Resistance of Musca domestica L. populations to cyromazine (insect growth regulator) in Brazil.

abstract：:A one year-long study (March 1979-March 1980) was carried out at San Esteban, an endemic focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Northern Venezuela, with the aim of observing the seasonal fluctuation of the local phlebotomine sandflies species. The influence of climatic factors (temperature, relative humidity and rainfall...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Feliciangeli MD

更新日期：1987-04-01 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：:The protective effect of infectious agents against allergic reactions has been thoroughly investigated. Current studies have demonstrated the ability of some helminths to modulate the immune response of infected hosts. The objective of the present study was to investigate the relationship between Toxocara canis infect...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Zaia MG,Oliveira SR,Castro CA,Soares EG,Afonso A,Monnazzi LG,Peitl Filho O,Faccioli LH,Anibal Fde F

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis to isoniazid (INH) is caused by mutations in the catalase-peroxidase gene (katG), and within the inhA promoter and/or in structural gene. A small percentage (approximately 10%) of INH-resistant strains do not present mutations in both of these loci. Other genes have been associ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Cardoso RF,Cardoso MA,Leite CQ,Sato DN,Mamizuka EM,Hirata RD,de Mello FF,Hirata MH

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To analyze whether electrocardiographic alterations (ECGA) in patients with antibodies to Trypanosoma cruzi showed a pattern of familial aggregation, a sample of 379 young adults (166 men and 213 women) distributed in sibships, were assessed for the presence of anti-T. cruzi antibodies, and subjected to a complete cli...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Morini JC,Berra H,Dávila HO,Pividori JF,Bottasso OA

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Brazil, until 2004, the immunization policy against diphtheria involved childhood vaccination with no official routine booster dose administered after 15 years of age. This study assessed functional antibody levels against diphtheria among blood donors. A total of 140 blood samples were collected, and diphtheria an...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Pimenta FP,Damasco PV,Cerbino Neto J,Lopes GS,Hirata R Jr,Milagres LG,Mattos-Guaraldi AL

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dissection of Lutzomyia longipalpis, captured in the São Luis focus of visceral Leishmaniasis revealed a 1.8% promastigote infection rate. ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Ryan L,Brazil RP

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a simple method for detection of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum infection in anophelines using a triplex TaqMan real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay (18S rRNA). We tested the assay on Anopheles darlingi and Anopheles stephensi colony mosquitoes fed with Plasmodium-infected blood meal...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Bickersmith SA,Lainhart W,Moreno M,Chu VM,Vinetz JM,Conn JE

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although vaccines are the best means of protection against influenza, neuraminidase inhibitors are currently the main antiviral treatment available to control severe influenza cases. One of the most frequent substitutions in the neuraminidase (NA) protein of influenza A(H3N2) viruses during or soon after oseltamivir a...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Pontoriero A,Avaro M,Benedetti E,Russo M,Czech A,Periolo N,Campos A,Zamora A,Baumeister E

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphatic filariasis caused by nematode parasites Wuchereria bancrofti or Brugia malayi is a spectral disease and produces wide range of immune responses and varying levels of microfilaraemia in infected individuals. The relationship between the immune response of host and the developmental stage of the parasite as we...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Athisaya Mary K,Hoti S,Paily K

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron is essential for all organisms and its availability can control the growth of microorganisms; therefore, we examined the role of iron metabolism in multibacillary (MB) leprosy, focusing on the involvement of hepcidin. Erythrograms, iron metabolism parameters, pro-inflammatory cytokines and urinary hepcidin levels...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Souza VN,Malaspina TS,Campanelli AP,Ghidella C,Ura S,Dalpino D,do Nascimento DC,Latini AC

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present paper, we announce new draft genomes of four Leptospira interrogans strains named Acegua, RCA, Prea, and Capivara. These strains were isolated in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, from cattle, dog, Brazilian guinea pig, and capybara, respectively. ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Kremer FS,Eslabão MR,Jorge S,Oliveira NR,Labonde J,Santos MN,Monte LG,Grassmann AA,Cunha CE,Forster KM,Moreno LZ,Moreno AM,Campos VF,McBride AJ,Pinto LS,Dellagostin OA

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：:Results of studies on a larvicidal cyanobacterium that expresses a Bti cryIVD gene fusion are reported. Genetically altered Agmenellum quadruplicatum PR-6 is shown to be toxic to larvae of three major genera of disease-bearing mosquitos. Factors affecting expression of Bti genes in cyanobacteria are discussed. ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Murphy RC,Stevens SE Jr

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catadiscus pomaceae sp. n. from the intestine of the prosobranch mollusc Pomacea canaliculata (Lamarck, 1801), is described. The host snail was collected from a lenitic biotope belonging to the Riachuelo basin (Corrientes province, Argentina) during 1985-1986. So far the species of the genus Catadiscus Cohn, 1904 have...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Hamann MI

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early Cretaceous flagellates with characters typical of trypanosomatids were found in the gut of sand fly larvae, as well as in surrounding debris, in Burmese amber. This discovery supports a hypothesis in which free-living trypanosomatids could have been acquired by sand fly larvae in their feeding environment and th...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Poinar G Jr

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A semiarid area of northwest Costa Rica where Lutzomyia longipalpis is common in corrals around houses is described. Monthly captures of the sandfly during two consecutive years for fixed periods of time indicated that the insect bites avidly cows, horses, pigs, dogs and humans. From a total of 14,215 specimens, 90.5%...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Zeledón R,Murillo J,Gutierrez H

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase (alpha-GPDH) activity in flight muscles of Panstrongylus megistus and Triatoma sordida, vectors of Chagas disease in Brazil, was studied. Both species showed higher enzymatic activities in fliers than in non-fliers insects. T. sordida exhibited a higher proportion of flier inse...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Soares RP,Santoro MM

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on natural infection by Leishmania spp of sandflies collected in endemic and nonendemic areas can provide important information on the distribution and intensity of the transmission of these parasites. This study sought to investigate the natural infection by Leishmaniain wild female sandflies. The specimens w...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Oliveira EF,Casaril AE,Mateus NL,Murat PG,Fernandes WS,Oshiro ET,Oliveira AG,Galati EA

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four cross sectional studies on morbidity of schistosomiasis mansoni were carried out respectively in 1973, 1974, 1979 and 1983 in the Village of Capitão Andrade, District of Itanhomi, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, through clinical and fecal examination of the population. In addition a comparison was made of the dina...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Coura JR,Conceição MJ,Pereira JB

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preparations of simian rotavirus SA11 maintained in different laboratories were compared with each other by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of genomic RNA. Differences in the migration of genome segments 4, 5 and 7 allowed the classification of eight virus preparations into four electrophoretic types. ...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Pereira HG,Gouvea VS,Fialho AM

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chagas cardiomyopathy is the most frequent and most severe manifestation of chronic Chagas disease, and is one of the leading causes of morbidity and death in Latin America. Although the pathogenesis of Chagas cardiomyopathy is incompletely understood, it may involve several mechanisms, including parasite-dependent my...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Rassi A Jr,Marin JA Neto,Rassi A

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A longitudinal study was conducted in Manaus, Brazil, to monitor changes of adult Aedes aegypti (L.) abundance. The objectives were to compare mosquito collections of two trap types, to characterise temporal changes of the mosquito population, to investigate the influence of meteorological variables on mosquito collec...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Degener CM,Ázara TM,Roque RA,Codeço CT,Nobre AA,Ohly JJ,Geier M,Eiras ÁE

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii has a very wide intermediate host range and is thought to be able to infect all warm blooded animals. The parasite causes a spectrum of different diseases and clinical symptoms within the intermediate hosts and following infection most animals develop adaptive humoral and cell-mediated immune respons...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Innes EA,Bartley PM,Maley S,Katzer F,Buxton D

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:A 19-month mark-release-recapture study of Neotoma micropus with sequential screening for Leishmania mexicana was conducted in Bexar County, Texas, USA. The overall prevalence rate was 14.7% and the seasonal prevalence rates ranged from 3.8 to 26.7%. Nine incident cases were detected, giving an incidence rate of 15.5/...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Raymond RW,McHugh CP,Witt LR,Kerr SF

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phlebotomine sand flies Nyssomyia intermedia (Lutz & Neiva, 1912) and Nyssomyia neivai (Pinto, 1926) are very close and may be involved in the transmission of Leishmania spp. Ross, 1903 in Brazil. The biology of the first laboratory-reared generations of these species, descended from insects captured in Além Paraí...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Andrade Filho JD,Galati EA,Falcão AL

更新日期：2004-10-01 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：:The high sensitivity and the possibility of automation of the enzyme-linked-immunosorbent-assay (ELISA) has indicated this technique as one of the most useful serological test for epidemiological studies. In the present study, an ELISA for detection of IgG antibodies against adult worm antigens (IgG-ELISA) was investi...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： da Silva RM,Kanamura HY,Camargo ED,Chiodelli SG,Nakamura PM,Gargioni C,Vellosa SA,Antunes JL

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A list of 41 Apoidea (Hymenoptera) type specimens deposited in the Entomological Collection of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil is presented. The types previously belonged to the Zikán and Schrottky private collections. A total of 11 holotypes and 30 paratypes are listed with their respective dat...

journal_title：Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

authors： Ferraz MV

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00