2 documents found, page 1 of 1
Zoonotic parasites infecting free-living armadillos from Brazil
Kluyber, Danilo; Desbiez, Arnaud L. J.; Attias, Nina; Massocato, Gabriel F.; Gennari, Solange M.; Soares, Herbert S.; Bagagli, Eduardo [UNESP]Made available in DSpace on 2021-06-25T11:05:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-05-01; Armadillos are specialist diggers and their burrows are used to find food, seek shelter and protect their pups. These burrows can also be shared with dozens of vertebrate and invertebrate species and; consequently, their parasites including the zoonotics. The aim of this study was to diagnose the presen...
Genotyping of Mycobacterium leprae for better understanding of leprosy transmis...
Fontes, Amanda N. B.; Lima, Luana N. G. C.; Mota, Rosa M. S.; Almeida, Rosa Lívia Freitas de; Pontes, Maria A.; Gonçalves, Heitor de S.Leprosy is endemic in large part of Brazil with 28,761 new patients in 2015, the second largest number worldwide and reaches 9/10.000 in highly endemic regions and 2.7/10.000 in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará, Northeast Brazil. For better understanding of risk factors for leprosy transmission, we conducted an epidemiologic study supplemented by 17 locus VNTR and SNP 1–4 typing of Mycobacterium leprae in skin biop...