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PARASITES FROM HUMAN COPROLITES FROM MEXICO ZOONOTIC AND HUMAN PARASITES OF INHABITANTS OF CUEVA DE LOS MUERTOS CHIQUITOS, RIO ZAPE VALLEY, DURANGO, MEXICO. [PDF]

, 2012
We present the first reconstruction of the parasitoses among the people of the Loma San Gabriel culture, as represented by 36 coprolites excavated from the Cueva de los Muertos Chiquitos in Durango, Mexico.
Araújo, Adauto, Brooks, Richard H, Fugassa, Martín, Gardner, Scott L, Jiménez, F Agustín, Racz, Elizabeth, Reinhard, Karl   +6 more
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Two cases of cystic echinococcosis reported from al-Andalus cemeteries (southern Iberia): Insights into zoonotic diseases in Islamic Medieval Europe [PDF]

, 2023
The identification of a calcified hydatid cyst in the bioarcheological record is key to the diagnosis of cystic echinococcosis (i.e., hydatid disease), a parasitic infection caused by the tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus. This zoonosis can be linked to
Camarós, Edgard, Duras, Salvatore, Jiménez Brobeil, Sylvia Alejandra, López-Gijón, Ramón, Maroto Benavides, Rosa María, Mena-Sánchez, Luis   +5 more
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Paleoparasitology: Perspectives with New Techniques [PDF]

, 2008
Paleoparasitology is the study of parasites found in archaeological material. The development of this field of research began with histological identification of helminth eggs in mummy tissues, analysis of coprolites, and recently through molecular ...
Araújo, Adauto, Bastos, Otilio M., Costa, Ligia C., Ferreira, Luiz Fernando, Iñighez, Alena, Morel, Carlos M., Pirmez, Claude, Reinhard, Karl, Vicente, Ana Carolina   +8 more
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Studies on protozoa in ancient remains - A Review

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2013
Paleoparasitological research has made important contributions to the understanding of parasite evolution and ecology. Although parasitic protozoa exhibit a worldwide distribution, recovering these organisms from an archaeological context is still ...
Liesbeth Frías, Daniela Leles, Adauto Araújo   +2 more
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Toxocara canis (Werner, 1782) eggs in the Pleistocene site of Menez-Dregan, France (300,000-500,000 years before present)

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2003
On the archaeological site of Menez-Dregan in Brittany, France, dated 300,000-500,000 years-old, paleoparasitological analysis of cave deposits led to the detection of well-preserved helminth eggs, which morphology and morphometry pointed to the ...
Françoise Bouchet, Adauto Araújo, Stephanie Harter, Sérgio Miranda Chaves, Antonio Nascimento Duarte, Jean Laurent Monnier, Luiz Fernando Ferreira   +6 more
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The fossil tabanids (Diptera Tabanidae): when they began to appreciate warm blood and when they began transmit diseases?

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2003
A discussion of the known fossil tabanids (Diptera Tabanidae) is presented based on fossil evidence. This includes the origin of the hemathophagy in the Brachycera, more specifically for tabanids.
Rafael Gioia Martins-Neto
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Opisthorchiasis in infant remains from the medieval Zeleniy Yar burial ground of XII-XIII centuries AD

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2015
We present a paleoparasitological analysis of the medieval Zeleniy Yar burial ground of the XII-XII centuries AD located in the northern part of Western Siberia.
Sergey Mikhailovich Slepchenko, Alexander Vasilevich Gusev, Sergey Nikolaevich Ivanov, Evgenia Olegovna Svyatova   +3 more
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Thinking Complex Problems from a Social Approach: Epidemiological Transition and Chagas Disease [PDF]

, 2016
Considerando los factores epidemiológicos que determinan el curso de los cambios poblacionales, nos encontramos actualmente frente al fenómeno del (re)surgimiento de enfermedades infecciosas, lo que conduce a replantear ciertos marcos de análisis y de ...
Sanmartino, Mariana
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Lutz's spontaneous sedimentation technique and the paleoparasitological analysis of sambaqui (shell mound) sediments

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2013
Parasite findings in sambaquis (shell mounds) are scarce. Although the 121 shell mound samples were previously analysed in our laboratory, we only recently obtained the first positive results.
Morgana Camacho, Thaíla Pessanha, Daniela Leles, Juliana MF Dutra, Rosângela Silva, Sheila Mendonça de Souza, Adauto Araujo   +6 more
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Infestação pré-histórica por Pediculus humanus capitis: análise quantitativa e por microscopia de varredura de baixo vácuo [PDF]

, 2014
A pre-Columbian Peruvian scalp was examined decades ago by a researcher from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. Professor Olympio da Fonseca Filho described nits and adult lice attached to hair shafts and commented about the origin of head lice infestations on
Alves, Arthur Daniel, Araujo, Adauto, Dutra, Juliana M.F., Ferreira, Luiz Fernando, Linardi, Pedro Marcos, Pessanha, Thaila, Rachid, Rachel, Souza, Sheila Mendonca de, Souza, Wanderley de   +8 more
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