ResumenMicropterus salmoides es una especie muy apreciada en la acuacultura y pesca deportiva, sin embargo, no existen estudios sistemáticos sobre los parásitos en México. El objetivo principal del presente estudio fue describir la prevalencia, abundancia e intensidad de los metazoarios parásitos de ...
AbstractHuman pressure on natural habitats increases the importance of agroforests for biodiversity conservation. The objective of this study was to evaluate the role of cacao traditional cultivation system (CTCS) on the conservation of the herbivorous insect community when compared with a monodominant r...
Provavelmente sim. Não existem evidências que comprovem a segurança do uso de larvicidas em água potável. Entretanto, os poucos estudos que existem avaliando o efeito em população de mamíferos, assim como as avaliações de biodisponibilidades e citotoxicidade, demonstram que em baixa concentraç...
Abstract: INTRODUCTION: Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by the protozoan Leishmania that resides mainly in mononuclear phagocytic system tissues. Pentavalent antimonials are the main treatment option, although these drugs have toxic side effects and high resistance rates. A potentially alternative an...
Gluconato de Sodio Antimonio/química,
Gluconato de Sodio Antimonio/farmacología,
Antiprotozoarios/química,
Antiprotozoarios/farmacología,
Cricetinae,
Relación Dosis-Respuesta a Droga,
Concentración 50 Inhibidora,
Leishmania infantum/efectos de los fármacos,
Liposomas,
Macrófagos Peritoneales/parasitología,
Meglumina/química,
Meglumina/farmacología,
Antimoniato de Meglumina,
Ratones,
Ratones Endogámicos BALB C,
Compuestos Organometálicos/química,
Compuestos Organometálicos/farmacología,
Pruebas de Sensibilidad Parasitaria,
Fosfatidilserinas/química,
Fosfatidilserinas/farmacología
Abstract: INTRODUCTION: To characterize Trypanosoma cruzi (TcI) isolated from a Panstrongylus megistus specimen found in one of the biggest metropolitan areas of Latin America, the relationship between the TcI group of T. cruzi and the transmission cycle in the urban environment was studied. METHODS: ...
Abstract: INTRODUCTION: Before 2004, the occurrence of acute Chagas disease (ACD) by oral transmission associated with food was scarcely known or investigated. Originally sporadic and circumstantial, ACD occurrences have now become frequent in the Amazon region, with recently related outbreaks spreading...
Abstract: Cryptosporidiosis is a very prominent disease in the field of public health, and usually causes diarrhea. We describe two immunocompetent patients who presented with chronic diarrhea that was ultimately found to be caused by continuous exposure to well water contaminated with the microbial cyst...
ABSTRACT Human toxocariasis is a parasitic zoonosis mainly caused by Toxocara canis or Toxocara catiand is acquired by ingestion of the parasite’s embryonated eggs. Arthralgia and/or arthri-tis were reported in up to 17% of the cases, generally with acute duration (less than 6weeks). However, to ou...
Introducción: las amebas de vida libre (AVL) han sido aisladas de hábitat incluyendo: agua, suelo y vegetación. Los cambios ecológicos y la incursión de estos hábitats, han hecho que puedan invadir un hospedero y vivir como parásitos dentro de él. Por esto, las especies de los géneros Acanthamoe...
Abstract A population survey was conducted to explore the prevalence and factors associated with Leishmania infection in the Fercal region of the Federal District. The Fercal region is a group of neighborhoods in Brasília in which the first cases of visceral leishmaniasis were described. Leishmania infe...
