Ornithodoros mimon is an argasid tick species usually associated with bats and marsupials and occasionally parasitizes humans inside their homes. This paper reports a tick infestation in a residence in the municipality of Campinas, located in the interior of the state of São Paulo (SP). This ...
Gastrointestinal parasites are a significant challenge in sheep farming, and periparturient ewes are one of the most susceptible categories in sheep flocks. This study aimed to verify whether the injection of B vitamins at the acupuncture point governing vessel 14 (GV14) can influence th...
In Brazil, lamb producers face challenges raising their animals because of high anthelmintic resistance and loss of productivity due to parasites. It is well known that parasitic infections can reduce the performance of sheep. However, until the publication of this work, no research was found that quanti...
The black aphid Aphis craccivora (Koch, 1854) stands out between the bugs considered cowpea pests. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of silicon application on the resistance induction of cowpea plants to the black aphid A. craccivora. The experiment was conducted in the Entomology L...
Among the management and control tactics of the coffee berry borer Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari), there is the use of entomopathogenic fungi. Due to the importance of prospecting isolates of entomopathogenic fungi for the control of the coffee berry borer, the objective of this study was to evaluate the ...
We report a clinical case from a patient with alcoholic cirrhosis who had chronic anemia and carried out several
endoscopic studies without evidence of active bleeding, a complementary study with endoscopic capsule was
requested to search for a source of bleeding. In the analysis of laboratory data, the ...
Parasitosis Intestinales/diagnóstico,
Intestinos/parasitología,
Hemorragia Gastrointestinal/diagnóstico,
Hemorragia Gastrointestinal/etiología,
Cirrosis Hepática/complicaciones,
Anemia/etiología,
Endoscopía Capsular,
Parasitosis Intestinales/complicaciones,
Eosinofilia/etiología,
Antiparasitarios/uso terapéutico,
Parasitosis Intestinales/tratamiento farmacológico
Las garrapatas son ectoparásitos hematófagos obligados que actúan como vectores biológicos de diversos patógenos ya que parasitan aves, reptiles y mamíferos. Las enfermedades en las cuales actúan como vectores son la anaplasmosis, piroplasmosis, borreliosis, theileriosis y diversas enfermedades ri...
Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a tick-borne rickettsiosis. The main clinical signs and symptoms are fever, severe headache, rashes and myalgia. It is considered difficult to diagnose and underreported. The study aims to descriptively analyze the epidemiology of cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in B...
Objetivo: realizar análises parasitológicas em amostras de solo provenientes da represa da Bica situada no município de Catalão-GO. Métodos: a área do entorno da represa foi dividida em cinco parcelas, sendo realizadas coletas em dois pontos de cada parcela, superior e inferior. Foram realizadas qu...
La equinococosis quística (EQ) a pesar de ser una enfermedad endémica en diversos lugares del planeta, presenta pocos estudios morfológicos y cuantitativos de las estructuras fundamentales del Echinococcus granulosus en humanos, en especial de los protoescólices. El objetivo de este estudio fue anali...
