AIDS
Bello G, Eyer-Silva WA, Couto-Fernandez JC, Guimarães ML, Chequer-Fernandez SL, Teixeira SL, Morgado MG. Demographic history of HIV-1 subtypes B and F in Brazil.
Infect Genet Evol. 7: 263-270, 2007.
Bello G, Guimarães ML, Chequer-Fernandez SL, Eyer- Silva WA, Couto-Fernandez JC, Teixeira SL, Morgado MG. Increasing genetic distance to HIV-1 subtype B and F1 consensus sequences in the Brazilian epidemic: a challenge for vaccine strategies based on central immunogens? Infect Genet
Evol. 7: 594-599, 2007.
Bongertz V, Ouverney EP, Fernandez SC, Grinsztejn B, Veloso V, Couto-Fernandez JC, Pilotto JH, Morgado MG. Anti-human immunodeficiency vírus type 1 humoral immune response and highly active antiretroviral treatment. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 102: 817-825, 2007.
Bongertz V, Ouverney EP, Fernandez SC, Grinsztejn B, Veloso V, Couto-Fernandez JC, Pilotto JH, Eyer-Silva WA, Couto- Fernandez JC, Morgado MG. Molecular Epidemiology of HIV type 1 in inner Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. AIDS Res Hum
Retroviruses. 23: 303-308, 2007.
Morgado MG. Anti-human immunodeficiency vírus type 1 humoral immune response and highly active antiretroviral treatment. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 102: 817-825, 2007. Guimarães ML, Eyer-Silva WA, Couto-Fernandez JC, Morgado MG. Identification of two new CRF_BF in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. AIDS. 22: 433-5, 2008.
Eyer-SilvaI WA, Couto-Fernandez JC; Silva-de-Jesus C; Morgado MG. Prevalence of HIV type 1 drug resistance mutations in treatment-naïve and experienced patients from resource-limited settings with universal access to antiretroviral therapy: a survey in two small Brazilian cities. Mem. Inst.
Oswaldo Cruz;103:143-149, 2008.
Doença de Chagas, trypanosomas e seus vetores
Aguilar HM, Abad-Franch F, Dias JCP; Junqueira ACV, Coura JR. Chagas disease in the Amazon Region. Mem Inst Oswaldo
Cruz. 30: 47-56, 2007.
Borges-Pereira J, Xavier SS, Souza AS, Castro JAF, Zauza PL, Coura JR. Prevalência de aneurismas do ventrículo esquerdo em pacientes chagásicos crônicos de duas áreas do Estado do Piauí. Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop l 40: 521-526, 2007.
Coura JR. Chagas disease: what is known and what is needed - A background article. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 30: 113-122, 2007 dos Santos SM, Lopes CM, Dujardin JP, Panzera F, Pérez R, Carbajal de la Fuente AL, Pacheco RS, Noireau F. Evolutionary relationships based on genetic and phenetic characters between Triatoma maculata, Triatoma pseudomaculata and morphologically related species (Reduviidae: Triatominae). Infection, Genetics and Evolution. 7:469-475, 2007
Maia da Silva F, Junqueira ACV, Campaner M, Rodrigue AC, Crisante G, Ramirez LE, Caballero, CE, Monteiro, FA, Coura JR, Anez N, Teixeira MMG. Comparative phylogeography of Trypanosoma rangeli and Rhodnius (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) supports a long coexistence of parasite lineages and their sympatric vectors. Mol Ecol. 16: 3361-3373, 2007.
Pacheco RS, Almeida CE, Klisiowicz DR, Costa J, Pires MQ, Panzera F, Bar ME, Mas-Coma S, Bargues ME. Genetic variability of Triatoma rubrovaria (Reduviidae: Triatominae) from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay as revealed by two different molecular markers. Parasite 14: 231-237, 2007. Toma HK, Yamada-Ogatta SF, Brandão A, Krieger MA, Goldenberg S, Fernandes O. Trypanosoma cruzi: Subtractive hybridization as a molecular strategy to generate new targets to distinguish groups and hybrids. Exp Parasitol 117:178-187, 2007.
Xavier SCC, Vaz VC, D’Andrea PS, Herrera L, Emperaire L, Alves JR, Fernandes O, Ferreira LF, Jansen AM. Mapping of the distribution of Trypanosoma cruzi infection among small wild mammals in a conservation unit and its surroundings (Northeast-Brazil). Parasitol Int. 56:119-128, 2007.
Almeida CE, Pacheco RS, Haag K, Dupas S, Dotson EM, Costa J. Inferring from the Cyt B gene the Triatoma brasiliensis Neiva, 1911 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) genetic structure and domiciliary infestation in the State of Paraiba, Brazil. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 78:791-802, 2008.
Borges-Pereira J, Sarquis O, ZauzaI PL, Britto C, LimaII MM. Epidemiologia da doença de Chagas em quatro localidades rurais de Jaguaruana, Estado do Ceará: soroprevalência da infecção, parasitemia e aspectos clínicos. Rev. Soc. Bras. Med.
Bern C, Coura JR, Goldenberg S, Guhl F, Junqueira ACV, Lorca M, Luquetti AO, Ribeiro I, Saez-Alquezar A, Torrico F, Umezawa ES, Ward B, Albajar-Vinas P, Chaves G, Flevaud L, Goiri J, Guillerm M, Karunakara UK, Lotrowska M, Rocha S, Usdin M. International meeting: new diagnostic tests are urgently needed to treat patients with Chagas disease. Rev.
Soc. Bras. Med. Trop. 41:315-319, 2008.
Brandão A. Trypanosomatid EST: a neglected information resource regarding flagellated protozoa? Mem. Inst. Oswaldo
Cruz;103:622-6, 2008.
Brandão A, Samudio F, Fernandes O, Calzada JE, Sousa OE. Genotyping of Panamanian Trypanosoma cruzi stocks using the calmodulin 3´UTR polymorphisms. Parasitol Res, 102:523-526, 2008.
Brito CM, Lima MM, Sarquis O, Pires MQ, Coutinho CF, Duarte R, Pacheco RS. Genetic polymorphism in Trypanosoma
cruzi I isolated from Brazilian Northeast triatomines revealed
by low-stringency single specific primer–polymerase chain reaction. Parasitol Res. 103:1111-7, 2008.
De Oliveira Lima AN, Da Silva Santos S, Herrera HM, Gama C, Cupolillo E, Jansen AM, Fernandes O. Trypanosoma evansi: Molecular homogeneity as inferred by phenetical analysis of ribosomal internal transcribed spacers DNA of an eclectic parasite. Exp Parasitol. 118:402-7, 2008.
Dias JCP, Coura JR. Pilar Nieto Alderete – Obituary. Rev. Soc.
Bras. Med. Trop, 41: 221-222, 2008
Dias JCP, Coura JR. Emmanuel Dias and Trypanosoma cruzi discovery: two centenaries to celebrate – Editorial. Mem. Inst.
Oswaldo Cruz. 103:415-6, 2008.
Dias JCP, Prata A, Coura JR. Emmanuel Dias: o principal artífice do combate à doença de Chagas nas Américas. Rev.
Soc. Bras. Med. Trop. 41:502-504, 2008.
Lima MM, Coutinho CF, Gomes TF, Oliveira TG, Duarte R, Borges-Pereira J, Bóia MN, Sarquis O. Risk presented by Copernicia prunifera palm trees in the Rhodnius nasutus distribution in a Chagas disease-endemic area of the Brazilian Northeast. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 79:750-4, 2008.
Roque ALR, Xavier SCC, Da Rocha MG, Duarte ACM,
Santos-Mallet JR, Silva CS, Gomes SA, Oliveira DL, Santos CL, Sousa DM, Pinheiro NL, Junqueira AC, Gonçalves TC. Molecular characterization of Trypanosoma cruzi sylvatic isolates from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Parasitol Res. 103:1041-5, 2008.
Tricomoniase
De Jesus JB, Cuervo P, Junqueira M, Britto C, Silva-Filho FC, Sabóia-Vahia L, González LJ, Barbosa Domont G. Application of two-dimensional electrophoresis and matrix- assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry for proteomic analysis of sexually transmitted parasite Trichomonas vaginalis. J Mass Spectrom. 42: 1463- 1473, 2007.
Malária
Gama BE, Silva-Pires FE, Lopes MN, Cardoso MA, Britto C, Torres KL, de Mendonça Lima L, de Souza JM, Daniel- Ribeiro CT, Ferreira-da-Cruz Mde F. Real-time PCR versus conventional PCR for malaria parasite detection in low-grade parasitemia. Exp Parasitol. 116: 427-432, 2007.
Ladeia-Andrade S, Ferreira MU, Scope KKG, Braga EM, Silva Bastos M, Wunderlich G, Coura JR. Naturally acquired antibodies to merozoite surface protein (MSP)-1 19 and cumulative exposure to Plasmodium falciparum and
Plasmodium vivax in remote populations of the Amazon Basin
of Brazil. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 102, 943-951, 2007. Suárez-Mutis MC, Cuervo P, Leoratti FM, Morães-Avila S, Ferreira AW, Fernandes O, Coura JR. Cross sectional study reveals a high percentage of asymptomatic Plasmodium vivax infection in the Amazon Rio Negro area, Brazil. Rev Inst Med
Trop S Paulo. 49:159-164, 2007.
Suárez-Mutis MC, Coura JR. Mudanças no padrão epidemiológico da malária em área rural do médio rio Negro, Amazônia brasileira: Análise retrospectiva. Cad. Saúde
Publica 23: 795-804, 2007.
Leoratti FM, Farias L, Alves FP, Suarez-Mutis MC, Coura JR, Kalil J, Camargo EP, Moraes SL, Ramasawmy R. Variants in the toll-like receptor signaling pathway and clinical outcomes
Esquistosomose
Conceição, MJ, Borges-Pereira J e Coura, JR. A thirty years follow-up study on Schistosomiasis mansoni in a community of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 102: 1007- 1009, 2007.
Conceição MJ, Lenzi HL, Coura JR. Human study and experimental behavior of Schistosoma mansoni isolates from patients with different clinical forms of schistosomiasis. Acta
Tropica. 108: 98-103, 2008.
Da Silva IM, Pereira Filho E, Thiengo R, Ribeiro PC, Conceição MJ, Panasco M, Lenzi HL. Schistosomiasis haematobia: histopathological course determined by cystoscopy in a patient in whom praziquantel treatment failed. Revista do Instituto de
Medicina Tropical de São Paulo. 50:6, 2008.
Parasitas Intestinais
Aguiar JIA, Gonçalves AQ; Sodré FC, Pereira SR, Bóia MN; Lemos ERS, Daher RR. Intestinal protozoans and helminths among Terena Indians in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil: high prevalence of Blastocystis hominis. Rev Soc Bras
Med Trop 40: 631-634, 2007.
Carvalho-Costa FA, Gonçalves AQ, Lassance SL, Albuquerque CP, Leite JP, Boia MN. Detection of Cryptosporidium spp and other intestinal parasites in the children with acute diarrhea and severe dehydration in Rio de Janeiro. Rev Soc Bras Med
Trop 40: 346-348, 2007.
Carvalho-Costa FA, Gonçalves AQ, Lassance SL, Silva Neto LM, Salmazo CAA, Bóia MN. Giardia lamblia and other intestinal parasitic infections and their relationships with nutritional status in children in Brazilian Amazon. Rev Inst
Med Trop S Paulo, 49: 147-143, 2007.
Gonçalves AQ, Viana JC, Pires EM, Bóia MN, Coura JR, Silva EF. The use of the antifungal agent miconazole as an inibidor of Blastocystis hominis growth in Entamoeba histolytica and E.
dispar cultures.Rev Inst Med Trop S Paulo 49: 201-202, 2007.
Volotao AC, Costa-Macedo LM, Haddad FS, Brandao A, Peralta JM, Fernandes O. Genotyping of Giardia duodenalis from human and animal samples from Brazil using beta-giardin gene: a phylogenetic analysis. Acta Trop. 102: 10-19, 2007. Volotão AC, Júnior JC, Grassini C, Peralta JM, Fernandes O. Genotyping of Giardia duodenalis from Southern Brown Howler monkeys (Alouatta clamitans) from Brazil. Veterinary
Parasitology, 158:133-137, 2008.
Toxoplasmoses
Andrade MCR, Coelho JMCO, Amendoeira MRR, Vicente RT, Cardoso CVP, Ferreira PCB, Marchevsky RS. Toxoplasmosis in squirrel monkeys: histological and immunohistochemical analysis. Ciência Rural .37: 1725-1727, 2007.
Kompalic-Cristo A, Frotta C, Suarez-Mutis M, Fernandes O, Britto C. Evaluation of a real-time PCR assay based on the repetitive B1 gene for the detection of Toxoplasma gondii in human peripheral blood. Parasitol Res 101: 619-625, 2007. Millari PR, Daguer H, Vicente RT, Costa T, Lustoza-de-Carli A, Sobreiro LG, Amendoeira MRR. Soroprevalência de anticorpos anti-Toxoplasma gondii em trabalhadores de um matadouro de suínos e em indivíduos com outras atividades na cidade de Palmas, Paraná, Brasil. Ciência Rural. 37:292-295, 2007. Boia MN, Costa FAC, Sodré FC, Pinto GMT, Amendoeira MRR. Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection among Indian people living in Iauareté, São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas, Brazil. Rev Inst Med Trop S Paulo, 50:17-20, 2008. Millar, PR, Daguer H, Vicente RT, Costa T, Sobreiro LG, Amendoeira MRR. Toxoplasma gondii: estudo soro- epidemiológico de suínos da região Sudoeste do Estado do Paraná. Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 28:15-18, 2008. Millar PR, Sobreiro LG, Bonna ICF, Amendoeira MRR. A importância dos animais de predução na infecção por Toxoplasma
gondii no Brasil. Semina: Ciências Agrárias, 29:. 693-706, 2008.
Ribeiro AC, Suarez-Mutis MC, Fernandes O. Association of the presence of residual anti-Toxoplasma gondii IgM in pregnant women and their respective family groups in Miracema, Norwest Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz. 103:591-594, 2008.
Leishmanioses e seus transmissores
Afonso MM, Costa WA, Azevedo AC, Costa SM, Vilela ML, Rangel EF. Dados sobre a fauna flebotomínica (Diptera,
Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) do Parque Nacional de Itatiaia,
Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Cad. Saúde Pública 23:725- 730, 2007.
Azeredo-Coutinho RB, Conceição-Silva F, Schubach A, Cupolillo E, Quintella LP, Madeira MF, Pacheco RS, Valete-Rosalino CM, Mendonça SC. First report of diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis and Leishmania amazonensis infection in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 101:735-7, 2007.
Costa SM, Cechinel M, Bandeira V, Zannuncio JC, Lainson R, Rangel EF. Lutzomyia (Nyssomyia) whitmani s.I. (Antunes e Coutinho, 1939) (Díptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae): geographical distribution and the epidemiology of the American cutaneous leishmaniasis I Brazil - Mini-review.
Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz, 102:149-153, 2007.
Cuervo P, de Jesus JB, Junqueira M, Mendonca-Lima L, Gonzalez LJ, Betancourt L, Grimaldi G Jr, Domont GB, Fernandes O, Cupolillo E. Proteome analysis of Leishmania
(Viannia) braziliensis by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis
and mass spectrometry. Mol Biochem Parasitol 154: 6-21, 2007. Fagundes A, Marzochi MC, Fernandes O, Perez MA, Schubach AO, Schubach TM, Amendoeira MR, Mouta- Confort E, Marzochi KB. First encounter of subclinical human
Leishmania (Viannia) infection in Rio Grande do Sul State,
Brazil. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 102: 1003-1005, 2007. Michalsky EM, Rocha MF, Lima AC, França-Silva JC, Pires MQ, Oliveira FS, Pacheco RS, dos Santos SL, Barata RA, Romanha AJ, Fortes-Dias CL, Dias ES. Infectivity of seropositive dogs, showing different clinical forms of leishmaniasis, to Lutzomyia longipalpis phlebotomine sand flies. Vet Parasitol. 147:67-76, 2007.
Azevedo ACR, Costa SM, Pinto MCG, Souza JL, Cruz HC, Vidal J, Rangel EF. Studies on the sandfly fauna (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) from transmission areas of American cutaneous Leishmaniasis in state of Acre, Brazil.
Mem. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. 103, 760-767, 2008.
Cuervo P, Santos AL, Alves CR, Menezes GC, Silva BA, Britto C, Fernandes O, Cupolillo E, Batista De Jesus J. Cellular localization and expression of gp63 homologous metalloproteases in Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis strains.
Acta Trop. 106(3):143-8, 2008.
Gouveia C, Asensi MD, Zahner V, Rangel EF, de Oliveira SMP. Study on the bacterial midgut microbiota associated to different Brazilian populations of Lutzomyia longipalpis (Lutz & Neiva) (Diptera: Psychodidae). Neotropical Entomology. 37, 597-601, 2008.
Rangel EF, Vilela ML. Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera, Psychodidade, Phlebotominae) and urbanization of visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil. Cad. Saúde Pública, 24: 2948-2952,
Simulídeos e Oncocercose
Gil-Azevedo, LH; Maia-Herzog, M. Preliminary Considerations on Phylogeny of Simuliidae Genera from Southern Hemisphere (Insecta, Diptera. Zootaxa. 1643: 39-68, 2007.
Hernandez LM, Shelley AJ, Luna Dias APA, Maia-Herzog M. New specific synonymies and taxonomic notes on Neotropical black flies (Díptera: Simuliidae) belong to the subgenera
Chirostilbia Enderlein, Hemicnetha Enderlein, Inaequalium
Coscarón & Wygodzinsky, Psaronocompsa Enderlein and
Psilopelmia Enderlein. Zootaxa. 1506:1-80, 2007.
Marchon-Silva V, Caer JC, Post RJ, Maia-Herzog M, Fernandes O. Detection of Onchocerca volvulus (Nematoda: Onchocercidae) infection in vectors from Amazonian Brazil following mass Mectizan distribution. Mem Inst Oswaldo
Cruz. 102, 197-202, 2007.
Adami YL, Moraes MA, Lanfredi RM, Maia-Herzog M. An atypical microfilariae in blood samples from inhabitants of Brazilian Amazon. Parasitology Research. 104, 95-99, 2008. Figueiro R, Nascimento ES, Gil-Azevedo LH, Maia-Herzog M, Monteiro RF. Local distribution of blackfly (Diptera, Simuliidae) larvae in two adjacent streams: the role of water current velocity in the diversity of blackfly larvae. Revista
Brasileira de Entomologia. 52:452-454, 2008.
Hernández LM, Shelley AJ, Luna Dias AP de A, Maia-Herzog M. Review of the Neotropical blackfly subgenus Chirostilbia
Enderlein (Diptera: Simuliidae) based on adults and pupal
morphology. Zootaxa. 1834:1-100, 2008.
Enterobactérias
Esposto E.M., Silva W.C.P., Reis C.M.F., Reis E.M.F., Ribeiro R.V., Rodrigues D.P. Enteropatógenos bacterianos em peixes criados em uma estação de reciclagem de nutrientes e no ecossistema relacionado. Pesq. Vet. Bras. 27 (4): 144-148, 2007. Pereira CS, Possas CA, Viana CM, Rodrigues DP. Características de Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolados de mexilhões (Perna perna) comercializados em Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. Rev Soc.
Pereira CS, Possas CA, Viana CM, Rodrigues DP. Vibrio spp. isolated from in natura and precooked mussels (Perna perna) of an Experimental Station Culture, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Cienc. Tecnol. Aliment. 27: 387-390, 2007.
Pereira CS, Amorim SD, Santos AF, Siciliano S, Moreno IM, Ott PH, Rodrigues DP. Vibrio spp. isolated from marine mammals captured in coastal regions from southwestern to southern Brazil. Pesq. Vet. Bras. 27: 81-83, 2007.
Pereira CS, Viana CM, Rodrigues DP. Pathogenic Vibrios in oysters (Crassostrea rhizophorae) served at restaurants in Rio de Janeiro: a public health warning. Rev Soc Bras Med Trop. 40: 300-303, 2007.
Pereira C S, Rodrigues DP, Viana CM. Isolamento de Vibrio
spp. em mexilhões (Perna perna) coletados na região de Ponta
de Itaipu, Niteroi, RJ. Higiene Alimentar, 21:157, 2007. Lafisca A, Pereira CS, Giaccone V, Rodrigues DP. Enzymatic characterization of Vibrio alginolyticus strains isolated from bivalves harvested at Venice Lagoon (Italy) and Guanabara Bay. Rev Inst Med Trop São Paulo. 50:199-202, 2008.
Pereira CS, Amorim SD, Santos AF das M. et al. Caracterização de Aeromonas spp isoladas de neonatos hospitalizados. Rev
Soc Bras Med Trop. 41:179-182, 2008.
Mycobacterias
Cavalcanti HR, Marques E, Fonseca LS, Saad MHF. Do DNA extraction methods and TAQ polimerase quality improve the double repetitive element (DRE) PCR typing method for
Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains? Braz. J. Microbiol 38:
409-412, 2007.
Mendes JM, Fonseca LS, Lourenço MC, Ferreira RMC, Saad MHF. A retrospective study of the epidemiological aspects of tuberculosis in the Complexo de Manguinhos an urban slum area in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2000-2002. J Bras Pneumol. 33: 443-447, 2007.
Mendes JM, Lourenço MC, Ferreira RMC, Fonseca LS, Saad MHF. Drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated from sputum samples from symptomatic outpatients - Complexo de Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. J Bras
Pneumol. 33: 579-582, 2007.
Tavares RC, Salgado J, Moreira VB, Ferreira MA, Mello FC, Leung JW, Fonseca Lde S, Spallek R, Singh M, Saad MH. Interferon gamma Response to the Combinations 38 kDa/ CFP-10, 38 kDa/MPT-64, ESAT-6/MPT-64 and ESAT-6/ CFP-10, Each related to a single Recombinant Protein of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis in individuals from Tuberculosis
endemic Areas. Microbiol Immunol. 51: 289-296, 2007. Trajman A, Kaisermann C, Luiz RR, Sperhacke RD, Rossetti ML, Féres Saad MH, Sardella IG, Spector N, Kritski AL. Pleural fluid ADA, IgA-ELISA and PCR sensitivities for the diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis. Scand J Clin Lab Invest. 67: 877-884, 2007.
Malaspina AC, Cavalcanti HR, Leite CQF, Machado SMA, Viana BHJ, Silva RMG, Hage EF, Figueiredo WM, Marques E, Ferrazoli L, Arbex M, Lessi M, Fonseca LS, Rigouts L. and Saad, MHF. Usefulness of Mycobacterium tuberculosis molecular typing in a tuberculosis low-endemic agro-industrial setting of Brazil. Japanese Journal of Infections Diseases, 61:231-233, 2008.
Silva VMC, Sardella IG, Raggio LR, Cunha AJLA, Cavalcanti AH, Mahavir S, Barreto MM, Rodrigues RS, Carvalho TF, Saad MHF. Immunoreactivity of five antigens of Mycobacterium
tuberculosis in patients attending a public health care facility
in an area with high endemicity for TB. Microbiol. Immunol 52:544-550, 2008.
Zoonoses Bacterianas
de Souza AI, Nogueira JMR, Pereira MM. Anticorpos anti- leptospira em pacientes de Mato Grosso do Sul com suspeita clínica de dengue ou hepatite viral. Rev da Soc Bras de Med Trop 40: 431-435, 2007.
Faria MT, Calderwood MS, Athanazio DA, McBride AJ, Hartskeerl RA, Pereira MM, Reis MG. Carriage of Leptospira interrogans among domestic rats from an urban setting highly endemic for leptospirosis in Brazil. Acta Tropica. 108:1-5, 2008.
Bacillus thuringiensis, bartonelloses e outras bacterias
Lamas C, Favacho A, Ramos RG, Santos MS, Ferravoli GI, Weksler C, Rozental T, Bóia MN;, Lemos ERS. Bartonella native valve endocarditis: the first Brazilian case alive and well. Braz. J. Infect. Dis. 11:591-594, 2007.
Chaves JQ, Cavados CFG, Rabinovitch L. P h e n o t y p i c and genotypic features of new autoagglutinating Bacillus
thuringiensis strains. J Invertebr Pathol. 98: 85-92, 2008.
Lamas C, Curi A, Bóia MN, Lemos ERS. Human bartonellosis: seroepidemiological and clinical features with an emphasis on data from Brazil - a review. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 103:3, 2008. Pinto Jr. VLP, Curi AL, Pinto AS, Nunes EP, Teixeira MLB, Rozental T, Favacho AR, Lemos ERS, Bóia MN. Cat scratch disease complicated with aseptic meningitis and neuroretinitis.
Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases,12:2, 2008.
Tuyama M, Boente RF, Rebelo MC, Igreja RP, Barroso DE. The utility of the polymerase chain reaction assay for aetiologic definition of unspecified bacterial meningitis cases. Mem Inst
Oswaldo Cruz. 103: 138-142, 2008.
Malacologia
Thiengo SC, Faraco FA, Salgado NC, Cowie RH, Fernandez MA. Rapid spread of an invasive snail in South America: the giant African snail, Achatina fulica, in Brazil. Biological
Invasions,12, 2007.
Hayes KA, Joshi RC, Thiengo SC, Cowie, RH. Out of South America: multiple origins of non-native apple snails in Asia.
Diversity & Distributions. 14: 701-712, 2008.
Thiengo SC, Fernandez MA, Torres EJL, Coelho PM, Lanfredi RM. First record of a nematode Metastrongyloidea (Aelurostrongylus abstrusus larvae) in Achatina (Lissachatina)
fulica (Mollusca, Achatinidae) in Brazil. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 98 : 34-39, 2008.
Hepatites Virais
Kasprowicz V, Ward SM, Turner A, Grammatikos A, Nolan BE, Ximenez LL, Sharp C, Woodruff J, Fleming VM, Sims S, Walker BD, Sewell AK, Lauer GM e Klenerman P. Defining the directionality and quality of influenza virus-specific CD8+ T cell cross-reactivity in individuals infected with hepatitis C virus.
The journal of clinical investigation, 118: 1143-1153, 2008.
Kasprowicz V, zur Wiesch JS, Kuntzen T, Nolan BE,
HCV infection, irrespective of clinical outcome. Journal of
Virology. 82: 3154-3160, 2008.
Lampe E, Yoshida CFT, De Oliveira RV, Lauer GM e Lewis- Ximenez LL. Molecular analysis and patterns of ALT and hepatitis C virus seroconversion in haemodialysis patients with acute hepatitis. Nefrology.13,186-192, 2008.
Tolentino YF, Fogaca HS, Zaltman C, Ximenes LL, Coelho HS. Hepatitis B virus prevalence and transmission risk factors in inflammatory bowel disease patients at Clementino Fraga Filho university hospital. World J Gastroenterol. 14:3201-6, 2008.
Hantaviroses e Rickettsioses
Raboni SM, Levis S, Rosa ES, Bisordi I, Delfraro A, Lemos E, Correia DC, Duarte dos Santos CN. Hantavirus infection in Brazil: development and evaluation of an enzyme immunoassay and immunoblotting based on N recombinant protein. Diagn
Microbiol Infect Dis. 58: 89-97, 2007.
Lamas C, Favacho A, Rozental T, Bóia MN, Kirsten AH, Guterres A, Barreira J, de Lemos ERS. Characterization of Rickettsia
rickettsii in a case of fatal Brazilian spotted fever in the city of Rio