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A FATAL PULMONARY INFECTION BY NOCARDIA BRASILIENSIS [PDF]

Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2006
The reported case is of primary pulmonary nocardiosis, caused by Nocardia brasiliensis, in a immunocompromised patient, which ended fatally despite appropriate treatment. The partially acid fast filamentous bacterium was predominant on direct examination of the sputum. It was cultured on blood agar, MacConkey agar and by paraffin baiting technique. The
V. Wadhwa, S. Rai, P. Kharbanda, S. Kabra, R. Gur, V. K. Sharma   +5 more
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Revisiting the Hybridization Processes in the Triatoma brasiliensis Complex (Hemiptera, Triatominae): Reproductive Isolation between Triatoma petrocchiae and T. b. brasiliensis and T. lenti

Insects, 2021
Triatoma petrocchiae is a species morphologically similar to T. b. brasiliensis (which resulted in a synonymization event); despite this similarity, genetic, morphological, and experimental crossbreeding studies confirmed the specific status of T ...
Luiza Maria Grzyb Delgado, Jader de Oliveira, Amanda Ravazi, Fernanda Fernandez Madeira, Yago Visinho dos Reis, Heloisa Pinotti, Ana Beatriz Bortolozo de Oliveira, Isabella da Silva Masarin, Maurício Lilioso, Elaine Folly-Ramos, Cleber Galvão, Maria Tercília Vilela de Azeredo-Oliveira, João Aristeu da Rosa, Kaio Cesar Chaboli Alevi   +13 more
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Experimental Infection of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) with SARS-CoV-2

Msphere, 2023
As the COVID-19 pandemic has continued for 3+ years, there has been increasing concern that the SARS-CoV-2 virus will enter wildlife populations and potentially create new reservoirs where the virus could adapt to a new host and create variants.
Jeffrey S. Hall, E. Hofmeister, H. Ip, S. Nashold, Ariel E. Leon, Carly M Malavé, Elizabeth A Falendysz, T. Rocke, M. Carossino, U. Balasuriya, S. Knowles   +10 more
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Sporothrix brasiliensis: A Review of an Emerging South American Fungal Pathogen, Its Related Disease, Presentation and Spread in Argentina

Journal of Fungi, 2021
Sporotrichosis, caused by Sporothrix schenckii and related species, is the most frequent implantation mycosis in Latin America. In Argentina, over the last 8 years, there have been 0.16 new cases per month of feline sporotrichosis in 2011, increasing to ...
A. Etchecopaz, M. A. Toscanini, Amelia Gisbert, J. Más, Miguel Scarpa, C. Iovannitti, Karla Bendezú, A. Nusblat, R. Iachini, M. Cuestas   +9 more
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The first three reported cases of Sporothrix brasiliensis cat-transmitted sporotrichosis outside South America

Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2022
An epidemic of cat-transmitted sporotrichosis caused by Sporothrix brasiliensis has emerged as a major public health threat in Brazil in recent decades.
J. Barnacle, Y. Chow, A. Borman, Steve Wyllie, V. Domínguez, K. Russell, H. Roberts, D. Armstrong-James, A. Whittington   +8 more
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First records of adventive populations of the parasitoids Ganaspis brasiliensis and Leptopilina japonica in the United States

Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 2022
We report the first known incidence of two parasitoid species of the invasive pest, Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) (Diptera: Drosophilidae), in the United States (US).
E. Beers, Dylan J. Beal, Peter Smytheman, P. Abram, R. Schmidt-Jeffris, Erica Moretti, K. Daane, Christopher P. Looney, C. Lue, M. Buffington   +9 more
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Differential recognition and cytokine induction by the peptidorhamnomannan from Sporothrix brasiliensis and S. schenckii

bioRxiv, 2022
Sporotrichosis is a deep mycosis caused by dimorphic species of the genus Sporothrix, with differences in pathogenicity between S. schenckii and S. brasiliensis species.
Brenda Kischkel, L. Lopes-Bezerra, C. Taborda, L. Joosten, J. C. Dos Santos, M. Netea   +5 more
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A Centennial: Discovery of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis [PDF]

Mycopathologia, 2008
The year 2008 is the centennial of the discovery ofparacoccidioidomycosis and its fungal etiology by thedistinguished Brazilian researcher Adolpho Lutz [1].Subsequent studies by many dedicated Brazilian andother Latin American investigators have led to theformal recognition of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis asa taxonomically valid entity, which is ...
de Almeida Soares, Celia Maria, Mendes-Giannini, Maria José Soares, Soares Felipe, Maria Sueli, Chaturvedi, Vishnu   +3 more
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Tattooing as a gateway to Sporothrix brasiliensis infection

Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2022
Recently, sporotrichosis caused by Sporothrix brasiliensis transmitted during tattooing process was described in the epicenter of the Brazilian epidemic sporotrichosis. We report a similar case of this mycosis in a patient recently tattooed, but probably infected by a sick cat instead of via a contaminated procedure.
Vanice Rodrigues Poester, Cecília Bittencourt Severo, Camila Almeida Estácio da Silva, David A. Stevens, Mariana Rodrigues Trápaga, Melissa Orzechowski Xavier   +5 more
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Treatment of Human Sporotrichosis Caused by Sporothrix brasiliensis

Journal of Fungi, 2022
We describe the successful treatment of a series of 30 zoonotic sporotrichosis cases from southern Brazil. Sporothrix brasiliensis was the species genotypically identified in all 25 confirmed cases.
V. Poester, R. Basso, David A. Stevens, L. Munhoz, Vanessa Brito de Souza Rabello, R. Almeida-Paes, R. Zancopé-Oliveira, Mariza Zanchi, J. Benelli, M. Xavier   +9 more
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