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COVID-19: UNCOVERING INDIVIDUALITY
Rosa-Freitas, Maria Goreti; Muruci-Cruz, Carolina; Dale, Luiz Fernando; Cruz, Luis Eduardo da; Kalil, JorgeSARS-Cov-2 is a virus easily transmitted by air and fomites causing acute severe respiratory syndrome. Severity in some cases requires hospitalization and complex expensive intensive care treatments. Its rampant contagious led to a a fearful pandemic affecting the whole world with millions of infected humans and almost half a million deaths in a few months in the beginning of 2020 (until June 17, 2020). SARS-C...
Preliminary assays indicate that Antonia ovata (Loganiaceae) and Derris amazoni...
Luitgards-Moura, José Francisco; Bermudez, Eloy Guillermo Castellón; Rocha, Arnaldo Felisberto Imbiriba da; Tsouris, PantelisLaboratory-reared Lutzomyia longipalpis (Lutz and Neiva 1912) was tested with extracts of two ichthyotoxic plants, known as timbós, used as fishing poison in the Amazon. Phlebotomines, L. longipalpis, and plants, Antonia ovata and Derris amazonica, were collected in the Raposa-Serra do Sol Indian Reserve, a focus of visceral leishmaniasis in the State of Roraima, Brazil. Extracts were prepared from dried leaves...
Affinity and diversity indices for anopheline immature forms
Nagm, Lucy; Luitgards-Moura, José Francisco; Neucamp, César de Souza; Monteiro-de-Barros, Fábio Saito; Honório, Nildimar Alves; Tsouris, PantelisAs for the entire Amazon Region, malaria continues to be a major health public problem in Roraima that presented an Annual Parasitic Index of 85.4 in 2005, the highest in Brazil. Information on anopheline breeding sites is an essential component in malaria control strategies. Aiming to contribute to the limited knowledge on anopheline immature forms in Roraima, collections and breeding site observations were pe...
On the possibility of autochthonous Chagas disease in Roraima, Amazon region, B...
Luitgards-Moura, José Francisco; Borges-Pereira, José; Costa, Jane; Zauza, Patrícia Lago; Rosa-Freitas, Maria GoretiChagas disease has been almost entirely eradicated from the arid zones in Central and Northeastern Brazil where rare or no autochthonous cases have been reported. However, in the last 10 years the disease has increasingly been registered in the Amazon Region. Aiming to investigate the possibility of the occurrence of autochthonous cycle of Chagas disease in Roraima, triatomine collections, vectorial susceptibil...
A Triatoma maculata (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae) population from Roraim...
Luitgards-Moura, José Francisco; Vargas, André Barbosa; Almeida, Carlos Eduardo; Magno-Esperança, Gleidson; Agapito-Souza, Ronildo; Folly-Ramos, ElaineEven though Chagas disease is rare in the Brazilian Amazon, the conditions for the establishment of domiciliated cycles prevail in many areas where triatomines are of frequent occurrence. In Roraima, a previous serological and entomological survey in three agricultural settlements showed the existence of all transmission cycle elements, i.e., individuals infected by Trypanosoma cruzi, triatomine species previou...