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Another tool in the toolbox: Aphid‐specific Wolbachia protect against fungal pathogens

Environmental Microbiology, Volume 26, Issue 11, November 2024.
Wolbachia infected more than 80% of Pentalonia aphids sampled across the Hawaiian Islands and other locations. The aphid‐specific M‐supergroup strains of this symbiont protected against a specialist fungal pathogen, Pandora, but not the generalist pathogen Beauveria or the parasitoid Aphidius colemanii.
Clesson H. V. Higashi, Vilas Patel, Bryan Kamalaker, Rahul Inaganti, Alberto Bressan, Jacob A. Russell, Kerry M. Oliver   +6 more
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Molecular Verification of New World Mansonella perstans Parasitemias

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017
We obtained ribosomal and mitochondrial DNA sequences from residents of Amazonas state, Brazil, with Mansonella parasitemias. Phylogenetic analysis of these sequences confirm that M. ozzardi and M.
Lucyane Bastos Tavares da Silva, James Lee Crainey, Túllio Romão Ribeiro da Silva, Uziel Ferreira Suwa, Ana Carolina Paulo Vicente, Jansen Fernandes de Medeiros, Felipe Arley Costa Pessoa, Sérgio Luiz Bessa Luz   +7 more
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Prevalence of Mansonella ozzardi among riverine communities in the municipality of Lábrea, State of Amazonas, Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2011
INTRODUCTION: Estimate the prevalence of Mansonella ozzardi infection and calculate the parasitic infection rate (PIR) in simuliid black flies in the municipality of Lábrea, State of Amazonas, Brazil.
Jansen Fernandes Medeiros, Victor Py-Daniel, Ulysses Carvalho Barbosa   +2 more
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Ocorrência da Mansonella ozzardi (Nematoda, Onchocercidae) em comunidades ribeirinhas do rio Purus, Município de Boca do Acre, Amazonas, Brasil Occurrence of Mansonella ozzardi (Nematoda, Onchocercidae) in riverine communities of the Purus river, Boca do Acre municipality, Amazonas State, Brazil

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2009
Este estudo teve o objetivo de estimar as prevalências de Mansonella ozzardi e calcular taxa de infecção parasitária nos simulídeos. O trabalho foi realizado em comunidades ribeirinhas do rio Purus, Boca do Acre, Amazonas, Brasil.
Jansen Fernandes Medeiros, Victor Py-Daniel, Ulysses Carvalho Barbosa, Guilherme Maerschner Ogawa   +3 more
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Simuliid blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) and ceratopogonid midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) as vectors of Mansonella ozzardi (Nematoda: Onchocercidae) in northern Argentina

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2001
Mansonella ozzardi, a relatively non pathogenic filarial parasite of man in Latin America, is transmitted by either ceratopogonid midges or simuliid blackflies. In the only known focus of the disease in north-western Argentina the vectors have never been
AJ Shelley, S Coscarón
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Ivermectin-related adverse clinical events in patients treated for Mansonella ozzardi infections Efectos clínicos adversos relacionados con ivermectina en pacientes tratados por infecciones con Mansonella ozzarddi

Revista Argentina de Microbiología, 2011
We report the occurrence of serious reactions after treatment with oral ivermectin in two patients with Mansonella ozzardi infections. Both had systemic and respiratory symptoms and recovered without sequelae.
Alejandro J. Krolewiecki, Silvana P. Cajal, Carlos Villalpando, José F. Gil   +3 more
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Seasonality, parity rates and transmission indices of Mansonella ozzardi (Manson) (Nematoda: Onchocercidae) by Cerqueirellum argentiscutum (Shelley & Luna Dias) (Diptera: Simulidae) in a lower Solimões River community, Amazonas, Brazil Sazonalidade, taxa de paridade e índices de transmissão de Mansonella ozzardi (Manson) (Nematoda: Onchocercidae) por Cerqueirellum argentiscutum (Shelley & Luna Dias) (Diptera: Simuliidae) em uma comunidade do baixo rio Solimões, Amazonas, Brasil

Acta Amazonica, 2004
Mansonella ozzardi is transmitted by two dipterian families, Ceratopogonidae (midges) and Simuliidae (black flies). In Brazil, black flies are vectors for this filariasis until now.
Jansen Fernandes de Medeiros, Victor Py-Daniel   +1 more
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Mansonellosis: current perspectives

Research and Reports in Tropical Medicine, 2018
Thuy-Huong Ta-Tang,1 James L Crainey,2 Rory J Post,3,4 Sergio LB Luz,2 José M Rubio1 1Malaria and Emerging Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, National Microbiology Center, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Spain; 2Laboratory of Infectious ...
Ta-Tang TH, Crainey JL, Post RJ, Luz SLB, Rubio JM   +4 more
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Mansonella ozzardi in Amazonas, Brazil: prevalence and distribution in the municipality of Coari, in the middle Solimões River

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2010
This study investigated some epidemiological aspects of the Mansonella ozzardi in municipality of Coari, Amazonas. Clinical symptoms were correlated with the filarial infection and the parasitic infection rates (PIR) were estimated in simuliid vectors ...
Marilaine Martins, Felipe Arley Costa Pessoa, Maurício Borborema de Medeiros, Edmar Vaz de Andrade, Jansen Fernandes Medeiros   +4 more
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Mansonelose no Médio Rio Purus (Amazonas)

RECIIS, 2008
A Mansonella ozzardi é um parasita filarial autóctone do continente Americano que freqüentemente infecta seres humanos na Amazônia. A infecção humana pelo M.
Yara Leite Adami, Marilza Maia Herzog
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