Ultrasound monitoring of structural urinary tract disease in Schistosoma haematobium infection.

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：:In order to determine the best type of rabies vaccine to use as a booster, 78 serological samples from singly vaccinated cattle were analyzed by counterimmunoelectrophoresis technique. The animals were divided into several groups, received the first vaccine dose with modified live virus vaccine (ERA strain) and were r...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Oliveira AN,Andrade MC,Silva MV,Moura WC,Cortez Contreiras E

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major goal in the treatment of acute ischemia of a vascular territory is to restore blood flow to normal values, i.e. to "reperfuse" the ischemic vascular bed. However, reperfusion of ischemic tissues is associated with local and systemic leukocyte activation and trafficking, endothelial barrier dysfunction in postc...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Souza DG,Teixeira MM

更新日期：2005-03-01 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：:Scientists have increasingly recognised that low methodological and analytical rigour combined with publish-or-perish incentives can make the published scientific literature unreliable. As a response to this, large-scale systematic replications of the literature have emerged as a way to assess the problem empirically....

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Neves K,Carneiro CF,Wasilewska-Sampaio AP,Abreu M,Valério-Gomes B,Tan PB,Amaral OB

更新日期：2020-10-23 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：: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：: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：:Sixteen species of ectoparasites were collected from 50 wild rodents, from August 1990 to August 1991, in an area of Araucaria augustifolia forest, in the municipality of Tijucas do Sul, State of Paraná, Brazil. Ectoparasites infested 98% of the rodents, with the highest indices of infestation found in the drycool sea...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Barros-Battesti DM,Arzua M,Linardi PM,Botelho JR,Sbalqueiro IJ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscina stabulans, M. domestica, Chrysomya putoria, C. megacephala and Stomoxys calcitrans were the most abundant muscoid flies captured in a poultry facility in southeastern Brazil. We examined the gonadotrophic profiles of the females caught at different sites and different times and found that Mu. stabulans and M. ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Avancini RM,Silveira GA

更新日期：2000-03-01 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：: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：:Feline coprolites were examined for parasites with the aim of studying ancient infections that occurred in the Patagonian region during the Holocene period. Eggs compatible to Trichuris sp., Calodium sp., Eucoleus sp., Nematodirus sp., Oesophagostomum sp. (Nematoda), Monoecocestus sp. (Cestoda) and Eimeria macusaniens...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Fugassa MH,Beltrame MO,Bayer MS,Sardella NH

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells die through a programmed process or accidental death, know as apoptosis or necrosis, respectively. Bothrops jararaca is a snake whose venom inhibits the growth of Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigote forms causing mitochondrion swelling and cell death. The aim of the present work was to determine the type of death ind...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Deolindo P,Teixeira-Ferreira AS,Melo EJ,Arnholdt AC,Souza Wd,Alves EW,DaMatta RA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe and compare the morphological and ultrastructural characteristics of eggs from the three most recent described species of the genus Rhodnius Stål, 1859, which have not previously been studied. These species are Rhodnius colombiensis (Mejia, Galvão & Jurberg 1999), Rhodnius milesi (Carcavallo, Roch...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Santos CM,Jurberg J,Galvão C,Rosa JA,Júnior WC,Barata JM,Obara MT

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania braziliensis is the etiological agent of American mucosal leishmaniasis, one of the most severe clinical forms of leishmaniasis. Here, we report the assembly of the L. braziliensis (M2904) genome into 35 continuous chromosomes. Also, the annotation of 8395 genes is provided. The public availability of this ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： González-de la Fuente S,Camacho E,Peiró-Pastor R,Rastrojo A,Carrasco-Ramiro F,Aguado B,Requena JM

更新日期：2018-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Integration of human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA into human cells accompanied by the disruption of the viral genome has been described as a prerequisite for cancer development. This study aimed to investigate E2 gene integrity of HPV16 and HPV58 viruses isolated from infected women with cervical lesions. Forty-two HPV16-...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： González-Losa MD,Puerto-Solis M,Tenorio Ruiz J,Rosado-López AI,Hau-Aviles O,Ayora-Talavera G,Cisneros-Cutz I,Conde-Ferráez L

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Saimiri monkey, an experimental host for human malaria, acquired protection against Plasmodium falciparum blood stages depends on the IgG antibody populations developed. In vivo protective anti-falciparum activity of IgG antibodies is correlated with the in vitro opsonizing activity promoting phagocytosis of pa...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Gysin J

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article doi: 10.1590/0074-02760180073]. ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors：

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sand fly identification is complex because it depends on the expertise of the taxonomist. The females show subtle morphological differences and the occurrence of the species complexes are usual in this taxon. Therefore, a fragment of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene is used for taxon barcoding to resolve ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Laurito M,Ontivero IM,Almirón WR

更新日期：2019-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-four marsupials, 77 rodents and 161 ticks were captured in an Atlantic Forest Reserve in Cotia county, State of São Paulo, where human cases of Lyme disease (LD) simile were reported. Twenty-one borrelia-like spirochete isolates were recovered from the mammals' blood and rodent livers or spleens, and triturated ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Abel IS,Marzagão G,Yoshinari NH,Schumaker TT

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus sphaericus produces at least two toxins which are highly toxic to mosquito larvae. The binary toxin, which is comprised of proteins of 51.4 and 41.9 kDa, is present in all highly insecticidal strains. The 100 kDa SSII-1 toxin is present in most highly insecticidal as well as the weakly insecticidal strains. T...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Davidson EW

更新日期：1995-01-01 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 aims of this study were to characterise the ground-level larval habitats of the mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus, to determine the relationships between habitat characteristics and larval abundance and to examine seasonal larval-stage variations in Córdoba city. Every two weeks for two years, 15 larval habitats (na...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Grech M,Sartor P,Estallo E,Ludueña-Almeida F,Almirón W

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) were infected subcutaneously with 1.0 x 10(4) to 1.5 x 10(4) metacyclic trypomastigotes of Trypanosoma cruzi (Colombian strain). Parasitological and immunological parameters were evaluated in these animals for periods of 1 month to over 3 years. A chagoma was observed between the 3rd an...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Bonecini-Almeida Mda G,Galvão-Castro B,Pessoa MH,Pirmez C,Laranja F

更新日期：1990-04-01 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：:This study examined whether the antidermatophytic activity of essential oils (EOs) can be used as an indicator for the discovery of active natural products against Leishmania amazonensis. The aerial parts of seven plants were hydrodistilled. Using broth microdilution techniques, the obtained EOs were tested against th...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Houël E,Gonzalez G,Bessière JM,Odonne G,Eparvier V,Deharo E,Stien D

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：: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：: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