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Campylobacter spp. were detected - using culture, ELISA, PCR, and qPCR - among children (0 – 36 months) with moderate to severe diarrhea in Northeastern Brazil. Our data showed that either the qPCR alone or PCR along with ELISA might be an alternative to culture to diagnose Campylobacter due to their enhanced sensitivity.
Campylobacter sp. is an important cause of food-borne gastroenteritis with high incidence in children living in developing countries. However, the specific diagnosis of its etiology remains as a challenge, since conventional diagnosis by culture is now challenged by molecular and immunoenzymatic methods, which have greater sensitivity. We postulate that the knowledge of its virulence and specific diagnosis may ...
Herbal compounds rich in triterpenes are well known to regulate glucose and lipid metabolism and to have beneficial effects on metabolicdisorders.ThepresentstudyinvestigatedtheantiobesitypropertiesofresinfromProtiumheptaphyllum(RPH)andthe possible mechanisms in mice fed a high-fat diet (HFD) for 15 weeks. Mice treated with RPH showed decreases in body weight, netenergyintake,abdominalfataccumulation,plasmagluco...
Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli are important etiologic agents of worldwide diarrheal disease. Campylobacter sp. infection is usually identified by a 72 hour microbiological culture that identifies the genus of the responsible organism. Our main goal was to investigate the prevalence of C. jejuni and C. coli in children, aged 2-36 months, from urban Fortaleza, CE, Brazil, in an observational epidemi...
Human visceral leishmaniasis, one of the most important zoonoses, is caused by the protozoaLeishmania chagasi(syn. L. infantum ) and is present as a fatal disease common in South America and Europe where dogs and wild canids are the main reservoirs. A vaccine against visceral leishmaniasis would be an important tool in the control of this disease in dogs. Although the current strategies for vac-cination against...