abstract：:We conducted the first meta-analysis of ten Schistosoma haematobium (one published and nine unpublished) and eight Schistosoma mansoni (two published and six unpublished) microsatellite datasets collected from individual schistosome-infected school-children across six sub-Saharan Africa countries. High levels of genet...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Gower CM,Gouvras AN,Lamberton PH,Deol A,Shrivastava J,Mutombo PN,Mbuh JV,Norton AJ,Webster BL,Stothard JR,Garba A,Lamine MS,Kariuki C,Lange CN,Mkoji GM,Kabatereine NB,Gabrielli AF,Rudge JW,Fenwick A,Sacko M,Dembel

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several DNA probes were designed for use in real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays to target sequence variation within the ribosomal intergenic spacer (IGS) of schistosomes. A sub-section of the IGS (∼300bp) was amplified, with cross-specific primers, after which group-specific fluorescent, locked nucleic ac...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Kane RA,Stothard JR,Rollinson D,Leclipteux T,Evraerts J,Standley CJ,Allan F,Betson M,Kaba R,Mertens P,Laurent T

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmaniasis, a zoonotic disease caused by parasites of the genus Leishmania, has expanded beyond its natural range and is becoming increasingly urban. Using PCR and PCR-RFLP, we detected Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis in two bats (Chiroptera) in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, an endemic area. This is the first recor...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Shapiro JT,da Costa Lima Junior MS,Dorval ME,de Oliveira França A,Cepa Matos Mde F,Bordignon MO

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Counter flow geometry (CFG) traps (American Biophysics) baited with foot odours (adsorbed overnight on a combination of a nylon and a cotton socks) from 4 groups of 4 male volunteers were initially used in a screen-house to compare and grade the attractiveness of Anopheles gambiae Giles sensu stricto to these odours. ...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Omolo MO,Njiru B,Ndiege IO,Musau RM,Hassanali A

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several approaches have been developed for diagnosis of Theileria equi infection in horses and donkeys but all of them have limitations in practice. Due to numerous strengths including easy operation, cheapness and high sensitivity and specificity, LAMP has been already extensively used for surveillance of a number of...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Xie J,Liu G,Tian Z,Luo J

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported that BmAFI, an anti-inflammatory fraction of Brugia malayi adult worm supports parasite development in the hostile peritoneal cavity (p.c.) of Mastomys coucha through a modified Th2 type of response that includes IL-13 and IgE response and anti-inflammatory IL-10 cytokine milieu. In the present st...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Joseph SK,Verma SK,Verma R,Saxena JK,Srivastava M,Murthy PK

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Essential oils (EOs) are potential tools for controlling Musca domestica L. In a fumigant assay, M. domestica adults treated with Citrus sinensis EO (LC50=3.9mg/dm(3)), with (4R)(+)-limonene (95.1%) being its main component, died within 15min or less. The terpenes absorbed by the flies and their metabolites, analyzed ...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Rossi YE,Palacios SM

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium falciparum transcripts contain long untranslated regions (UTR), with some of the longest in any eukaryote that uses monocistronic transcription. Owing to the extreme AT nucleotide bias within the intergenic regions that encode these UTR, attempts to characterise how they are apportioned over genes and to de...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Hasenkamp S,Russell K,Ullah I,Horrocks P

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Kato-Katz, conventional ethyl-acetate sedimentation, and Midi Parasep(®) methods for diagnosing infection with soil-transmitted helminths were compared. The Kato-Katz technique gave the best overall diagnostic performance with the highest results in all measures (prevalence, faecal egg count, sensitivity) followed...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Funk AL,Boisson S,Clasen T,Ensink JH

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate the seroprevalence of brucellosis and identify risk factors in exotic and cross bred cattle in Ethiopia. A total of 2334 cattle from 273 farms were tested serially for Brucella antibodies using the Rose Bengal Plate Test (RBPT) and the Compliment Fixation Test (CFT)...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Asmare K,Sibhat B,Molla W,Ayelet G,Shiferaw J,Martin AD,Skjerve E,Godfroid J

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Domestic dogs and cats are major domestic reservoir hosts of Trypanosoma cruzi and a risk factor for parasite transmission. In this study we assessed the relative performance of a polymerase chain reaction assay targeted to minicircle DNA (kDNA-PCR) in reference to conventional serological tests, a rapid dipstick test...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Enriquez GF,Cardinal MV,Orozco MM,Schijman AG,Gürtler RE

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the adulticide susceptibility and yearly changes of Anopheles maculipennis Meigen (Diptera: Culicidae) in Thrace, five mosquito populations were evaluated against the resistance status of four different adulticides. Three biochemical resistance mechanisms and yearly changes of activities were investigated....

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Akiner MM,Caglar SS,Simsek FM

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blastocystis is a common intestinal micro-eukaryote found in both humans and non-human hosts and known to be genetically very diverse. It has been divided into numerous subtypes (STs), nine of which have been identified in humans to date. Surveys of ST prevalence have started to emerge over the past few years but to d...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Alfellani MA,Stensvold CR,Vidal-Lapiedra A,Onuoha ES,Fagbenro-Beyioku AF,Clark CG

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In developing countries, smallholder poultry production contributes to food security and poverty alleviation in rural areas. However, traditional poultry marketing chains have been threatened by the epidemics caused by the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1) virus. The article presents a value chain analysis cond...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Paul M,Baritaux V,Wongnarkpet S,Poolkhet C,Thanapongtharm W,Roger F,Bonnet P,Ducrot C

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pangonius theodori a new horse fly species (Diptera: Tabanidae: Pangoniinae) from northern Israel and southern Lebanon is described. The zoogeography, habitat preference and taxonomic position within the genus of the new species is discussed in detail. ...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Zeegers T,Kravchenko VD,Müller GC

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Mizoram, the origin and molecular nature of Anopheles species is poorly understood, despite the region having high malarial incidence and rich biodiversity. A diagnostic PCR assay for distinguishing the Cellia subgenera members of Anopheles species was developed based on the interspecific ITS2 variation. No intrasp...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Zomuanpuii R,Ringngheti L,Brindha S,Gurusubramanian G,Senthil Kumar N

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2009, a survey was conducted in Reunion Island to determine the renal leptospiral load in black rats trapped in the field. The concentration of leptospires in kidney tissue was calculated using qPCR. Our results showed high inter-individual variations of renal bacterial load in naturally infected black rats (mean=8...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Desvars A,Michault A,Chiroleu F

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria in pregnancy is associated with increased risks of maternal anemia, spontaneous abortion, low birth weight, premature delivery and other adverse effects on health. In Brazil, disease transmission is highly concentrated in the multi-state region that constitutes the Brazilian Amazon (more than 99% of all cases)...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Luz TC,Suárez-Mutis MC,Miranda ES,Moritz AF,Freitas LF,Brasil Jde C,Osorio-de-Castro CG

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since humans rarely play the role as Echinococcus oligarthrus host, there is lack of knowledge about the complex infectious process. Only three cases have been reported to occur in humans in the neotropics until now. We present the anatomo-clinical and molecular findings describing a new case of infection by E. oligar...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Soares Mdo C,Rodrigues AL,Moreira Silva CA,Brito EM,Gomes-Gouvêa MS,Corrêa IR,Pinho JR,Malheiros AP,Nunes HM,Póvoa MM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosomiasis remains a serious worldwide public health problem. Improving the diagnostic assay for surveillance and monitoring will contribute to hastening the possible elimination of the disease in endemic regions. Therefore, this study aims to develop magnetic affinity enzyme-linked immunoassay (MEIA) for serolog...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Yu Q,Yang H,Feng Y,Yang X,Zhu Y

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine the presence of Trypanosoma cruzi in blood samples of mothers with chronic Chagas disease and their newborn by conventional PCR targeted to minicircle kinetoplastidic DNA (kDNA), and to determine the lineages in mother/newborn pairs of the congenital cases by hybridization ...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Ortiz S,Zulantay I,Solari A,Bisio M,Schijman A,Carlier Y,Apt W

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease that occurs all over the world, caused by bacteria of the genus Leptospira. Marsupial and didelphidae families are considered susceptible to infection caused by a wide range of Leptospira serovars for which they serve as reservoirs. Thirty-three free-living white-eared opossums (Did...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Jorge S,Hartleben CP,Seixas FK,Coimbra MA,Stark CB,Larrondo AG,Amaral MG,Albano AP,Minello LF,Dellagostin OA,Brod CS

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Onchocerca volvulus is a human pathogenic filarial nematode causing chronic onchocerciasis, a disease characterized by chronic skin and eye lesions. Despite attempts to control this infection from many perspectives, it still remains a threat to public health because of adverse effects of available drugs and recent rep...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Ajonina-Ekoti I,Ndjonka D,Tanyi MK,Wilbertz M,Younis AE,Boursou D,Kurosinski MA,Eberle R,Lüersen K,Perbandt M,Breloer M,Brattig NW,Liebau E

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to develop transfersomal formulation with respect to dermal delivery of paromomycin sulfate (PM) for possible topical therapy of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL). PM transfersomal formulations (PMTFs) with different percent of soy phosphatidylcholine, sodium cholate (Na-Ch) and ethanol were prepa...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Bavarsad N,Fazly Bazzaz BS,Khamesipour A,Jaafari MR

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diarrheal diseases represent a tremendous health burden in low-resource countries affecting child mortality. The main sources of diarrheal diseases are water source contamination and fecal-oral transmission. A major obstacle in disease control is the ability to identify and monitor water source quality for potential i...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Chang K,Greeley C

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies elucidate conflicting results about the relationships between ABO blood groups and Plasmodium infection outcomes in humans. This study examined association between ABO blood group and Plasmodium falciparum (P. falciparum) malaria related outcomes among 1065 malaria suspected febrile patients who attended Dore ...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Degarege A,Medhin G,Animut A,Legess M,Erko B

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last decade Entamoeba moshkovskii has become relevant given its capacity to infect humans, especially when considering that it is morphologically indistinguishable from E. histolytica. For a long time, E. moshkovskii was considered as a free living amoeba, but in the last decade it has been demonstrated tha...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Heredia RD,Fonseca JA,López MC

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Argentina, American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ACL) extends up to 29°S in the phytogeographic regions of the Yungas (west), Chaco (center) and Paranaense (east). Since the Phlebotominae vectors of this disease in the western Chaco (dry Chaco) are unknown, in the present work, we studied the natural infection in Phleb...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Rosa J,Pereira DP,Brazil RP,Filho JD,Salomón O,Szelag E

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several methods based on the detection of the parasite-specific pigment haemozoin (Hz) in blood are currently being investigated as alternative diagnostic methods for malaria. Although this approach may appear attractive, the fact that in Plasmodium falciparum (P. f.) malaria, the severity of which should give it the ...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Rebelo M,Shapiro HM,Amaral T,Melo-Cristino J,Hänscheid T

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Leishmania major is endemic in parts of the Sinai of Egypt, the ecology and distribution of Leishmania sand fly vectors in southern Sinai has not been well characterized. Accordingly, additional sand fly samples were obtained at 41 sites in the southern Sinai region during 1996-1997, and analyzed to improve t...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Kassem HA,Siri J,Kamal HA,Wilson ML

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidences have demonstrated the importance of Th17 cells in host defense against infectious diseases. However, little is known about their role in parasitic infections. Here, we showed that uncomplicated acute vivax malaria induce a significant expansion of IL-17-producing CD4(+) T cells associated to a pro-inf...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Bueno LL,Morais CG,Lacerda MV,Fujiwara RT,Braga EM

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) is a novel molecular method that accelerates and facilitates DNA amplification and detection under isothermal conditions. It represents a revolution in molecular biology by reducing the high cost, turnaround time and technicality of polymerase chain reaction and other ampl...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Abdul-Ghani R,Al-Mekhlafi AM,Karanis P

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anopheles philippinensis-nivipes species of mosquitoes are considered secondary malaria vectors in the north-east India. However, difficulty in separating An. philippinensis and An. nivipes accurately on the basis of morphological identification, due to the overlapping female wing characters, has led to the paucity of...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Sarma NP,Prakash A,Bhattacharyya DR,Kalita MC,Mohapatra PK,Singh S,Sarma DK,Mahanta J

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 30-kDa surface collagen binding protein peroxiredoxin of Entamoeba histolytica (EhCBP30) was evaluated either alone or fused to the chaperone (CHP) or ATPase (ATP) domains of heat shock protein 70 of Trypanosoma cruzi (TcHSP70) as a vaccine candidate in a hamster model of experimental amoebic liver abscess (ALA) dev...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： González-Vázquez MC,Carabarin-Lima A,Baylón-Pacheco L,Talamás-Rohana P,Rosales-Encina JL

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 20-year survey we routinely collected Tabanidae in the Sinai resulting in a checklist of 22 species. We recorded 2 species for the Levant (Tabanus mordax Austen, 1911 and Tabanus gratus Loew, 1858), 4 species for Egypt (Nemorius irritans (Ricardo, 1901), Chrysops flavipes Meigen, 1804, Haematopota coronata Au...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Müller GC,Revay EE,Hogsette JA,Zeegers T,Kline D,Kravchenko VD,Schlein Y

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flight dispersion is recognized as one of the most important mechanisms for triatomine house infestation. Triatoma sherlocki and T. juazeirensis are closely related species that occur within the same ecotope and their possible reproductive boundaries are unknown. T. sherlocki has shorter wings than T. juazeirensis; a ...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Almeida CE,Oliveira HL,Correia N,Dornak LL,Gumiel M,Neiva VL,Harry M,Mendonça VJ,Costa J,Galvão C

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swine influenza is responsible for one of the most prevalent disease affecting the swine industry worldwide. Epidemiological surveys rarely focus on remote areas, because traditional farming systems characterized by locally consumed production and low pig densities are considered as having little influence on the emer...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Trevennec K,Grosbois V,Roger F,Ho TH,Berthouly-Salazar C,Chevalier V

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entomopathogenic fungi, especially Metarhizium anisopliae, have potential for integrated control of peridomestic triatomine bugs. However, the high susceptibility of these vectors to fungal infection at elevated ambient humidities decreases in the comparatively dry conditions that often prevail in their microhabitats....

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Luz C,Rodrigues J,Rocha LF

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of toxic component of leaf litter in mediating the outcome of mosquito species interactions is not well documented. To examine the effect of leaf litter toxins on mosquito performance and interspecific interactions, we reared monospecific and heterospecific cultures of Aedes aegypti L. and Aedes albopictus Sk...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Kim CH,Muturi EJ

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The last decade has seen an increase in investment and concerted efforts by the Malawi Ministry of Health and partners to control malaria disease. This report summarizes what is known about the burden of malaria and the strategies being implemented to control it in Malawi. Over the past 5 years, roll out of treatment ...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Mathanga DP,Walker ED,Wilson ML,Ali D,Taylor TE,Laufer MK

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00