• DNA damage and proteomic profile changes in rat salivary glands after chronic exposure to inorganic mercury 

  Aragão, Walessa Alana Bragança; Bittencourt, Leonardo Oliveira; Lima, Leidiane Alencar de Oliveira; Souza, Michel Platini caldas de; Nogueira, Lygia Sega; Dionizio, Aline; Buzalaf, Marília Afonso Rabelo; Oliveira, Edivaldo Herculano Corrêa de; Lopez, Maria Elena Crespo; Lima, Rafael Rodrigues (Springer Verlag, 2022)

  Mercury (Hg) is a toxic metal that became a public health problem due to environmental contamination caused by anthropogenic activity. In this sense, oral homeostasis can undergo changes due to the toxic effects of metal ...

• Behavioral and neuropathological changes after Toxoplasma gondii ocular conjunctival infection in BALB/c Mice 

  Soares, Gabrielly Lisboa da Silva; Leão, Ellen Rose Leonardo Ponce de; Freitas, Sinara Franco; Alves, Raissa Maria Carvalho; Tavares, Naiana de Paula; Costa, Maria Vitória Nascimento; Menezes, Gabriel Castro de; Oliveira, Jhonnathan Henrique Palheta de; Guerreiro, Luma Cristina Ferreira; Assis, Alexa Camila Lopes de; Araújo, Sanderson Corrêa; Franco, Felipe Tuji de Castro; Anaissi, Ana Karyssa Mendes; Carmo, Ediclei Lima do; Morais, Rafaela dos Anjos Pinheiro Bogoevich; Demachki, Samia; Diniz, José Antônio Picanço; Nunes, Heloisa Marceliano; Anthony, Daniel C; Diniz, Daniel Guerreiro; Diniz, Cristovam Wanderley Picanço (Frontiers Media, 2022)

  Ocular infection with Toxoplasma gondii causes toxoplasmosis in mice. However, following ocular infection with tachyzoites, the cause of the accompanying progressive changes in hippocampal-dependent tasks, and their ...

• Analysis of malaria clinical-epidemiological predictors in individuals from Brazilian Amazon 

  Lisboa, Paulo Guilherme Souza; Medeiros, Janaina Maria Rodrigues; Souza, Arthur Vinícius de; Santos, Bruno Fernando Barros dos; Sanches, Henrique Otavio Coutinho; Rocha, Juliane Lúcia Gomes da; Corrêa Junior, Wender de Jesus Pena; Costa, Gabriela Goes; Chaves, Tania do Socorro Souza; Ventura, Ana Maria Revoredo da Silva; Libonati, Rosana Maria Feio (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

  This research aims to determine whether the combination of epidemiological and clinical features can predict malaria. Diagnostic investigation detected 22.3% of individuals with Plasmodium vivax (P. vivax) malaria, with ...

• Whole-genome sequencing of Leishmania infantum chagasi isolates from Honduras and Brazil 

  Silveira, Fernando Tobias; Sousa Junior, Edivaldo Costa; Silvestre, Rodrigo Vellasco Duarte; Martins, André Guilherme Costa; Pinheiro, Kenny da Costa; Ochoa, Wilfredo Sosa; Santos, Thiago Vasconcelos dos; Ramos, Patrícia Karla; Casseb, Samir Mansour Moraes; Silva, Sandro Patroca da; Valeriano, Concepción Zúniga; Lima, Luciana Vieira; Campos, Marliane Batista; Matta, Vania Lucia da; Gomes, Claudia Maria; Flores, Gabriela Venicia; Pacheco, Carmen Maria; Corbett, Carlos Eduardo; Nakaya, Helder; Laurenti, Márcia Dalastra (American Society for Microbiology, 2021)

  This work reports on the whole-genome sequencing of Leishmania infantum chagasi from Honduras (Central America) and Brazil (South America).

• Mixed Plasmodium malariae infections were underdetected in a malaria endemic area in the Amazon Region, Brazil 

  Cunha, Maristela Gomes da; Santos, Camille S; Raiol, Milene; Costa, Sheyla Patrícia T; Ventura, Ana Maria Revoredo da Silva; Póvoa, Marinete Marins; Santos, Ândrea Ribeiro dos (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2021)

  Plasmodium malariae infections are often asymptomatic and long-lasting. Mixed infections are often underdetected in areas where P. malariae, P. vivax, and P. falciparum are coendemic. In this study, we described the ...

• Evaluation of systemic immunity in atypical cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania (L.) infantum chagasi 

  Laurenti, Márcia Dalastra; Sosa-Ochoa, Wilfredo; Flores, Gabriela Venicia Araújo; Pacheco, Carmen Maria Sandoval; Tomokane, Thaise Yumie; Oliveira, Luanda Mara da Silva; Zúniga, Concepción; Silveira, Fernando Tobias; Corbett, Carlos Eduardo Pereira (Wiley, 2022)

  In some central-American countries, Leishmania (L.) infantum chagasi infection can cause non-ulcerated or atypical cutaneous leishmaniasis (NUCL) in addition to the classic clinical form, visceral leishmaniasis (VL). Little ...

• Yellow fever reemergence in Venezuela – Implications for international travelers and Latin American countries during the COVID-19 pandemic 

  Morales, Alfonso J. Rodríguez; Aldana, D. Katterine Bonilla; Suárez, José Antonio; Paredes, Carlos Franco; Peña, David A. Forero; Mattar, Salim; Gómez, Wilmer E. Villamil; Sáenz, Julián Ruíz; Ospina, Jaime A. Cardona; Figuera, Manuel E; Carrero, Leandro Luis Sierra; Risquez, Alejandro; Cimerman, Sergio; Cedeño, Nereida Valero; Cabrera, Maritza; Barrios, Andrea J. Robaina; Díaz, Luis López; Barbella, Rosa; Navas, Rosa M; Quijano, Fredi Díaz; Carrero, Yenddy; Pineda, Anishmenia; Brito, Maximo O; Larriera, Eduardo Savio; Gutierrez, Marlen Martinez; Afaray, Julio Maquera; Portilla, Marco A. Solarte; Botero, Sebastián Hernández; Contreras, Krisell; López, Maria Graciela; Martinez, Andrés F. Henao; Martinez, Yeimer Ortiz; Chaves, Tânia do Socorro Souza; Orduna, Tomas; Lepetic, Alejandro; Macchi, Alejandra; Verbaanz, Sergio; Perret, Cecilia; Echazarreta, Sofía; Lloveras, Susana Cristina; Gallego, Viviana; Navarro, Juan-Carlos; Mondolfi, Alberto Paniz (Elsevier, 2021)

• Morphological description of immature stages of Trichophoromyia brachipyga (Mangabeira) (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) 

  Uzcátegui, Yetsenia Del Valle Sánchez; Santos, Thiago Vasconcelos dos; Póvoa, Marinete Marins (Magnolia Press, 2021)

  Trichophoromyia brachipyga (Mangabeira) (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) is a widely distributed species that has been recently regarded as a putative vector of Leishmania (Viannia) lainsoni Silveira, Shaw, Braga & ...

• Effects of fluoride on submandibular glands of mice: changes in oxidative biochemistry, proteomic profile, and genotoxicity 

  Lima, Leidiane Alencar de Oliveira; Miranda, Giza Hellen Nonato; Aragão, Walessa Alana Bragança; Bittencourt, Leonardo Oliveira; Santos, Sávio Monteiro dos; Souza, Michel Platini Caldas de; Nogueira, Lygia Sega; Oliveira, Edivaldo Herculano Corrêa de; Monteiro, Marta Chagas; Dionizio, Aline; Pessan, Juliano Pelim; Buzalaf, Marília Afonso Rabelo; Lima, Rafael Rodrigues (Frontiers Media, 2021)

  Although fluoride (F) is well-known to prevent dental caries, changes in cell processes in different tissues have been associated with its excessive exposure. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the effects of F exposure ...

• Socio-epidemiological features and spatial distribution of Malaria in an area under mining activity in the Brazilian Amazon Region 

  Ueno, Thalyta Mariany Rêgo Lopes; Lima, Luana Nepomuceno Gondim Costa; Sardinha, Daniele Melo; Rodrigues, Yan Corrêa; Souza, Herberto Ueno Seelig de; Teixeira, Paula Ribeiro; Guimarães, Ricardo José de Paula Souza e; Lima, Karla Valéria Batista; Ventura, Ana Maria Revorêdo da Silva (MDPI, 2021)

  Abstract: Malaria is an acute febrile infectious disease that represents an important public health problem in the Brazilian amazon region. The present study described the socio-epidemiological and spatial characteristics ...

• Environmental influences measured by epigenetic clock and vulnerability components at birth impact clinical ASD heterogeneity 

  Reis, Viviane Neri de Souza; Tahira, Ana Carolina; Gastaldi, Vinícius Daguano; Mari, Paula; Portolese, Joana; Santos, Ana Cecilia Feio dos; Lisboa, Bianca; Mari, Jair; Caetano, Sheila C; Brunoni, Décio; Bordini, Daniela; Paula, Cristiane Silvestre de; Vêncio, Ricardo Z. N; Quackenbush, John; Brentani, Helena (MDPI, 2021)

  Although Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is recognized as being heavily influenced by genetic factors, the role of epigenetic and environmental factors is still being established. This study aimed to identify ASD vulnerability ...

• The Psychodidae (Diptera) of Jail National Park (Amazonas, Brazil) with description of two new species of Psychodinae 

  Cordeiro, Danilo Pacheco; Aquino, Karina Kethelen Silva de; Alves, Veracilda Ribeiro (Magnolia Press, 2021)

  The Jaú National Park, located in the Amazon, is the largest National Park of Brazil and still its insect fauna is barely known. Herein we describe two new species of Psychodinae, Alepia iy sp. nov. and Parasetomima timmirima ...

• T. gondii Infection in urban and rural areas in the Amazon: where Is the risk for toxoplasmosis? 

  Morais, Rafaela dos Anjos Pinheiro Bogoevich; Carmo, Ediclei Lima do; Costa, Wanda Silva; Marinho, Rodrigo Rodrigues; Póvoa, Marinete Marins (MDPI, 2021)

  Toxoplasmosis, an infection caused by Toxoplasma gondii, which is found worldwide, can affect human and animal health in different ways. This study aimed to estimate the infection prevalence in humans and to determine risk ...

• Uso do Sapajus apella na padronização de modelo experimental para Schistosoma mansoni em primatas neotropicais 

  Fonseca, Álvaro Luan Santana; Dias, Isabelle Helena Lima; Sousa, Sergei Rodrigo Magalhães de; Borges, Laiza Bastos; Muniz, José Augusto Pereira Carneiro; Enk, Martin Johannes (MS/SVS/Instituto Evandro Chagas, 2021)

  OBJETIVO: Estabelecer e avaliar um modelo experimental com primatas neotropicais não humanos Sapajus apella para verificar métodos diagnósticos mais eficazes na detecção da esquistossomose, subsidiando novos estudos ...

• On Eimerla bragancaensis n. sp. (apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) and tissue-cysts of an unidentified protozoan in the bat Peropteryx macrotis (chiroptera: Emballonuridae) from Amazonian Brazil 

  Lainson, Ralph; Naiff, Robert Daibes (EDP Open, 2000)

  A description is given of the mature oocysts and endogenous stages of Eimeria bragancaensis n. sp., from the small intestine of the bat Peropteryx macrotis from north Brazil. Oocysts are spherical to subspherical, 15.9 × ...

• Diagnosis of intestinal amebiasis using coproscopic and immunological methods in a population sample in Greater Metropolitan Belém, Pará, Brazil 

  Póvoa, Marinete Marins; Arruda, José Eduardo Gomes; Silva, Mônica Cristina de Moraes; Bichara, Cléa Nazaré Carneiro; Esteves, Paulo; Gabbay, Yvone Benchimol; Machado, Ricardo Luiz Dantas (Fiocruz. Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, 2000)

  We compare diagnostic methods for Entamoeba histolytica in fecal samples from the city of Belém, Pará, Brazil. We analyze stool samples from children and adults (Group I); stool and serum samples from adults (Group II); ...

• RT9.2 - Microepidemia familiar e transmissão oral da doença de chagas na Amazonia Brasileira 

  Valente, Sebastião Aldo da Silva; Valente, Vera da Costa; Pinto, Ana Yecê das Neves; Fraiha Neto, Habib (Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2000)

• RT3.4 - Cell signaling exploitation in Leishmania amazonensis-infected macrophages: Role of parasite ecto-phosphatases in host cell deactivation 

  Martiny, A; Saad-Nehme, J; Meyer-Fernandes, J. R; Silveira, Fernando Tobias; Vannier-Santos, M. A (Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2000)

• Malaria vectors in the municipality of Serra do Navio, State of Amapá, Amazon region, Brazil 

  Póvoa, Marinete Marins; Wirtz, R. A; Lacerda, Raimundo Nonato da Luz; Miles, M. A; Warhurst, D (Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2001)

  We conducted a survey to determine the vectors of malaria in six localities of Serra do Navio municipality, State of Amapá, from 1990 to 1991. Malaria infection rates of 29.3%, 6.2% and 20.4% were detected by human blood ...

• Acometimento cardíaco em pacientes com doença de Chagas aguda em microepidemia familiar, em Abaetetuba, na Amazônia Brasileira 

  Pinto, Ana Yecê das Neves; Harada, Geraldo Saburo; Valente, Vera da Costa; Abud, José Elson Araújo; Gomes, Francisco dos Santos; Souza, Gilberto César Rodrigues de; Valente, Sebastião Aldo da Silva (Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2001)

  The authors describe the main clinical findings relative to cardiac involvement, in patients with acute Chagas' disease (CD) in yet another familial micro-epidemic episode of CD in Amazon region. Thirteen patients were ...

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