INTRODUÇÃO: O aumento das práticas de ecoturismo e turismo rural, em Minas Gerais, Brasil, evidencia a importância de se realizarem estudos sobre a ocorrência de hospedeiros intermediários do Schistosoma mansoni, no estado. O presente trabalho objetivou a busca e identificação das espécies de caramujos Biomphalaria encontrados em municípios mineiros pertencentes à Estrada Real, um importante projeto de turismo ...
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Fasciolosis is a disease of importance for both veterinary and public health. For the first time, georeferenced prevalence data of Fasciola hepatica in bovines were collected and mapped for the Brazilian territory and data availability was discussed. Bovine fasciolosis in Brazil is monitored on a Federal, State and Municipal level, and to improve monitoring it is essential to combine the data collected on these...
Snails of the family Lymnaeidae act as intermediate hosts in the biological cycle of Fasciola hepatica, which is a biological agent of fasciolosis, a parasitic disease of medical importance for humans and animals. The present work aimed to update and map the spatial distribution of the intermediate host snails of F. hepatica in Brazil. Data on the distribution of lymnaeids species were compiled from the Collect...
Estima-se que haja hoje no país cerca de 2,5 milhões de portadores de esquistossomose mansoni — popularmente conhecida como barriga d’água —, afora mais 25 milhões de brasileiros expostos ao risco de contrair a doença. Esta obra, comemorativa ao centenário da descoberta do Schistosoma mansoni no Brasil pelo pesquisador baiano Manuel Augusto da Silva Pirajá, está sendo considerada a mais completa e atual já prod...
Biomphalaria glabrata (control), B. tenagophila and B. straminea from our laboratory colonies initiated with molluscs collected in the municipality of Belo Horizonte, MG (Brasil), were experimentally infected with first-stage larvae of Angiostrongylus costaricensis. The number of molluscs of each species exposed was 139, 77 and 149. About 25 days later, surviving molluscs were individually examined by artificia...
The interrelation between schistosomiasis and the retinol blood levels was studied in a double blind method, by comparing the serum vitamin A of the infected and non-infected group of an endemic area of Schistosoma mansoni infection. The infected group was characterized by 106 parasitized persons in the intestinal and hepatointestinal forms, who eliminated less than 500 eggs/gram of feces (Modified Kato's metho...
Com o objetivo de testar a viabilidade do ciclo biológico, 15 pacientes (masculinos, de quatro a 14 anos) com Ascaris lumbricoides, foram selecionados ao acaso. Após tratamento clássico com sais básicos de levamisole (7 pacientes) e de pamoato de pirantel (8), os ovos retirados das fêmeas expelidas ficaram incubados por 18 dias em de H2SO4 N/10. A seguir foram administrados per os a grupos de 5 camundongos por ...