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Development of conventional and real-time multiplex PCR-based assays for estimation of natural infection rates and Trypanosoma cruzi load in triatomine vectors

Parasites & Vectors, 2017
Background Chagas disease is a complex anthropozoonosis with distinct domestic and sylvatic mammal species acting as potential reservoirs. The diversity of vector species and their habitats are among the factors that hinder the control of the disease ...
Otacilio C. Moreira, Thaiane Verly, Paula Finamore-Araujo, Suzete A. O. Gomes, Catarina M. Lopes, Danielle M. de Sousa, Lívia R. Azevedo, Fabio F. da Mota, Claudia M. d’Avila-Levy, Jacenir R. Santos-Mallet, Constança Britto   +10 more
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Principais ameaças sanitárias endêmicas da cadeia produtiva de suínos no Brasil [PDF]

Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 2016
Resumo: O Brasil se destaca por ser o quarto maior produtor e exportador de carne suína. A ocorrência de determinadas doenças na produção animal é um dos fatores mais importantes para a suinocultura.
Janice Reis Ciacci Zanella, Nelson Morés, David Emilio Santos Neves de Barcellos   +2 more
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Novel Insights Into Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis In Vitro Fitness Guided by Temperature Changes Along With Its Subtilisins and Oligopeptidase B

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2022
Proteases are virulence factors with a recognized impact on the Leishmania spp. life cycle. This study considers a set of analyses measuring phenotypic factors of L.
Anabel Zabala-Peñafiel, Lea Cysne-Finkelstein, Fatima Conceição-Silva, Aline Fagundes, Luciana de Freitas Campos Miranda, Franklin Souza-Silva, Franklin Souza-Silva, Artur A. M. L. Brandt, Artur A. M. L. Brandt, Geovane Dias-Lopes, Carlos Roberto Alves   +10 more
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Anti rickettsia-antibody for spotted fever group in horses and dogs in the North of Paraná Stated, Brazil [PDF]

, 2010
The Brazilian Spotted Fever (BSF) is a zoonosis that can be fatal if not trteated. As there are few studies of the BSF in the Paraná State, the occurrence of BSF was serologically investigated in dogs and horses by indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA),
GALHARDO, J.A., LABRUNA, M.B., OTOMURA, F.H., PACHECO, R.C., RIBEIRO, M.G., SANGIONI, L.A., TEODORO, U.   +6 more
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Sand fly fauna (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) in an area of leishmaniasis transmission in the municipality of Rio Branco, state of Acre, Brazil

Parasites & Vectors, 2014
Background Notifications concerning American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis have increased in recent years in the state of Acre, Brazil. Despite identification of distinct Leishmania species isolated from cutaneous lesions, there are still no records of ...
Thais Araujo-Pereira, Andressa A Fuzari, José Dilermado Andrade Filho, Daniela Pita-Pereira, Constança Britto, Reginaldo P Brazil   +5 more
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High correlation between Chagas' disease serology and PCR-based detection of Trypanosoma cruzi kinetoplast DNA in bolivian children living in an endemic area [PDF]

, 1994
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Bosseno, Marie-France, Brenière, Simone Frédérique, Britto, C., Cardoso, M.A., Morel, C.M., Wincker, P., Yaksic, N.   +6 more
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Nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase1 (TcNTPDase-1) gene expression is increased due to heat shock and in infective forms of Trypanosoma cruzi

Parasites & Vectors, 2014
Background Ecto-Nucleoside Triphosphate Diphosphohydrolases (Ecto-NTPDases) are enzymes that hydrolyze tri- and/or di-phosphate nucleotides. Evidences point to their participation in Trypanosoma cruzi virulence and infectivity.
Natália Lins Silva-Gomes, Vitor Ennes-Vidal, Julliane Castro Ferreira Carolo, Marcos Meuser Batista, Maria Nazaré Soeiro, Rubem Menna-Barreto, Otacilio Cruz Moreira   +6 more
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Expression of active trypsin-like serine peptidases in the midgut of sugar-feeding female Anopheles aquasalis

Parasites & Vectors, 2015
Background Anopheles aquasalis is a dipteran of the family Culicidae that is widely distributed in the coastal regions of South and Central America.
Geovane Dias-Lopes, Andre Borges-Veloso, Leonardo Saboia-Vahia, Gilberto B. Domont, Constança Britto, Patricia Cuervo, Jose Batista De Jesus   +6 more
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Detection and genotyping of Trypanosoma cruzi from açai products commercialized in Rio de Janeiro and Pará, Brazil

Parasites & Vectors, 2018
Background Several cases of food-borne acute Chagas disease (ACD) have been reported in the Brazilian Amazon so far. Up to 2004, the occurrence of ACD by oral transmission, associated with food consumption, was rare.
Renata Trotta Barroso Ferreira, Maria Luiza Cabral, Ronald Sodré Martins, Paula Finamore Araujo, Sérgio Alves da Silva, Constança Britto, Maria Regina Branquinho, Paola Cardarelli-Leite, Otacilio C. Moreira   +8 more
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Role of FAK signaling in chagasic cardiac hypertrophy

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020
Cardiac hypertrophy and dysfunction are a significant complication of chronic Chagas disease, with heart failure, stroke, and sudden death related to disease progression.
Amanda R. Tucci, Francisco O. R. de Oliveira, Jr, Guilherme C. Lechuga, Gabriel M. Oliveira, Ana Carolina Eleuterio, Liliane B. de Mesquita, Priscila S.G. Farani, Constança Britto, Otacílio C. Moreira, Mirian Claudia S. Pereira   +9 more
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