• Chronic methylmercury exposure causes spinal cord impairment: proteomic modulation and oxidative stress 

  Eiró, Luciana Guimarães; Ferreira, Maria Karolina Martins; Bittencourt, Leonardo Oliveira; Aragão, Walessa Alana Bragança; Souza, Michel Platini Caldas de; Silva, Marcia Cristina Freitas; Dionizio, Aline; Buzalaf, Marília Afonso Rabelo; Crespo-López, Maria Elena; Lima, Rafael Rodrigues (Elsevier, 2020)

  Methylmercury (MeHg) is considered by the World Health Organization (WHO) as one of the chemicals of greatest public health concern. Although central nervous system (CNS) is the main target organ, the effects over the ...

• The use of the circulating cathodic antigen (Cca) urine cassette assay for the diagnosis and assessment of cure of schistosoma mansoni infections in an endemic 

  Sousa, Sergei Rodrigo Magalhães de; Nogueira, Joyce Favacho Cardoso; Dias, Isabelle Helena Lima; Fonseca, Álvaro Luan Santana; Favero, Vivian; Geiger, Stefan Michael; Enk, Martin Johannes (Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2020)

  INTRODUCTION: Schistosomiasis is a poverty-related disease that affects people in 78 countries worldwide. This study aimed to evaluate the point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen (POC-CCA) test performance using sensitive ...

• Insect-specific viruses and arboviruses in adult male culicids from Midwestern Brazil 

  Ferreira, Raquel da Silva; Cruz, Lucinéia Claudia de Toni Aquino da; Souza, Vilma Jucineide; Neves, Nilvanei Aparecido da Silva; Souza, Victor Costa de; Franco Filho, Luciano Chaves; Lemos, Poliana da Silva; Lima, Clayton Pereira Silva de; Naveca, Felipe Gomes; Atanaka, Marina; Nunes, Marcio Roberto Teixeira; Slhessarenko, Renata Dezengrini (Elsevier, 2020)

  Viruses were identified from male anthropophilic mosquitoes from Mato Grosso (MT) State, Midwest Brazil from February 2017 to January 2018. Mosquitoes tested included Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti (1139 males; 84 pools), Culex ...

• Geochemical background concentrations of potentially toxic elements in soils of the Carajás Mineral Province, southeast of the Amazonian Craton 

  Lima, Mauricio Wilians de; Hamid, Sheryle Santos; Souza, Edna Santos de; Teixeira, Renato Alves; Palheta, Dulcidéia da Conceição; Faial, Kelson do Carmo Freitas; Fernandes, Antonio Rodrigues (Springer Verlag, 2020)

  The objective of this study was to establish background concentrations of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in soils from the Carajás Mineral Province (CMP), southeastern Amazonian Craton. The PTEs Al, Ba, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, ...

• Evaluation of immunoglobulin M-specific capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays and commercial tests for flaviviruses diagnosis by a National Reference Laboratory 

  Henriques, Daniele Freitas; Nunes, Juliana A. L; Anjos, Maura V; Melo, Juliana M; Rosário, Wallace O; Azevedo, Raimunda do Socorro da Silva; Chiang, Jannifer Oliveira; Martins, Livia Carício; Santos, Flavia B. dos; Casseb, Livia Medeiros Neves; Vasconcelos, Pedro Fernando da Costa; Rodrigues, Sueli Guerreiro (Elsevier, 2020)

  Zika and Dengue viruses present considerable immunological cross-reactivity, resulting in a troublesome serodiagnosis due to occurrence of false positive results. Due to Brazil’s wide variety of circulating flaviviruses ...

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