Garza-Treviño EN,Enciso-Moreno L,Saucedo-Cárd

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal malnutrition during the lactation period in early development may have long-term programming effects on adult offspring. We evaluated the combined effects of parasitological behaviour and histopathological features and malnutrition during lactation. Lactating mice and their pups were divided into a control gr...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Corrêa CL,Lisboa PC,Oliveira Ed,Moura EG,Oliveira RM,Gomes AC,Machado-Silva JR

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A massive and homogeneous amount of amastigote-like forms was detected in the stomodeal valve (SV) and the thoracic mid-gut (TMG) of Leishmania major-infected Phlebotomus papatasi, which received a second blood meal 13 to 21 days post-infection on healthy anaesthetized hamsters. After re-feeding, the infected sand fli...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Añez N,Tang Y,Rojas A,Crisante G,Killick-Kendrick M,Killick-Kendrick R

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The object of the investigation was the evaluation of the susceptibility to antibiotic and chemotherapeutic agents of 240 strains of Salmonella agona isolated from different sources (human, food and environment) obtained from five Brazilian states (Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Pernambuco and Rio Grande do ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Solari CA,dos Reis EM,Dias JC,Hofer E

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoblot analysis was used to investigate antigenic differences among clinical isolates of Leishmania amazonensis and their role in the etiology of the disease. Western blots of promastigote homogenates were analyzed with either monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) specific for the L. mexicana complex (M-4, M-6, M-9, and M-...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Leon LL,Machado GM,Barral A,de Carvalho-Paes LE,Grimaldi Júnior G

更新日期：1992-04-01 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：:The global emergence and spread of malaria parasites resistant to antimalarial drugs is the major problem in malaria control. The genetic basis of the parasite's resistance to the antimalarial drug chloroquine (CQ) is well-documented, allowing for the analysis of field isolates of malaria parasites to address evolutio...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Sutar SK,Gupta B,Ranjit M,Kar SK,Das A

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high level of protection elicited in rodents and primates by the radiation-attenuated schistosome vaccine gives hope that a human vaccine relying on equivalent mechanisms is feasible. In humans, a vaccine would be undoubtedly administered to previously or currently infected individuals. We have therefore used the ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Coulson PS,Kariuki TM

更新日期：2006-09-01 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 Program for Schistosomiasis Control within the Unified Health System (PCE-SUS) was implemented by 1999 in the Rainforest Zone or "Zona da Mata" of Pernambuco (ZMP) aiming to carry out biennial stool surveys of whole populations through municipal health organs followed by treatment of the positives through the loca...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Favre TC,Ximenes RA,Galvão AF,Pereira AP,Wanderlei TN,Barbosa CS,Pieri OS

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six clinical isolates of influenza A viruses were examined for hemagglutinin receptor specificity and neuraminidase substrate specificity. All of the viral isolates minimally passaged in mammalian cells demonstrated preferential agglutination of human erythrocytes enzymatically modified to contain NeuAc alpha 2,6Gal s...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Couceiro JN,Baum LG

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiostrongylus costaricensis lives in the cecal and mesenteric arteries of its vertebrate hosts, and causes an inflammatory disease in humans. To investigate unknown aspects of the abdominal angiostrogyliasis pathogenesis, infected Sigmodon hispidus were sequentially studied in different times of infection. The study...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Mota EM,Lenzi HL

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a paucity of studies on the cell biology of Sporothrix luriei, the less common of the pathogenic Sporothrix species worldwide. The production of DHN-melanin, eumelanin, and pyomelanin were evaluated on the mycelial and yeast forms of the S. luriei ATCC 18616 strain. The mycelial form of this species produced ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Cruz ILR,Figueiredo-Carvalho MHG,Zancopé-Oliveira RM,Almeida-Paes R

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fibrosis in the peripheral nerve is the end stage of leprous neuropathy and the cause of the resulting permanent neural function impairments. Preventive measures to avoid this irreversible pathological state are a relief strategy for leprosy sufferers. OBJECTIVES:The present study describes the frequency of...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Antunes SLG,Jardim MR,Vital RT,Pascarelli BMO,Nery JADC,Amadeu TP,Sales AM,da Costa EAF,Sarno EN

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The global malaria situation has scarcely improved in the last 100 years, despite major advances in our knowledge of the basic biology, epidemiology and clinical basis of the disease. Effective malaria control, leading to a significant decrease in the morbidity and mortality attributable to malaria, will require a mul...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Riley EM

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosomiasis in America with the exception of Brazil, behaves as a chronic mild disease with few clinical manifestations due to low parasite burden. These features restrict the clinical and parasitological diagnosis. The most commonly used stool examination method, Kato-Katz, becomes insensitive when the majority o...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： de Noya BA,Noya O,Balzan C,Cesari IM

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent of genomic variability of clones of Schistosoma mansoni obtained from field isolates was compared with that of strains that have been laboratory maintained. Analysis was undertaken using randomly amplified polymorphic DNAs (RAPDs) generated with three primers. Phenograms showing the similarity among the clo...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Pinto PM,Brito CF,Passos LK,Tendler M,Simpson AJ

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study, the Schistosoma mansoni Rho1 protein was able to complement Rho1 null mutant Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells at restrictive temperatures and under osmotic stress (low calcium concentration) better than the human homologue (RhoA). It is known that under osmotic stress, the S. cerevisiae Rho1 trigger...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Aguiar PH,Santos DN,Lobo FP,Santos TM,Macedo AM,Pena SD,Machado CR,Franco GR

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the rate of human papillomavirus (HPV) persistence, associated risk factors, and predictors of cytological alteration outcomes in a cohort of human immunodeficiency virus-infected pregnant women over an 18-month period. HPV was typed through L1 gene sequencing in cervical smears collected durin...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Meyrelles AR,Siqueira JD,Santos PP,Hofer CB,Luiz RR,Seuánez HN,Almeida G,Soares MA,Soares EA,Machado ES

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three Yersinia pestis strains isolated from humans and one laboratory strain (EV76) were grown in rich media at 28 degrees C and 37 degrees C and their outer membrane protein composition compared by sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). Several proteins with molecular weights ranging f...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Abath FG,de Almeida AM,Ferreira LC

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lymneid snail Lymnaea bogotensis Pilsbry 1935 is synonymized with L. cousini Jousseaume 1887, based on morphological comparisons of the reproductive systems. The shell, renal tube, and reproductive system are described and illustrated from specimens collected in the type locality and the municipality of Paipa, Col...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Velásquez LE

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tungiasis is a parasitic skin disease widespread in resource-poor urban and rural communities in Brazil. Inhabitants of an urban slum in Northeast Brazil were examined for the presence of tungiasis lesions and followed-up twice a week for a period of three weeks. Each time the number, stages, and topographic localizat...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Feldmeier H,Kehr JD,Poggensee G,Heukelbach J

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00