Vol. 105(6) - September 2010 Click on link to access pdf of articles.
	Protoscolex of Echinococcus granulosus. See pages: 806-810.

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ARTICLES
Immunological and parasitological parameters after treatment with dexamethasone in murineSchistosoma mansoni
- Ibrahim RB Aly, Mohamed A Hendawy, Eman Ali, Eman Hassan, Mona MF Nosseir
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Low and high-dose intradermal infection with Leishmania major and Leishmania amazonensis in C57BL/6 mice
- Denise Fonseca Côrtes, Matheus Batista Heitor Carneiro, Liliane Martins Santos, Talita Correia de Oliveira Souza, Tatiane Uceli Maioli, Ana Luiza C Duz, Maria Letícia Ramos-Jorge, Luis Carlos Crocco Afonso, Claudia Carneiro, Leda Quercia Vieira
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The benefits of using selenium in the treatment of Chagas disease: prevention of right ventricle chamber dilatation and reversion of Trypanosoma cruzi-induced acute and chronic cardiomyopathy in mice
- Andréa P de Souza, Linda A Jelicks, Herbert B Tanowitz, Bianca P Olivieri, Monica M Medeiros, Gabriel M Oliveira, Andrea Rodrigues Cordovil Pires, Alessandro M dos Santos, Tania C Araújo-Jorge
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Residual effect of a micro-encapsulated formulation of organophosphates and piriproxifen on the mortality of deltamethrin resistant Triatoma infestans populations in rural houses of the Bolivian Chaco region
- Abraham Gemio Alarico, Nahuel Romero, Laura Hernández, Silvia Catalá, David Gorla
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IgG and IgM western blot assay for diagnosis of congenital toxoplasmosis
- Anderson S Machado, Gláucia MQ Andrade, José N Januário, Matheus D Fernandes, Ana Carolina AV Carneiro, Mariângela Carneiro, Ericka VM Carellos, Roberta MC Romanelli, Daniel V Vasconcelos-Santos, Ricardo WA Vitor
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Phylogeny, ultrastructure, histopathology and prevalence of Myxobolus oliveirai sp. nov., a parasite ofBrycon hilarii (Characidae) in the Pantanal wetland, Brazil
- Tiago Milanin, Jorge C Eiras, Sarah Arana, Antônio AM Maia, Anderson L Alves, Márcia RM Silva, Mateus M Carriero, Paulo S Ceccarelli, Edson A Adriano
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Hepatitis B genotype G and high frequency of lamivudine-resistance mutations among human immunodeficiency virus/hepatitis B virus co-infected patients in Brazil
- Adriana Cristina da Silva, Ângela Maria Miranda Spina, Marcílio Figueiredo Lemos, Isabel Takano Oba, Cristina de Fátima Guastini, Michele Soares Gomes-Gouvêa, João Renato Rebello Pinho, Maria Cássia Jacintho Mendes-Correa
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Genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from a low-endemic setting in northwestern state of Paraná in southern Brazil
- Erika Noda Noguti, Clarice Queico Fujimura Leite, Ana Carolina Malaspina, Adolfo Carlos Barreto Santos, Rosário Dominguez Crespo Hirata, Mario Hiroyuki Hirata, Elsa Massae Mamizuka, Rosilene Fressatti Cardoso
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Expression of bacterial virulence factors and cytokines during in vitro macrophage infection by enteroinvasive Escherichia coli and Shigella flexneri: a comparative study
- Silvia Y Bando, Ana CR Moreno, José AT Albuquerque, Juliana MK Amhaz, Carlos A Moreira-Filho, Marina B Martinez
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Description of Sergentomyia (Parrotomyia) rectangulata sp. nov. (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) from southern India
- Srinivasan Renganathan, Jambulingam Purushothaman
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Detection of Leishmania infantum in naturally infected Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) and Canis familiaris in Misiones, Argentina: the first report of a RFLP-PCR and sequencing-based confirmation assay
- Soraya Alejandra Acardi, Domingo Javier Liotta, María Soledad Santini, Carlo Mariano Romagosa, Oscar Daniel Salomón
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Socioepidemiological screening of serologically ineligible blood donors due to Chagas disease for the definition of inconclusive cases
- Márcia M Ferreira-Silva, Gilberto A Pereira, Eliane Lages-Silva, Helio Moraes-Souza
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Molecular characterization of Echinococcus granulosus from Peru by sequencing of the mitochondrial cytochrome C oxidase subunit 1 gene
- Elizabeth Sánchez, Omar Cáceres, César Náquira, David Garcia, Gladys Patiño, Herrera Silvia, Aline C Volotão, Octavio Fernandes
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Immune response to Leishmania (Leishmania) chagasi infection is reduced in malnourished BALB/c mice
- Tiago Donatelli Serafim, Guilherme Malafaia, Marcelo Eustáquio Silva, Maria Lúcia Pedrosa, Simone Aparecida Rezende
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Antigenic extracts of Leishmania braziliensis and Leishmania amazonensis associated with saponin partially protects BALB/c mice against Leishmania chagasi infection by suppressing IL-10 and IL-4 production
- Rafaella FQ Grenfell, Eduardo A Marques-da-Silva, Miriam C Souza-Testasicca, Eduardo AF Coelho, Ana Paula Fernandes, Luís Carlos C Afonso, Simone A Rezende
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Nested PCR to detect and distinguish the sympatric filarial species Onchocerca volvulus, Mansonella ozzardi and Mansonella perstans in the Amazon Region
- Thuy-Huong Ta Tang, Rogelio López-Vélez, Marta Lanza, Anthony John Shelley, Jose Miguel Rubio, Sérgio Luiz Bessa Luz
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SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
Serologic evidence of the recent circulation of Saint Louis encephalitis virus and high prevalence of equine encephalitis viruses in horses in the Nhecolândia sub-region in South Pantanal, Central-West Brazil
- Alex Pauvolid-Corrêa, Fernando Neto Tavares, Eliane Veiga da Costa, Fernanda Marcicano Burlandy, Michele Murta, Aiesca Oliveira Pellegrin, Márcia Furlan Nogueira, Edson Elias da Silva
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Differential tissue tropism of Trypanosoma cruzi strains: an in vitro study
- Luciana O Andrade, Lúcia MC Galvão, Maria de Nazareth SL Meirelles, Egler Chiari, Sergio DJ Pena, Andrea M Macedo
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High prevalence of drug-resistant tuberculosis and other mycobacteria among HIV-infected patients in Brazil: a systematic review
- Ricardo H Bammann, Liliana A Zamarioli, Valdir S Pinto, Carla MP Vázquez, Marcelo N Litvoc, Giselle B Klautau, Fernando A Fiúza de Melo, Nilton J Cavalcante, Lucilaine Ferrazoli
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