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Risk factors associated with the transmissionof Brazilian spotted fever in the Piracicaba river basin, State of São Paulo, Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2015
INTRODUCTION : Brazilian spotted fever (BSF) is a disease transmitted by ticks for which the etiological agent is Rickettsia rickettsii. The present essay evaluates the risk factors associated with the transmission of cases of BSF in the time period ...
Celso Eduardo de Souza, Adriano Pinter, Maria Rita Donalisio   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

European Network for Neglected Vectors and Vector-Borne Infections COST Action Guidelines: What Is This About and What Is This For? [PDF]

, 2017
European network for neglected vectors and vector-borne infections COST action guidelines: What Is this about and what iIs this ...
Charrel, Remi N., Lempereur, Laetitia, Mihalca, Andrei D., Vayssier-Taussat, Muriel   +3 more
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Socioeconomic Account of Reading Abilities in Learning Chinese as a First Language and English as a Second Language

Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 425-453, June 2026.
Abstract The study examined the mediation model of socioeconomic status (SES) and executive function (EF) on reading abilities in Chinese (as first language, L1) and English (as second language, L2) in 260 native Cantonese‐speaking students (146 boys) from Hong Kong local primary schools with the mean age at 111.3 months (range = 98–132 months).
Dan Lin, Jinghan Liang, Xiuhong Tong, Susanna Siu‐Sze Yeung, Phil Duo Liu, Him Cheung   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characterization of rickettsia rickettsii in a case of Fatal Brazilian spotted fever in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
A lethal case of Brazilian spotted fever (BSF) is presented. Clinical features were initially of gastrointestinal involvement and evolved with progression to septic shock, meningoencephalitis and death on the 6th day of illness.
Cristiane Lamas, Alexsandra Favacho, Tatiana Rozental, Márcio N. Bóia, Andrei H. Kirsten, Alexandro Guterres, Jairo Barreira, Elba Regina S. de Lemos   +7 more
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Importância dos carrapatos na transmissão da febre maculosa brasileira. [PDF]

, 2012
Introdução. Agente etiológico. Principal vetor no Brasil. Outras espécies de carrapatos de importância. Animais amplificadores. Epidemiologia. Manifestações clínicas. Diagnóstico. Tratamento.
ALMEIDA, R. F. C. de, ANDREOTTI, R., CUNHA, R. C., GARCIA, M. V., MATIAS, J.   +4 more
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Microsatellite Genotyping of Plasmodium vivax Isolates from Pregnant Women in Four Malaria Endemic Countries [PDF]

, 2016
Plasmodium vivax is the most widely distributed human parasite and the main cause of human malaria outside the African continent. However, the knowledge about the genetic variability of P.
Arévalo-Herrera, Myriam, Bardají, Azucena, Betuela, Inoni, Botto Menezes, Camila, Castellanos, Maria Eugenia, Chitnis, Chetan E., Desai, Meghna, Hans, Dhiraj, Jaju, Puneet, Kochar, Sanjay K., Kochar, Swati, Martínez Espinosa, Flor E., Mayor Aparicio, Alfredo Gabriel, Menegon, Michela, Menéndez, Clara, Mueller, Ivo, Ome-Kaius, Maria, Ortiz, Lucia, Padilla, Norma, Piqueras, Mireia, Portillo Obando, Hernando A. del, Sanz, Sergi, Severini, Carlo   +22 more
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Brain Involvement in Leishmaniasis

Cell Biochemistry and Function, Volume 44, Issue 4, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by infection with the protozoan parasite Leishmania and it is a significant global health problem. The disease has a wide clinical spectrum, from tegumentary leishmaniasis (TL) that encompasses cutaneous (CL), mucosal (ML) and cutaneous‐diffuse (CDL) forms, to the potentially fatal systemic ...
Camila S. Freitas, Eduardo A. F. Coelho, Myron Christodoulides   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Complementary data on four methods for sampling free-living ticks in the Brazilian Pantanal. [PDF]

, 2017
In this study, four methods for sampling free-living ticks that are used in ecological and human tick-bite risk studies were evaluated. Cloth dragging, carbon dioxide traps and visual searches and inspection of plant litter on the ground were used in ...
OSAVA, C. F., PIOVEZAN, U., RAMOS, V. do N., SZABÓ, M. P. J.   +3 more
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A Beginner's How‐To Guide to Urban Population Genetics and Genomics

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 4, April 2026.
This guide provides practical methodologies for studying how urbanization drives evolutionary and ecological changes in species through population genetics and genomics, covering genetic markers, analytical tools, and spatial modeling approaches.
Elizabeth J. Carlen, Lindsay S. Miles, Kevin Aviles‐Rodriguez, Warren Booth   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of bacterial diversity in the cattle tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus through tag-encoded pyrosequencing [PDF]

, 2011
Background Ticks are regarded as the most relevant vectors of disease-causing pathogens in domestic and wild animals. The cattle tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, hinders livestock production in tropical and subtropical parts of the ...
Adalberto A Pérez de León, Felix D Guerrero, Glen A Scoles, Kylie G Bendele, Renato Andreotti, Scot E Dowd   +5 more
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