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Investigação sorológica e molecular de agentes virais em onças-pintadas de vida...
Onuma, Selma Samiko Miyazaki; Chaves, Luciana Botelho; Lara, Maria do Carmo Custódio de Souza Hunold; May-Júnior, Joares AdenilsonEste estudo investigou a exposição de onças-pintadas de vida livre a agentes virais selecionados em duas unidades de conservação federais no Pantanal de Mato Grosso, Brasil. Para a análise desses agentes virais, a maioria de caráter zoonótico, foram utilizados métodos sorológicos e moleculares. Nenhuma das onze onças-pintadas examinadas foi positiva na técnica de real-time RT-PCR para a detecção molecular dos a...
Studies on human anti-rabies immunization in Brazil: I - Evaluation of the 3 + ...
Zanetti, Carlos Roberto; Chaves, Luciana Botelho; Silva, Andréa de Cássia Rodrigues; Lee, Luiza Marny; Pereira, Octavio Augusto de CarvalhoThe currently used pre-exposure anti-rabies immunization schedule in Brazil is the one called 3+1, employing suckling mouse brain vaccine (3 doses on alternate days and the last one on day 30). Although satisfactory results were obtained in well controlled experimental groups using this immunization schedule, in our routine practice, VNA levels lower than 0.5 IU/ml are frequently found. We studied the pre-expos...
Studies on human anti-rabies immunization in Brazil: II - Preliminary evaluatio...
Zanetti, Carlos Roberto; Lee, Luiza Marny; Chaves, Luciana Botelho; Rodrigues, José Luiz; Eleutério, Gilton C; Pereira, Octavio Augusto de C.This study reports preliminary results of virus neutralizing antibody (VNA) titers obtained on different days in the course of human anti-rabies immunization with the 2-1-1 schedule (one dose is given in the right arm and one dose in the left arm at day 0, and one dose is apllied on days 7 and 21), recommended by WHO for post-exposure treatment with cell culture vaccines. A variant schedule (double dose on day ...