Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte carriage, emergence, clearance and population sex ratios in anaemic and non-anaemic malarious children Grace Olusola Gbotosho; Akintunde Sowunmi, ; Titilope Modupe Okuboyejo; Christian Tientcha Happi; Obaro Stanley Michael; Onikepe Abiola Folarin; Elsie Olufunke Adewoye PAGE: 562-569 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000500008

Specific schistosomiasis treatment as a strategy for disease control José Rodrigues Coura; Maria José Conceição PAGE: 598-603 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762010000400040

Molecular approaches for the detection of Schistosoma mansoni: possible applications in the detection of snail infection, monitoring of transmission sites, and diagnosis of human infection Frederico GC Abath; Ana Lisa do Vale Gomes; Fábio L Melo; Constança S Barbosa; Roberto P Werkhauser PAGE: 145-148 | DOI: S0074-02762006000900023

Helicobacter pylori transiently in the mouth may participate in the transmission of infection Denise G Silva; Eduardo MB Tinoco; Gifone A Rocha; Andreia Maria Camargos Rocha; Juliana B Guerra; Ivan EB Saraiva; Dulciene MM Queiroz PAGE: 657-660 | DOI: S0074-02762010000500009

Detection of Amastigote-like Forms in the Valve of Phlebotomus papatasi Infected with Leishmania major Nestor Añez, Yinshan Tang, Agustina Rojas, Gladys Crisante, Mireille Killick-Kendrick, Robert Killick-Kendrick PAGE: 495-498

Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Leishmania mexicana Infections in a Population of Neotoma micropus Russell W Raymond, Chad P McHugh*, Loren R Witt, Sara F Kerr PAGE: 171-180

Seroprevalence of Hepatitis B Virus Infection among an Afro-descendant Community in Brazil Ana RC Motta-Castro, Clara FT Yoshida, Elba RS Lemos, Jaqueline M Oliveira, Rivaldo V Cunha, Lia L Lewis-Ximenez, Pedro H Cabello, Kátia MB Lima, Regina MB Martins PAGE: 13-17

Drug Resistance and Genotypes of Strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolated from Human Immunodeficiency Virus-infected and Non-infected Tuberculosis Patients in Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil Ida Maria Foschiani Dias Baptista, Maraníbia Cardoso Oelemann*, Diltor Vladimir Araújo Opromolla, Philip Noel Suffys* PAGE: 1147-1152

Transmission of Tuberculosis in Havana, Cuba: a Molecular Epidemiological Study by IS6110 Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Typing R Diaz, RI Gomez, E Restrepo, R Rumbaut, J Sevy-Court, JA Valdivia, D van Soolingen PAGE: 437-443

Domestic and Peridomestic Transmission of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: Changing Epidemiological Patterns Present New Control Opportunities Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Jean-Pierre Dujardin, Eddy Martinez,M Dora Feliciangeli, J Enrique Perez, Laura Ney Marcelino Passerat de Silans, Philippe Desjeux PAGE: 159-162

Effects of Non-Susceptible Hosts on the Infection with Trypanosoma cruzi of the Vector Triatoma infestans: an Experimental Mode Diego P Vázquez, Delmi Canale, Ricardo E Gürtler PAGE: 413-419

Schistosomiasis Mansoni in Bananal (State of São Paulo, Brazil). II. Intermediate Hosts Horacio Manuel Santana Teles, Cláudio Santos Ferreira, Maria Esther de Carvalho, Valquíria Rosa de Lima, Fabiana Zacharias PAGE: 37-41

Natural History of Hepatitis C M Roggendorf, H Meisel, S Viazov PAGE: 189-192

Climatic Factors Related to Chagas Disease Transmission Rodolfo U Carcavallo PAGE: 367-369

Considerations on the Epidemiology and Transmission of Chagas Disease in the Brazilian Amazon Sebastião Aldo da Silva Valente, Vera da Costa Valente, Habib Fraiha Neto PAGE: 395-398

Progress Towards Interruption of Transmission of Chagas Disease Alvaro Moncayo PAGE: 401-404

An overview of malaria transmission from the perspective of Amazon Anopheles vectors Paulo FP Pimenta, Alessandra S Orfano, Ana C Bahia, Ana PM Duarte, Claudia M Ríos-Velásquez, Fabrício F Melo, Felipe AC Pessoa, Giselle A Oliveira, Keillen MM Campos, Luis Martínez Villegas, Nilton Barnabé Rodrigues, Rafael Nacif-Pimenta, Rejane C Simões, Wuelton M Monteiro, Rogerio Amino, Yara M Traub-Cseko, José BP Lima, Maria GV Barbosa, Marcus VG Lacerda, Wanderli P Tadei, Nágila FC Secundino PAGE: 23-47 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760140266

Exposure source prevalence is associated with gender in hepatitis C virus patients from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Daniele Blasquez Olmedo, Patrícia Marraccini Precioso, António Lugdero-Correia, Guida da Silva, Angela Maria Guimarães dos Santos, Luís Cristóvão Pôrto PAGE: 632-639 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160553