4 documents found, page 1 of 1
Congenital Chagas disease: alert of research negligence
Dias, Nayra; Carvalho, Bruna Caroline Véras de; Araújo, Nadjar Nitz Silva Lociks de; Hagström, Luciana; Vital, Tamires Emanuele; Hecht, Mariana MachadoINTRODUCTION: Chagas disease (CD), a neglected endemic disease in Latin America, has acquired new epidemiological characteristics with an increase in the importance of alternative transmission routes such as congenital transmission. We evaluated the scientific research on this subject. METHODS: We searched the Scielo, BVS, and PubMed databases from 2006 to 2017. RESULTS: We identified a small number of publishe...
Improving the reference standard for the diagnosis of canine visceral leishmani...
Teixeira, Ana Izabel Passarella; Silva, Debora Marcolino; Vital, Tamires Emanuele; Nitz, Nadjar; Carvalho, Bruna Caroline Véras deBACKGROUND Studies aimed at validating canine visceral leishmaniasis diagnostic tests present heterogeneous results regarding test accuracy, partly due to divergences in reference standards used and different infection evolution periods in animals. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of the rapid test-dual path platform (TR-DPP) (Biomanguinhos®), EIE-Leishmaniose-Visceral-Canina-Biomanguinhos (E...
The role of gallery forests in maintaining Phlebotominae populations: potential...
Machado, Tâmara Dias Oliveira; Souza, Thaís Tâmara Castro Minuzzi; Ferreira, Tauana de Sousa; Freire, Luciana Pereira; Timbó, Renata VelôzoBackground: knowledge on synanthropic phlebotomines and their natural infection by Leishmania is necessary for the identification of potential areas for leishmaniasis occurrence. Objective: to analyse the occurrence of Phlebotominae in gallery forests and household units (HUs) in the city of Palmas and to determine the rate of natural infection by trypanosomatids. Methods: gallery forests and adjacent household...
Detecção de DNA de Leishmania spp. no sangue e em esperma de indivíduos residen...
Vital, Tamires EmanueleDissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Medicina, Pós-Graduação em Ciências Médicas, Laboratório Multidisciplinar de Pesquisa em Doença de Chagas, 2014; A leishmaniose é uma zoonose transmitida por flebotomíneos e causada por várias espécies do gênero Leishmania. Na região Amazônica, em particular no estado do Pará, a doença de Chagas e as leishmanioses compartilham área de transmissão, o ...