New issue Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz | Vol. 106(2) | March 2011

Vol. 106(2) - March 2011 Click on link to access pdf of articles.
	Confocal microscopy of the two forms of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis stained with calcofluor white (cell wall, green) and SYBR Green I (DNA, red). Bottom: mycelia; top: yeast. Image by Marcus M. Teixeira and André M. Nicola. See pages: 220-226.

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ARTICLES

Antimicrobial resistance profiles and genetic characterisation of macrolide resistant isolates of Streptococcus agalactiae
- Priscila AM Nakamura, Rôde Beatriz B Schuab, Felipe PG Neves, Cláudio FA Pereira, Geraldo R de Paula, Rosana R Barros
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Malaria seroprevalence in blood bank donors from endemic and non-endemic areas of Venezuela
- Carmen Elena Contreras, Marcos De Donato, María Ana Rivas, Hectorina Rodulfo, Robert Mora, María Eulalia Batista, Norka Marcano
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New insights into trypanosomatid U5 small nuclear ribonucleoproteins
- Marco Túlio A da Silva, Daniela L Ambrósio, Caroline C Trevelin,Tatiana F Watanabe, Helen J Laure, Lewis J Greene, José C Rosa, Sandro R Valentini, Regina MB Cicarelli
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Detection of rifampin-resistant genotypes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by reverse hybridization assay
- Raquel de A Maschmann, Mirela Verza, Marcia SN Silva, Rosa Dea Sperhacke, Marta O Ribeiro, Philip Noel Suffys, Harrison Magdinier Gomes, Enrico Tortoli, Fiorella Marcelli, Arnaldo Zaha, Maria Lucia R Rossetti
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The ability of haemolysins expressed by atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli to bind to extracellular matrix components
- Caroline A Magalhães, Sarita S Rossato, Ângela S Barbosa, Thiago O dos Santos, Waldir P Elias, Marcelo P Sircili, Roxane MF Piazza
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Schistosoma mansoni: a method for inducing resistance to praziquantel using infected Biomphalaria glabrata snails
- Flávia FB Couto, Paulo Marcos Z Coelho, Neusa Araújo, John R Kusel, Naftale Katz, Liana K Jannotti-Passos, Ana Carolina A Mattos
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Studying nanotoxic effects of CdTe quantum dots in Trypanosoma cruzi
- Cecilia Stahl Vieira, Diogo Burigo Almeida, André Alexandre de Thomaz, Rubem Figueredo Sadok Menna-Barreto, Jacenir Reis dos Santos-Mallet, Carlos Lenz Cesar, Suzete Araujo Oliveira Gomes, Denise Feder
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Correlation between koilocytes and human papillomavirus detection by PCR in oral and oropharynx squamous cell carcinoma biopsies
- Glauco Issamu Miyahara, Luciana Estevam Simonato, Neivio José Mattar, Deolino João Camilo Jr, Eder Ricardo Biasoli
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Descriptive ecology of bat flies (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea) associated with vampire bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in the cerrado of central Brazil
- Ludmilla Moura de Souza Aguiar, Yasmine Antonini
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The impact of the nelfinavir resistance-conferring mutation D30N on the susceptibility of HIV-1 subtype B to other protease inhibitors
- André FA Santos, Marcelo A Soares
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An experimental protocol for the establishment of dogs with long-term cellular immune reactions to Leishmania antigens
- Márcia Cristina Aquino Teixeira, Geraldo Gileno de Sá Oliveira, Patrícia Oliveira Meira Santos, Thiago Campanharo Bahiense, Virginia Maria Goes da Silva, Márcio Silva Rodrigues, Daniela Farias Larangeira, Washington Luis Conrado dos-Santos, Lain Carlos Pontes-de-Carvalho
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Correlation of meta 1 expression with culture stage, cell morphology and infectivity in Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis promastigotes
- Marcos Gonzaga dos Santos, Maria Fernanda Laranjeira da Silva, Ricardo Andrade Zampieri, Rafaella Marino Lafraia, Lucile Maria Floeter-Winter
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Colorimetric microwell plate reverse-hybridization assay for Mycobacterium tuberculosis detection
- Candice Tosi Michelon, Franciele Rosso, Karen Barros Schmid, Rosa Dea Sperhacke, Martha Maria Oliveira, Afrânio Lineu Kritski, Leonides Rezende Jr, Elis Regina Dalla Costa, Andrezza Woloski Ribeiro, Mirela Verza, Patrícia Izquierdo Cafrune, Márcia Susana Nunes Silva, Daniele Kuhleis, Arnaldo Zaha, Maria Lucia Rosa Rossetti
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Identification of candidate antigens from adult stages of Toxocara canis for the serodiagnosis of human toxocariasis
- Patrícia Longuinhos Peixoto, Evaldo Nascimento, Guilherme Grossi Lopes Cançado, Rodrigo Rodrigues Cambraia de Miranda, Regina Lunardi Rocha, Ricardo Nascimento Araújo, Ricardo Toshio Fujiwara
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Leishmania infection in humans, dogs and sandflies in a visceral leishmaniasis endemic area in Maranhão, Brazil
- Ilana Mirian Almeida Felipe, Dorlene Maria Cardoso de Aquino, Oliver Kuppinger, Max Diego Cruz Santos, Maurício Eduardo Salgado Rangel, David Soeiro Barbosa, Aldina Barral, Guilherme Loureiro Werneck, Arlene de Jesus Mendes Caldas
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Modulation of expression and activity of cytochrome P450s and alteration of praziquantel kinetics during murine schistosomiasis
- Mara A Gotardo, Juliana T Hyssa, Renato S Carvalho, Rosangela R De-Carvalho, Luciana S Gueiros, Carolina M Siqueira, Marcia Sarpa, Ana Cecilia AX De-Oliveira, Francisco JR Paumgartten
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Polymorphism analysis of the CTLA-4 gene in paracoccidioidomycosis patients
- Viviane F Lozano1, Tulio C Lins, Marcus M Teixeira, Rodrigo G Vieira, Maria Heloisa SL Blotta, Alfredo M Goes, Izabel Cristina R Silva, Rinaldo W Pereira, Anamelia L Bocca, Maria Sueli S Felipe
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Parvovirus B19 antibodies and correlates of infection in pregnant women attending an antenatal clinic in central Nigeria
- Samuel E Emiasegen, Lohya Nimzing, Moses P Adoga, Adamu Y Ohagenyi, Rufai Lekan
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Dispersal of Triatoma infestans and other Triatominae species in the arid Chaco of Argentina - Flying, walking or passive carriage? The importance of walking females
- Luciana Beatriz Abrahan, David Eladio Gorla, Silvia Susana Catalá
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SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Influence of anti-filarial chemotherapy strategies on the genetic structure of Wuchereria bancrofti populations
- Dhamodharan Ramasamy, Hoti Sugeerappa Laxmanappa, Rohit Sharma, Manoj Kumar Das
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2D-immunoblotting analysis of Sporothrix schenckii cell wall
- Estela Ruiz-Baca, Héctor M Mora-Montes, Everardo López-Romero, Conchita Toriello, Virgilio Mojica-Marín, Norma Urtiz-Estrada
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In vitro activity of amphotericin B cochleates against Leishmania chagasi
- Aretha Molina Sesana, Renata Monti-Rocha, Solange Alves Vinhas, Carlos Gustavo Morais, Reynaldo Dietze, Elenice Moreira Lemos
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