Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Clinical and Mycological Study of Scalp White Piedra in the State of Paraíba, Brazil Zélia Braz Vieira da Silva Pontes, Adriano Lira Ramos, Edeltrudes de Oliveira Lima, Maria de Fátima de Lacerda Guerra, Neuza Maria Cavalcante Oliveira, Jozemar Pereira dos Santos PAGE: 747-750

Influence of Specific Treatment on the Morbidity of Schistosomiasis Mansoni in an Endemic Area of Minas Gerais, Brazil Maria José Conceição*, J Borges-Pereira* PAGE: 755-757

Ecology of Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) in the North of the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil Alfredo CR Azevedo, Nataly A Souza, Cláudio RV Meneses, Wagner A Costa, Simone M Costa, José B Lima*, Elizabeth F Rangel PAGE: 459-464

A Longitudinal Study on the Natural Infection of Biomphalaria straminea and B. glabrata by Schistosoma mansoni in an Endemic Area of Schistosomiasis in Pernambuco, Brazil Tereza C Favre, Otávio S Pieri, Luciana C Zani, Jainne M Ferreira, Glauce G Domás, Lilian H Beck, Constança S Barbosa* PAGE: 465-475

Pelecitus helicinus Railliet & Henry, 1910 (Filarioidea, Dirofilariinae) and Other Nematode Parasites of Brazilian Birds Yoshika Oniki, JM Kinsella, Edwin O Willis PAGE: 597-598

Hepatitis A Outbreak in a Public School in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Livia Melo Villar, Maria do Carmo Esteves da Costa*, Vanessa Salete de Paula, Ana Maria Coimbra Gaspar PAGE: 301-305

Ultrastructural, Antigenic and Physicochemical Characterization of the Mojuí dos Campos (Bunyavirus) Isolated from Bat in the Brazilian Amazon Region Ana LM Wanzeller, José AP Diniz, Maria LC Gomes, Ana CR Cruz, Manoel CP Soares, Wanderley de Souza, Amélia PA Travassos da Rosa, Pedro FC Vasconcelos PAGE: 307-311

A New Species of Kritskyia (Dactylogyridae, Ancyrocephalinae) Parasite of Urinary Bladder of Prochilodus lineatus(Prochilodontidae, Characiformes) from the Floodplain of the High Paraná River, Brazil Ricardo M Takemoto, Maria de los Angeles P Lizama*, Gilberto C Pavanelli* PAGE: 313-315

Identification of Human T-lymphotropic Virus Type I (HTLV-I) Subtypes Using Restrited Fragment Length Polymorphism in a Cohort of Asymptomatic Carriers and Patients with HTLV-I-associated Myelopathy/tropical Spastic Paraparesis from São Paulo, Brazil Aluisio AC Segurado, Cláudia Biasutti, Rogério Zeigler, Cristhieni Rodrigues, Cristine D Damas, Maria Lúcia SG Jorge, Paulo E Marchiori* PAGE: 329-333

Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Study of Antibiotic Resistance and Molecular Typing in Hospital Infection Cases in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit from Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil MM Loureiro, BA de Moraes, VLF Mendonça, MRR Quadra*, GS Pinheiro*, MD Asensi PAGE: 387-394

Aspects of the Maintenance of the Life Cycle of Fasciola hepatica in Lymnaea columella in Minas Gerais, Brazil Cecília Pereira de Souza, Kelly Grace Magalhães, Liana Konovaloff Jannotti Passos, Glaucia Cristina Pereira dos Santos, Fabio Ribeiro*, Naftale Katz* PAGE: 407-410

Prevalence of Trypanosoma lewisi in Rattus norvegicus from Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil Pedro Marcos Linardi, José Ramiro Botelho PAGE: 411-414

Streblidae (Diptera) of Phyllostomid Bats from Minas Gerais, Brazil Alexsander Araújo Azevedo, Pedro Marcos Linardi PAGE: 421-422

Biting Indices, Host-seeking Activity and Natural Infection Rates of Anopheline Species in Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil from 1996 to 1998 Adenildo da Silva-Vasconcelos, Márcio Yukió Neves Kató, Eliana Neves Mourão, Raimundo Tadeu Lessa de Souza, Raimundo Nonato da Luz Lacerda, Alexander Sibajev, Pantelis Tsouris, Marinete Marins Póvoa, Hooman Momen,Maria Goreti Rosa-Freitas PAGE: 151-161

Frequency of Infection of Lutzomyia Phlebotomines with Leishmania braziliensis in a Brazilian Endemic Area as Assessed by Pinpoint Capture and Polymerase Chain Reaction José Carlos Miranda, Eliana Reis, Albert Schriefer, Marilda Gonçalves, Mitermayer Galvão Reis, Lucas Carvalho, Octavio Fernandes, Manoel Barral-Netto, Aldina Barral PAGE: 185-188

A Rural Community in a Brazilian Western Amazonian Region: Some Demographic and Epidemiological Patterns LMA Camargo, MM Moura, V Engracia, RC Pagotto, SA Basano,LH Pereira da Silva, EP Camargo, B Beiguelman, H Krieger PAGE: 193-195

Viral Hepatitis Markers in Antepartum and Postpartum Women in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Lia Laura Lewis-Ximenez, Ana Maria Coimbra Gaspar, Antonio Carlos Cavalieri D'Oro, Luiz Antonio Chilelli Mercadante, Cleber Ferreira Ginuino, Clara Fumiko Tachibana Yoshida PAGE: 203-204

Occurrence of Cryptosporidial Oocysts and Giardia Cysts in Bottled Mineral Water Commercialized in the City of Campinas, State of São Paulo, Brazil RMB Franco, R Cantusio Neto* PAGE: 205-207

Redescription of the Male of Lutzomyia lutziana (Costa Lima) and Description of the Female (Diptera: Psychodidae) José Dilermando Andrade Filho, Alessandra Gutierrez de Oliveira*, Alda Lima Falcão, Reginaldo Peçanha Brazil PAGE: 217-219

Intestinal Coccidia (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) of Brazilian Lizards. Eimeria carmelinoi n.sp., from Kentropyx calcarataand Acroeimeria paraensis n.sp. from Cnemidophorus lemniscatus lemniscatus Ralph Lainson PAGE: 227-237

Descriptions of Lutzomyia (Evandromyia) georgii n. sp. and a Synopsis of the Series infraspinosa (Diptera: Psychodidae) Rui A Freitas, Toby V Barrett PAGE: 239-245

Multicenter Brazilian Study of Oral Candida Species Isolated from Aids Patients Priscilla de Laet Sant'Ana, Eveline Pípolo Milan, Roberto Martinez, Flávio Queiroz-Telles, Marcelo Simão Ferreira, Ana Paula Alcântara, Miriam T Carvalho, Arnaldo Lopes Colombo PAGE: 253-257

Cattle Dung Breeding Diptera in Pastures in Southeastern Brazil: Diversity, Abundance and Seasonallity Júlio Mendes, Arício Xavier Linhares* PAGE: 37-41

Neutralizing Antibodies to Enterovirus 71 in Belém, Brazil Maria de Lourdes C Gomes, Ceyla Maria O de Castro, Maria José C Oliveira, Edson Elias da Silva PAGE: 47-49

Ecological Data of Travassosnema travassosi travassosi (Dracunculoidea: Guyanemidae) from the Humour of the Eyes of Acestrorhynchus lacustris from Tibagi River, Paraná, Brazil Ângela Teresa Silva-Souza, Aurélia Saraiva* PAGE: 51-52

Species Diversity and Flagellate Infections in the Sand Fly Fauna near Porto Grande, State of Amapá, Brazil (Diptera: Psychodidae. Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae) Rui A Freitas, Roberto D Naiff, Toby V Barrett PAGE: 53-59

Myxobolus absonus sp. n. (Myxozoa: Myxosporea) Parasitizing Pimelodus maculatus (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae), a South American Freshwater Fish Eduardo F Cellere, Nelson S Cordeiro,Edson A Adriano PAGE: 79-80

First Report of Lappetascaris lutjani Rasheed, 1965 (Nematoda, Ascaridoidea, Anisakidae) Parasitizing Trachipterus arawatae (Pisces, Lampridiformes) on the Atlantic Coast of Brazil Joaquim Júlio Vicente, Michael Maia Mincarone*, Roberto Magalhães Pinto PAGE: 93-94

Detection of Hepatitis B Virus Antigens in Paraffin-embedded Liver Specimens from the Amazon Region, Brazil SRR Simonetti, HG Schatzmayr, OM Barth, JP Simonetti PAGE: 105-107

A Heminested Polymerase Chain Reaction for the Detection of Brazilian Rabies Isolates from Vampire Bats and Herbivores RM Soares, F Bernardi, SM Sakamoto, MB Heinemann, A Cortez, LM Alves, AD Meyer, FH Ito, LJ Richtzenhain PAGE: 109-111

Detection and Characterization of Rotavirus G and P Types from Children Participating in a Rotavirus Vaccine Trial in Belém, Brazil JDP Mascarenhas, AC Linhares, YB Gabbay, JPG Leite* PAGE: 113-117

An Autochthonous Case of Echinococcus vogeli Rausch & Bernstein, 1972 Polycystic Echinococcosis in the State of Rondônia, Brazil Rosângela Rodrigues-Silva, José Resende V Peixoto, Regina Maria Figueiredo de Oliveira, Roberto Magalhães Pinto, Delir Corrêa Gomes PAGE: 123-126

Cercarial Chaetotaxy and Sex Differentiation of Schistosoma mansoni Deriving from Humans and Nectomys squamipes (Muridae: Sigmondontinae) in Brazil Nilcéa Freire, José Roberto Machado-Silva, Rosângela Rodrigues-Silva, Luís Rey PAGE: 127-132

Some Streblidae and Nycteribiidae (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea) from Maracá Island, Roraima, Brazil Gustavo Graciolli, Pedro Marcos Linardi PAGE: 139-141

High occurrence of Calodium hepaticum (syn. Capillaria hepatica) spurious infection in a village in the Atlantic Forest of southern Brazil Débora do Rocio Klisiowicz, Larissa Reifur, Márcia Kiyoe Shimada, Juciliane Haidamak, Regielly Caroline Raimundo Cognialli, Tatiane Ferreira PAGE: 371-373 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140315

Distribution of Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) at Different Altitudes in an Endemic Region of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in the State of Espírito Santo, Brazil Adelson Luiz Ferreira, Paulo Augusto Sessa, José Benedito Malta Varejão, Aloísio Falqueto PAGE: 1061-1067

Tumour necrosis factor -308 and -238 promoter polymorphisms are predictors of a null virological response in the treatment of Brazilian hepatitis C patients Tarciana Grandi, Cláudia Maria Dornelles da Silva, Karine Medeiros Amaral5, Paulo Dornelles Picon, Cintia Costi, Nicole Nascimento da Fré, Marilu Fiegenbaum, Tatiana Schäffer Gregianini, Christian Niel, Maria Lucia Rosa Rossetti PAGE: 345-351 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130372

An Outbreak of Gastroenteritis Associated with Astrovirus Serotype 1 in a Day Care Center, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil AMV Silva, EG Leite, RMS Assis, S Majerowicz, JPG Leite PAGE: 1069-1073

Phlebotomine Sand Flies in the State of Piauí, Brazil (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) José Dilermando Andrade Filho, Antônio Carlos Lima da Silva*, Alda Lima Falcão PAGE: 1085-1087

Seroprevalence of Viral Hepatitis in Riverine Communities from the Western Region of the Brazilian Amazon Basin VSde Paula, ME Arruda, CLVitral, AMC Gaspar PAGE: 1123-1128

Infestation of Rhynchopsyllus pulex (Siphonaptera: Tungidae) on Molossus molossus (Chiroptera) in Southestern Brazil Carlos Esbérard PAGE: 1169-1170

Evaluation of the Acarofauna of the Domiciliary Ecosystem in Juiz de Fora, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil Oscarina da Silva Ezequiel, Gilberto Salles Gazêta*, Marinete Amorim*, Nicolau Maués Serra-Freire* PAGE: 911-916

Seasonality and Relative Abundance of Tabanidae (Diptera) Captured on Horses in the Pantanal, Brazil AntonioThadeu M Barros PAGE: 917-923

Dengue Virus Type 3 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Rita Maria R Nogueira, Marize P Miagostovich, Ana Maria B de Filippis, Maria Aparecida S Pereira*, Hermann G Schatzmayr PAGE: 925-926

Identification of Entomopathogenic Bacillus Isolated from Simulium (Diptera, Simuliidae) Larvae and Adults CFG Cavados, RN Fonseca, JQ Chaves, L Rabinovitch, CJPC Araújo-Coutinho* PAGE: 1017-1021

The Marsupial Didelphis albiventris is an Improbable Host of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis in an Endemic Area of Paracoccidioidomycosis in Minas Gerais, Brazil ML Silva-Vergara, R Martinez*, MEB Malta*, LE Ramirez, FA Franco PAGE: 771-772

Sporotrichosis: an Emergent Zoonosis in Rio de Janeiro Mônica Bastos de Lima Barros, Tânia Maria Pacheco Schubach, Maria Clara Gutierrez Galhardo, Armando de Oliveira Schubach, Paulo Cezar Fialho Monteiro, Rosani Santos Reis, Rosely Maria Zancopé-Oliveira, Márcia dos Santos Lazéra, Tullia Cuzzi-Maya, Tânia Cristina Moita Blanco, Keyla Belizia Feldman Marzochi, Bodo Wanke, Antonio Carlos Francesconi do Valle PAGE: 777-779

Lutzomyia aldafalcaoae sp. n. a New Species of Phlebotominae (Diptera: Psychodidae) from Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil Soraya Oliveira Santos, José Dilermando Andrade Filho, Michael R Honer PAGE: 791-794

Mycobacterium bovis: Polymerase Chain Reaction Identification in Bovine Lymphonode Biopsies and Genotyping in Isolates from Southeast Brazil by Spolygotyping and Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism MS Zanini, EC Moreira, MTP Lopes, RS Oliveira, SC Leão, RL Fioravanti, E Roxo, M Zumarraga, MI Romano, A Cataldi, CE Salas PAGE: 809-813

Polygodial, the Fungitoxic Component from the Brazilian Medicinal Plant Polygonum punctatum Tânia Maria de Almeida Alves, Fabiane Lacerda Ribeiro, Helmut Kloos, Carlos Leomar Zani PAGE: 831-833

Report of Didymocystis wedli Ariola, 1902 (Digenea; Didymozoidae) from Thunnus albacares in Brazil A Kohn,AL Santos, MFD Baptista-Farias PAGE: 951-954

Trypanosoma evansi Control and Horse Mortality in the Brazilian Pantanal AF Seidl, AS Moraes*, RAMS Silva* PAGE: 599-602

Small Rodents Fleas from the Bubonic Plague Focus Located in the Serra dos Órgãos Mountain Range, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Raimundo Wilson de Carvalho, Nicolau Maués Serra-Freire, Pedro Marcos Linardi, Adilson Benedito de Almeida, Jeronimo Nunes da Costa PAGE: 603-609

Enteropathogens Associated with Diarrheal Disease in Infants of Poor Urban Areas of Porto Velho, Rondônia: a Preliminary Study Patrícia Puccinelli Orlandi, Tatiane Silva, Gleiciene Felix Magalhães,Fabiana Alves, Roberto Penna de Almeida Cunha, Rui Durlacher,Luiz Hildebrando Pereira da Silva PAGE: 621-625

Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii Infection in Goats by the Indirect Haemagglutination, Immunofluorescence and Immunoenzymatic Tests in the Region of Uberlândia, Brazil Josely F Figueiredo, Deise AO Silva, Dagmar D Cabral, José R Mineo PAGE: 687-692

Digenea and Acanthocephala of Elasmobranch Fishes from the Southern Coast of Brazil Marcelo Knoff, Sérgio Carmona de São Clemente*, Roberto Magalhães Pinto, Delir Corrêa Gomes PAGE: 1095-1101

Lista dos Exemplares Tipos de Ceratopogonidae (Diptera, Nematocera) Depositados na Coleção Entomológica do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil ML Felippe-Bauer, SJ de Oliveira* PAGE: 1109-1119

House Dust Mites in Brazil - An Annotated Bibliography Raquel S Binotti, João RO Muniz*, Ilma A Paschoal*, Angelo P do Prado, Celso H Oliveira* PAGE: 1177-1184

Dynamics of Haematobia irritans irritans (Diptera: Muscidae) Infestation on Nelore Cattle in the Pantanal, Brazil Antonio Thadeu M Barros PAGE: 445-450

Simulium cuasiexiguum, a New Blackfly Species (Diptera: Simuliidae) from the Minaçu Area in the State of Goiás, Central Brazil AJ Shelley, APA Luna Dias, M Maia-Herzog, CA Lowry, PR Garritano, M Penn, M Camargo PAGE: 483-496

Stomach Content Analyses of Simulium perflavum Roubaud 1906 (Diptera: Simuliidae) Larvae from Streams in Central Amazônia, Brazil Yamile B Alencar, Thelma A Veiga Ludwig, Climéia C Soares, Neusa Hamada PAGE: 561-576

Visceral Leishmaniasis in the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil Eduardo S Silva, Célia MF Gontijo, Raquel S Pacheco, Vanessa OP Fiuza, Reginaldo P Brazil PAGE: 285-291

Geographical Distribution of Biomphalaria Snails in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil Cecília Pereira de Souza, Roberta Lima Caldeira, Sandra Costa Drummond,Alan Lane Melo, Carlos Tito Guimarães, Delza de Moura Soares, Omar dos Santos Carvalho PAGE: 293-302

First Report of Lutzomyia (Nyssomyia) umbratilis Ward & Frahia, 1977 outside of Amazonian Region, in Recife, State of Pernambuco, Brazil (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) Valdir Q Balbino, Carlos B Marcondes, Bruce Alexander, Luciano KS Luna, Mônica MM Lucena, Antônio CS Mendes, Paulo P Andrade PAGE: 315-317

The Phlebotominae Sand Fly (Diptera: Psychodidae) Fauna of Two Atlantic Rain Forest Reserves in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Nataly A Souza, Claudia A Andrade-Coêlho, Maurício L Vilela, Elizabeth F Rangel PAGE: 319-324

A New Sand Fly, Lutzomyia campograndensis sp. n. (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) from the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil Alessandra Gutierrez de Oliveira, José Dilermando Andrade Filho*, Alda Lima Falcão*, Reginaldo Peçanha Brazil* PAGE: 325-329

Community Ecology of the Metazoan Parasites of White Croaker, Micropogonias furnieri (Osteichthyes: Sciaenidae), from the Coastal Zone of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Dimitri R Alves, José L Luque PAGE: 145-153

Respiratory Syncytial Virus Groups A and B in Porto Alegre, Brazil, from 1990 to 1995 and 1998 Selir M Straliotto, Sandra M Nestor, Marilda M Siqueira* PAGE: 155-158

Malaria Vectors in the Municipality of Serra do Navio, State of Amapá, Amazon Region, Brazil MM Póvoa, RA Wirtz*, RNL Lacerda, MA Miles**, D Warhurst** PAGE: 179-184

Pseudempleurosoma gibsoni n. sp., a New Ancyrocephalid Monogenean from Paralonchurus brasiliensis(Sciaenidae) from off the Southeastern Coast of Brazil Cláudia P Santos, Elizabeth D Mourão, Melissa Q Cárdenas PAGE: 215-219

Mutations in the rpoB Gene of Rifampicin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains Isolated in Brazil and France S Spindola de Miranda, AL Kritski, I Filliol, C Mabilat, G Panteix,E Drouet PAGE: 247-250

Hepatitis E Virus Infection in Selected Brazilian Populations Karen S Trinta*, Maria Isabel M Liberto*, Vanessa S de Paula, Clara FT Yoshida, Ana MC Gaspar PAGE: 25-29

Nova Espécie do Complexo oliveirai (Nova Denominação para o Complexo matogrossensis) (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae) do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil Rodolfo U Carcavallo, José Jurberg, Herman Lent, Cleber Galvão, Mário Steindel, Carlos José Carvalho Pinto PAGE: 71-79

Nematodes of Elasmobranch Fishes from the Southern Coast of Brazil Marcelo Knoff, Sérgio Carmona de São Clemente*, Roberto Magalhães Pinto, Delir Corrêa Gomes PAGE: 81-87

Ecology of Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Areas of Serra do Mar State Park, State of São Paulo, Brazil. III - Daily Biting Rhythms and Lunar Cycle Influence Anthony Érico Guimarães, Carla Gentile, Catarina Macedo Lopes, Rubens Pinto de Mello PAGE: 753-760

Monitoring the Domiciliary and Peridomiciliary Invasion Process of Triatoma rubrovaria in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Carlos Eduardo Almeida, Marcio Costa Vinhaes, Josimar Ribeiro de Almeida, Antonio Carlos Silveira, Jane Costa PAGE: 761-768

Vector Competence of Culex quinquefasciatus Say from Different Regions of Brazil to Dirofilaria immitis Silvia Maria Mendes Ahid , Pádua Suely da Silva Vasconcelos, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira* PAGE: 769-775

Molecular Epidemiology of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from Newborns in a Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil MM Loureiro, BA de Moraes, MRR Quadra, GS Pinheiro, PN Suffys, MD Asensi PAGE: 777-782

Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Homosexual and Bisexual Males from a Cohort of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Negative Volunteers (Project Horizonte), Belo Horizonte, Brazil L Lignani Jr, EI Oliveira, M Carneiro, M Greco, J Andrade, CM Antunes, DB Greco PAGE: 783-785

Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in Didelphis marsupialis in Santa Catarina and Arvoredo Islands, Southern Brazil Edmundo C Grisard, Carlos J Carvalho-Pinto, Afonso F Scholz, Helena K Toma, Bruno R Schlemper Jr, Mário Steindel PAGE: 795-800

Simulium (Psaroniocompsa) tergospinosum New Species (Diptera: Simuliidae) in siolii Group from the Southern Part of the State of Amazonas, Brazil Neusa Hamada PAGE: 819-828

Lutzomyia naftalekatzi, a New Species of Phlebotomine Sand Fly (Diptera: Psychodidae) from Zona da Mata Region, Pernambuco, Brazil Alda Lima Falcão, José Dilermando Andrade Filho, Francisco de Assis Almeida, Sinval P Brandão Filho PAGE: 843-848

Description of Males of Parabronema pecariae Ivaschkin, 1960 (Nematoda, Habronematoidea) Parasitizing Peccaries (Mammalia, Tayassuidae) in Brazil J Júlio Vicente, Luís C Muniz-Pereira, Dely Noronha, Roberto Magalhães Pinto PAGE: 849-851

Rabies in Tamarins (Callithrix jacchus) in the State of Ceará, Brazil, a Distinct Viral Variant? Nélio Batista-Morais, Benedito Neilson-Rolim, Humberto Hugo Matos-Chaves*, João de Brito-Neto*, Lúcia Maria-da-Silva PAGE: 609-610

Sylvatic Vectors Invading Houses and the Risk of Emergence of Cases of Chagas Disease in Salvador, State of Bahia, Northeast Brazil Artur G Dias-Lima, Ítalo A Sherlock PAGE: 611-613

Species and Serovars of the Genus Listeria lsolated from Different Sources in Brazil from 1971 to 1997 Ernesto Hofer, Rosmery Ribeiro, Deise Paranhos Feitosa PAGE: 615-620

Detection of Poxvirus in Cattle Associated with Human Cases in the State of Rio de Janeiro: Preliminary Report Hermann Gonçalves Schatzmayr, Elba Regina Sampaio de Lemos,Carlos Mazur, Armando Schubach, Selma Majerowicz, Tatiana Rozental, Tânia Maria Pacheco Schubach, Maria Cristina Bustamante,Ortrud Monika Barth PAGE: 625-627

Posterior Spiracles of Fourth Instar Larvae of Four Species of Phlebotomine Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) under Scanning Electron Microscopy Felipe Arley Costa Pessoa, Raul Guerra de Queiroz, Richard Douglas Ward* PAGE: 689-691

Coinfection by Strongyloides stercoralis in Blood Donors Infected with Human T-Cell Leukemia/Lymphoma Virus Type 1 in São Paulo City, Brazil Pedro P Chieffi, Carlos S Chiattone, Elder N Feltrim, Rita CS Alves, Maria A Paschoalotti PAGE: 711-712

Rearing of Lymnaea columella (Say, 1817), Intermediate Host of Fasciola hepatica (Linnaeus, 1758) Cecília Pereira de Souza, Kelly Grace Magalhães PAGE: 739-741

Risk Factors for Tuberculosis among Human Immunodeficiency Virus-infected Persons. A Case-control Study in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil (1985-1996) Antonio Carlos de Castro Toledo Jr., Dirceu Bartolomeu Greco,Carlos Maurício Figueiredo Antunes PAGE: 437-443

Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in Leontopithecus rosalia at the Reserva Biológica de Poço das Antas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Cristiane V Lisboa, James Dietz, Andrew J Baker, Nédia N Russel,Ana M Jansen PAGE: 445-452

A Review of the Ticks (Acari, Ixodida) of Brazil, Their Hosts and Geographic Distribution - 1. The State of Rio Grande do Sul, Southern Brazil DE Evans, JR Martins, AA Guglielmone PAGE: 453-470

Oswaldotrema nacinovici gen. nov. sp. nov. (Digenea: Philophthalmidae) from Numenius phaeopus (Aves: Scolopacidae) in Brazil Luís C Muniz-Pereira, Roberto Magalhães Pinto PAGE: 301-304

Studies on Populations of Lutzomyia longipalpis (Lutz & Neiva, 1912) (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) in Brazil Alfredo CR de Azevedo, Fernando A Monteiro, Pedro H Cabello,Nataly A de Souza, Maria Goreti Rosa-Freitas, Elizabeth F Rangel PAGE: 305-322

Biological Screening of Brazilian Medicinal Plants Tânia Maria de Almeida Alves, Andréia Fonseca Silva, Mitzi Brandão,Telma Sueli Mesquita Grandi, Elza de Fátima A Smânia,Artur Smânia Júnior, Carlos Leomar Zani PAGE: 367-373

Population Dynamics and Feeding Behavior of Triatoma brasiliensis and Triatoma pseudomaculata, Main Vectors of Chagas Disease in Northeastern Brazil Rodrigo Pedro Pinto Soares, Luciene das Graças Evangelista,Luciano Soares Laranja, Liléia Diotaiuti PAGE: 151-155

Redescription of Tejidotaenia appendiculata (Baylis, 1947) (Cestoda: Proteocephalidea), a Parasite ofTupinambis teguixin (Sauria: Teiidae) from South America Amilcar Arandas Rego, Alain de Chambrier PAGE: 161-165

Age Structure and Abundance in Populations of Muscoid Flies from a Poultry Facility in Southeast Brazil Rita MP Avancini, Gerson AR Silveira PAGE: 259-264

Ecology of Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Areas of Serra do Mar State Park, State of São Paulo, Brazil. I - Monthly Frequency and Climatic Factors Anthony Érico Guimarães, Rubens Pinto de Mello, Catarina Macedo Lopes, Carla Gentile PAGE: 1-16

Ecology of Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Areas of Serra do Mar State Park, State of São Paulo, Brazil. II - Habitat Distribution Anthony Érico Guimarães, Carla Gentile, Catarina Macedo Lopes,Rubens Pinto de Mello PAGE: 17-28

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Human Milk FR Novak, JAG Almeida, MB Warnken, BT Ferreira-Carvalho,AN Hagler PAGE: 29-33

A New Culicoides from The Amazonian Region, Brazil (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) Maria Luiza Felippe-Bauer, Rosana de S Veras, Eloy G Castellon,Nancy A Moreira PAGE: 35-37

A New Nematode Species (Seuratoidea, Cucullanidae) Parasitizing Parauchenipterus striatulus (Steindachner, 1876) (Pisces, Auchenipteridae) in Brazil Narcisa IB Moreira, Gilberto N Rocha, Hélio MA Costa PAGE: 39-41

The Fine Structure of the Endogenous Stages of Isospora hemidactyli Carini, 1936 in the Gecko Hemidactylus mabouia from North Brazil I Paperna,R Lainson PAGE: 43-47

Eimeria curvata n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) in Columbina talpacoti and Scardafella squammata (Aves: Columbidae) from Brazil Edson A Adriano,Patricia J Thyssen, Nelson S Cordeiro PAGE: 53-55

Further Studies on the Molecular Systematics of Biomphalaria Snails from Brazil Teofânia HDA Vidigal, Roberta Lima Caldeira, Andrew JG Simpson,Omar S Carvalho PAGE: 57-66

On Two Nematodes from Brazilian Birds and Description of a New Species (Acuarioidea, Schistorophinae) Parasitizing Laterallus viridis (Müller, 1776) (Gruiformes, Rallidae) Roberto Magalhães Pinto, Joaquim Júlio Vicente, Luís C Muniz-Pereira, Dely Noronha PAGE: 751-755

Larval Preference of Psaroniocompsa incrustata (Lutz, 1910) (Diptera: Simuliidae) for Different Colors of Artificial Substrates in Breeding Grounds, at Pium River, State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Jansen F Medeiros, Herbet TA Andrade, José C Hurtado Guerrero PAGE: 849-850

Survey of Canine Heartworm in the City of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil Leucio Câmara Alves , Leila Vânia de Almeida Silva, Maria Aparecida da Gloria Faustino, John Wilson McCall, Prasit Supakonderj, Norma Wolmer Labarthe, Milton Sanchez, Ortiz Caires PAGE: 587-590

Parasitism of Ixodes (Multidentatus) auritulus Neumann Márcia Arzua, Darci Moraes Barros-Battesti PAGE: 597-603

Intestinal Parasites of Some Diarrhoeic HIV-Seropositive Individuals in North Brazil, with Particular Reference toIsospora belli Wenyon, 1923 and Dientamoeba fragilis Jepps & Dobell, 1918 Ralph Lainson, Beatriz AM da Silva PAGE: 611-613

Redescription of Rhamnocercus stichospinus Seamster and Monaco, 1956 (Monogenea: Diplectanidae), Parasitic on Menticirrhus american Nilton N Chaves, José Luis Luque,Anderson D Cezar PAGE: 615-618

The Type Specimens of Sucking Lice (Anoplura) Deposited in the Entomological Collection of Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil Margareth Cardozo-de-Almeida, Pedro Marcos Linardi, Jane Costa PAGE: 625-628

Studies on Procamallanus (Spirocamallanus) pereirai Annereaux, 1946 (Nematoda: Camallanidae), with New Host Records and New Morphological Data on the Larval Stages Cláudia Portes Santos, Melissa Querido Cárdenas, Herman Lent PAGE: 635-640

Field Studies with the Bacterial Larvicide INPALBAC for Simulium spp. Control in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Lucia BLF Mardini, Maria Amelia T Souza, Leon Rabinovitch, Regina SA Alves, Claudia MB Silva PAGE: 679-681

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Seroprevalence among Inmates of the Penitentiary Complex of the Region of Campinas, State of São Paulo, Brazil Neusa Maria Osti, Antonio Fernando Pestana de Castro, Lucila Costallat Ricci PAGE: 479-483

Re-descriptions of Isospora ameivae Carini, 1932 in the Teiid Lizard Ameiva ameiva and Isospora hemidactyli Carini, 1936 in the Gecko Hemidactylus mabouia, with Particular Reference to thei R Lainson, I Paperna PAGE: 459-466

Protection against Toxoplasmosis in Mice Immunized with Different Antigens of Toxoplasma gondii Incorporated into Liposomes Mohamed MA Elsaid, Ricardo WA Vitor, Frederic JG Frézard, Maria S Martins PAGE: 485-490

Distribution of Sandflies (Diptera:Psychodidae) on Tree-trunks in a Non-flooded Area of the Ducke Forest Reserve, Manaus, AM, Brazil MRS Cabanillas, EG Castellón PAGE: 289-296

A Mitochondrial DNA Phylogeny Indicates Close Relationships between Populations of Lutzomyia whitmani (Diptera: Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) from the Rain-forest Regions of Amazônia and Northeast Brazil EAY Ishikawa, PD Ready, AA de Souza, JC Day, EF Rangel, CR Davies, JJ Shaw PAGE: 339-345

Comparison between Human Immunodeficiency Virus Positive and Negative Patients with Tuberculosis in Southern Brazil Lucélia Henn, Fabiano Nagel, Felipe Dal Pizzol PAGE: 377-381

Partial Lack of Susceptibility to Schistosoma mansoni Infection of Biomphalaria glabrata Strains from ltanhomi (Minas Gerais, Brazil) after Fourteen Years of Laboratory Maintenance Maria José Conceição,Acyr Corrêa, Andréa Teixeira, Débora C Moura, Osvaldo C Silva, Sônia CF Silva PAGE: 425-426

Peridomiciliary Infestation with Triatoma sordida Stal, 1859 in the County of Serra do Ramalho, Bahia, Brazil Herton Helder Rocha Pires, Érika Carime Borges, Regina Esteves de Andrade, Elias Seixas Lorosa, Liléia Diotaiuti PAGE: 147-149

Batflies Parasitic on Some Phyllostomid Bats in Southeastern Brazil: Parasitism Rates and Host-parasite Relationships Carlos A Komeno,Arício X Linhares PAGE: 151-156

Description of Pythonella scleruri n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from a Brazilian Bird Rufous-Breasted-Leaftosser Sclerurus scan Urara Kawazoe, Hélio Gouvêa PAGE: 157-159

Characterization of Rhodnius neglectus from Two Regions of Brazil Using Isoenzymes, Genitalia Morphology and Morphometry Rodrigo Pedro Pinto Soares, Silvia Ermelinda Barbosa,Jean-Pierre Dujardin, Christopher John Schofield, Ariovaldo Moura Siqueira, Liléia Diotaiuti PAGE: 161-166

The Seroprevalence of Equine Trypanosomosis in the Pantanal Alberto MR Dávila, Silvana S Souza, Cristiane Campos, Roberto Aguilar MS Silva PAGE: 199-202

Estimated Financial Impact of Trypanosoma vivax on the Brazilian Pantanal and Bolivian Lowlands Andrew Seidl, Alberto MR Dávila, Roberto AMS Silvarn PAGE: 269-272

High Rates of Positive Hemocultures in Children and Teenagers Seropositive for Trypanosoma cruzi in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Cloé D Fernandes, Fátima M Tiecher, Daniela D Fernandes, Nádia MP Henriques, Mário Steindel PAGE: 7-8

Identification of a Transmission Focus of Schistosoma mansoni in the Southernmost Brazilian State, Rio Grande do Sul Carlos Graeff-Teixeira, Celso B dos Anjos, Valderes C de Oliveira, Carlos FP Velloso, Maria Bernardete S da Fonseca, Cristiana Valar, Caroline Moraes, Cinara T Garrido, Ronaldo S do Amaral

Risk Factors for Human T Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type I among Injecting Drug Users in Northeast Brazil: Possibly Greater Efficiency of Male to Female Transmission Inês Dourado, Tarcísio Andrade, Catherine L Carpenter, Bernardo Galvão-Castro PAGE: 13-18

Is Lutzomyia intermedia (Lutz & Neiva, 1912) more Endophagic than Lutzomyia whitmani (Antunes & Coutinho, 1939) Because it is more Attracted to Light? Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Mara Cristina Pinto, Clive Davies PAGE: 21-22

Comparative Analysis by Polymerase Chain Reaction Amplified Minicircles of Kinetoplast DNA of a Stable Strain of Trypanosoma cruzi from São Felipe, Bahia, its Clones and Subclones: Possibility of Predominance of a Principal Clone in th Rozalia F Campos, Marilda S Gonçalves, Eliana AG dos Reis, Mitermayer G dos Reis, Sonia G Andrade PAGE: 23-29

Ophyra aenescens (L.) (Diptera: Muscidae) a New Biological Vector of Dermatobia hominis (L. Jr) (Diptera: Cuterebridae) in Minas Gerais, Brazil Z Rodríguez, RC Leite, PR Oliveira PAGE: 53-54

Insecticide Resistance in a Culex quinquefasciatus Strain from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Tania González, Juan A Bisset, Cristina Díaz, María M Rodríguez, Mauro Blanco Brandolini PAGE: 121-122

An Investigation on the Ecology of Triatoma vitticeps (Stal, 1859) and its Possible Role in the Transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi, in the Locality of Triunfo, Santa Maria Madalena Municipal District, State of Rio de Janeiro Teresa Cristina M Gonçalves, Edson de Oliveira, Lidiamara S Dias, Magaly D Almeida, Wagner O Nogueira, Fernando Dias de Ávila Pires PAGE: 711-717

Seroprevalence of Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in Students at the Seven-Fourteen Age Range, Londrina, PR, Brazil, in 1995 Ana Maria Bonametti, Adauto Castelo Filho, Luiz Roberto Ramos, Eide Dias Camargo, Paulo Mutuko Nakamura, José Luís da Silveira Baldy, Tiemi Matsuo PAGE: 727-732

Eimeria minasensis n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) in the Domestic Goat Capra hircus, from Brazil Andréa C Silva, José D Lima PAGE: 741-744

Fimbriaria fasciolaris and Cloacotaenia megalops (Eucestoda, Hymenolepididae), Cestodes from Brazilian Waterfowl Luís C Muniz-Pereira, Suzana B Amato PAGE: 767-772

Molecular Epidemiology of Den-2 Virus In Brazil MP Miagostovich, RMR Nogueira, HG Schatzmayr, RS Lanciotti PAGE: 625-626

Acanthocollaritrema umbilicatum Travassos, Freitas & Bührnheim, 1965 (Digenea: Acanthocollaritrematidae) from the Common Snook, Centropomus undecimalis, from Itamaracá, State of Pernambuco, Brazil Ricardo Berteaux Robaldo, Isaíras Pereira Padovan PAGE: 303-307

Cytokine Profile and Natural Killer Activity among Brazilian HIV-1-Infected Subjects AJS Duarte, MA Hong, LS Camargo, DF Nunes, A Carvalho, MN Sato,G Benard, LFM Brígido, J Casseb PAGE: 403-404

Retrospective Study on Dengue in Fortaleza, State of Ceará, Brazil RV da Cunha, MP Miagostovich, Z Petrola, ESM de Araújo, D Cortez, V Pombo, RV de Souza, RMR Nogueira, HG Schatzmayr PAGE: 155-159

Strongyloides stercoralis and other Enteroparasites in Children at Uberlândia City, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil Eleuza Rodrigues Machado, Julia Maria Costa-Cruz PAGE: 161-164

Amphimerus bragai N. Sp. (Digenea: Opisthorchiidae), a Parasite of the Rodent Nectomys squamipes (Cricetidae) from Minas Gerais, Brazil Antonio HA de Moraes Neto, Vernon E Thatcher, Reinalda M Lanfredi PAGE: 181-186

The Ultrastructure of the Gastrodermis and the Nutrition of the Gill Parasitic Atriaster heterodus Lebedev and Paruchin, 1969 (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea) Cláudia P Santos, Thais Souto-Padrón,Reinalda M Lanfredi PAGE: 277-282

Bovine Trypanosomiasis in Bolivian and Brazilian Lowlands Roberto Aguilar Machado Santos Silva, Angel Egüez, Gustavo Morales, Erick Eulert, Aurelio Montenegro , Ramón Ybañez, Andrew Seidl, Alberto Martín Rivera Dávila, Laura Ramirez PAGE: 29-32

First Report of Biomphalaria glabrata in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Omar dos Santos Carvalho, Izabel Michelin Nunes*, Roberta Lima Caldeira PAGE: 39-40

Rapid Elisa for Plague AM Araujo, ATS Petribú, GHTS Barbosa, JRP Diniz, AMP Almeida, LB Carvalho Jr PAGE: 111-112

Succession and Abundance of Staphylinidae in Cattle Dung in Uberlândia, Brazil Jorge Anderson Guimarães, Júlio Mendes PAGE: 127-131

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Control of Schistosomiasis Mansoni in Ravena (Sabará, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil) through Water Supply and Quadrennial Treatments Pedro Coura-Filho, Roberto Sena Rocha, Simone da Silva Lamartine, Márcio William C Farah, Dilermando Fazito de Resende, José Oswaldo Costa, Naftale Katz PAGE: 659-664

A Low Stringency Polymerase Chain Reaction Approach to the Identification of Biomphalaria glabrata and B. tenagophila, Intermediate Snail Hosts of Schistosoma mansoni in Brazil Teofânia HDA Vidigal, Emmanuel Dias Neto, Andrew JG Simpson,Omar S Carvalho PAGE: 739-744

Outbreak of Trypanosomiasis Due to Trypanosoma vivax (Ziemann, 1905) in Bovines of the Pantanal, Brazil Roberto Aguilar Machado Santos Silva, Joaquim Augusto da Silva, Rui Carlos Schneider, João de Freitas, Donizete Mesquita, Terezinha Mesquita, Laura Ramirez, Alberto Martín Rivera Dávila, Maria Eletícia Barbosa Pereira PAGE: 561-562

Ultrastructure of the Tegument of Prosorhynchoides arcuatus (Linton, 1900) Bray, 1984 (Trematoda, Bucephalidae) Simone C Cohen , Anna Kohn, Ortrud M Barth PAGE: 463-470

Nematode Parasites of Brazilian Piciformes Birds: a General Survey with Description of Procyrnea anterovulvatan. sp. (Habronematoidea, Habronematidae) Roberto Magalhães Pinto, J Júlio Vicente, Dely Noronha PAGE: 479-487

Structure and Diversity of Endoparasitic Infracommunities and the Trophic Level of Pseudoplatystoma corruscans and Schizodon borelli (Osteichthyes) of the High Paraná River Marion Haruko Machado, Gilberto Cezar Pavanelli, Ricardo Massato Takemoto PAGE: 441-448

The Haemoculture of Trypanosoma minasense Chagas, 1908 Mariangela Ziccardi, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira, Ricardo Nogueira PAGE: 501-505

A Nationwide Effort to Sistematically Monitor HIV-1 Diversity in Brazil: Preliminary Results B Galvão-Castro, JC Couto-Fernandez, MA Mello, MI Linhares-de-Carvalho, LR Castello-Branco, V Bongertz, PCP Ferreira, M Morgado, E Sabino, A Tanuri, the BrazilianNetwork for the HIV-1 Isolation and Characterization PAGE: 335-338

Polymorphism of the Pedictive Antigenic Sites on the V3 Loop of Brazilian HIV-1 Subtype B Strains MG Morgado, ML Guimarães, CBG Gripp, I Neves Jr, CI Costa, VG Veloso dos Santos, MI Linhares-de-Carvalho, B Galvão-Castro, V Bongertz, HEC/FIOCRUZ AIDS Clinical Research Group PAGE: 339-342

In Vitro Transfer of Cellular Immunity to Synthetic Peptides of HIV-1 to Human Lymphocytes with Exogenous RNA Valéria SF Sales, Fahim M Sawan, Maria AE Watanabe, João S Silva, Júlio C Voltarelli,Fernando L De Lucca PAGE: 349-350

Primary Isolation of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae from Amblyomma cooperi Collected from Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris in Brazil Elba Regina Sampaio de Lemos, Heloísa Helena Barbosa Melles, Sílvia Colombo, Raimundo Diogo Machado, José Rodrigues Coura, Maria Angélica Arpon Guimarães, Selênio R Sanseverino, Aline Moura PAGE: 273-275

Seasonality of Phaeotabanus fervens (Diptera: Tabanidae) in the Pantanal Region, Brazil Antonio Thadeu M Barros PAGE: 159

The Use of Polyvinyl Alcohol Glutaraldehyde as Solid-phase in ELISA for Plague Aureci Maria Araujo, André Tavares S Petribú, Gustavo Henrique T Sales Barbosa, José Ricardo P Diniz, Alzira MP de Almeida, Walter Mendes Azevedo, Elizabeth Malagueño, Luiz B Carvalho Jr PAGE: 195-198

Aspectos Bionômicos de Squamatoides trivittatus (Diptera, Sarcophagidae) sob Condições de Laboratório Ricardo JB Salviano, Rubens Pinto de Mello, Lilian CNH Beck, José Mario d'Almeida PAGE: 249-254

Synhimantus (Synhimantus) magnipapillatus n. sp. (Nematoda, Acuarioidea) from the Yellow-crowned Night-heron, Nyctanassa violacea cayennensis (Gmelin) (Aves, Ardeidae) J Júlio Vicente, Roberto Magalhães Pinto, Dely Noronha PAGE: 51-53

The Sand Fly Fauna (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) of a Focus of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Ilhéus, State of Bahia, Brazil Alfredo CR Azevedo, Maurício L Vilela, Nataly A Souza, Claudia A Andrade-Coelho, André F Barbosa, Antônio LS Firmo, Elizabeth F Rangel PAGE: 75-79

A decade of malaria during pregnancy in Brazil: what has been done concerning prevention and management Paola Marchesini, Fabio Trindade Maranhão Costa, Claudio Romero Farias Marinho PAGE: 706-708 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140047

Malaria in Brazil: what happens outside the Amazonian endemic region Anielle de Pina-Costa, Patrícia Brasil, Sílvia Maria Di Santi, Mariana Pereira de Araujo, Martha Cecilia Suárez-Mutis, Ana Carolina Faria e Silva Santelli, Joseli Oliveira-Ferreira, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira, Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro PAGE: 618-633 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140228

The Initial Epidemiological Studies in the Low Endemicity Schistosomiasis Area in Esteio, Rio Grande do Sul, the Southernmost Brazilian State, 1997 to 2000 Carlos Graeff-Teixeira, Cristiana Valar, Caroline K de Moraes, Adriana Mostardeiro Salvany, Charles de Ornellas Brum, Rafael Lucyk Maurer, Renata Ben, Lúcia BLF Mardini, Marta Bañolas Jobim, Ronaldo Santos do Amaral PAGE: 73-78

Freshwater Snails and Schistosomiasis Mansoni in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: V - Norte Fluminense Mesoregion Silvana C Thiengo, Aline C Mattos, M Fernanda Boaventura , Márcio S Loureiro, Sonia B Santos, Monica A Fernandez PAGE: 99-103

Rural Tourism as Risk Factor for the Transmission of Schistosomiasis in Minas Gerais, Brazil Martin J Enk, Roberta L Caldeira, Omar S Carvalho, Virginia T Schall PAGE: 105-108

A Pedagogical Approach of Schistosomiasis An Experience in Health Education in Minas Gerais, Brazil Cristiano Lara Massara, Virgínia Torres Schall PAGE: 113-119

Factors Associated with Schistosomiasis Mansoni in a Population from the Municipality of Jaboticatubas, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil Cristiano Lara Massara, Sérgio Viana Peixoto, Héliton da Silva Barros, Martin Johannes Enk, Omar dos Santos Carvalho, Virgínia Schall PAGE: 127-134

Paleopharmacology and Pollen: Theory, Method, and Application Sérgio Augusto de Miranda Chaves, Karl J Reinhard PAGE: 207-211

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Schistosomiasis Mansoni in Bananal (State of São Paulo, Brazil). III. Seroepidemiological Studies in the Palha District Fabiana Zacharias, Maria Esther de Carvalho, Cybele Gargioni, Horacio M Santana Teles, Cláudio S Ferreira, Valquíria R de Lima PAGE: 19-22

First Report on the Presence of Biomphalaria straminea in the Municipality of Jaboticatubas, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil Cristiano Lara Massara, Omar dos Santos Carvalho, Roberta Lima Caldeira, Liana Konovaloff Jannotti-Passos, Virgínia Torres Schall PAGE: 27-29

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

Freshwater Snails and Schistosomiasis Mansoni in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: III - Baixadas Mesoregion Silvana C Thiengo, Monica A Fernandez, M Fernanda Boaventura, Marcos G Magalhães, Sonia B Santos PAGE: 43-46

Susceptibility of Biomphalaria straminea (Dunker, 1848) from Serra da Mesa Dam, Goiás, Brazil to Infection with Three Strains of Schistosoma mansoni Sambon, 1907 Monica Ammon Fernandez, Silvana Carvalho Thiengo PAGE: 59-60

Schistosomiasis Mansoni in Bananal (State of São Paulo, Brazil). I. Efficiency of Diagnostic and Treatment Procedures Horacio Manuel Santana Teles, Maria Esther de Carvalho, Cláudio Santos Ferreira, Fabiana Zacharias, Valquíria Rosa de Lima, Maria Lucia Condino Fadel PAGE: 181-186

Information and Education in Schistosomiasis Control: an Analysis of the Situation in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil Virgínia Schall, Maria Cecília Pinto Diniz PAGE: 35-43

The Distribution of Biomphalaria spp. in Different Habitats in Relation to Physical, Biological, Water Contact and Cognitive Factors in a Rural Area in Minas Gerais, Brazil Helmut Kloos, Cecilia de Souza, Andrea Gazzinelli, Britaldo Silveira Soares Filho, Plinio da Costa Temba, Jeffrey Bethony, Kristen Page, Claudia Grzywacz, Fred Lewis, Dennis Minchella, Phillip LoVerde, Rodrigo Corrêa Oliveira PAGE: 57-66

Schistosomiasis mansoni is Asssociated with Pyogenic Liver Abscesses in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil Rosângela Teixeira, Francis Jardim Pfeilsticker, Giovanna DC Santa Cecília, Vandack Nobre, Lúcia Porto Fonseca, José Carlos Serufo, Paulo Marcos Zech Coelho, José Roberto Lambertucci PAGE: 143-146

Replacing Oxamniquine by Praziquantel against Schistosoma mansoni Infection in a Rural Community from the Sugar-cane Zone of Northeast Brazil: an Epidemiological Follow-up Lilian Beck, Tereza Cristina Favre, Otávio Sarmento Pieri, Luciana Carvalho Zani, Glauce Gajo Domas, Constança Simões Barbosa PAGE: 165-167

Specific Situations Related to Acute Schistosomiasis in Pernambuco, Brazil Constança Simões Barbosa, Silvia Maria Lucena Montenegro, Frederico Guilherme Coutinho Abath, Ana Lúcia Coutinho Domingues PAGE: 169-172

Possible Competitive Displacement of Planorbids by Melanoides tuberculata in Minas Gerais, Brazil Carlos Tito Guimarães, Cecília Pereira de Souza, Delza de Moura Soares PAGE: 173-176

Freshwater Snails and Schistosomiasis Mansoni in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: I - Metropolitan Mesoregion Silvana C Thiengo, Monica A Fernandez, M Fernanda Boaventura, Carlos E Grault, Heucler FR Silva, Aline C Mattos, Sonia B Santos PAGE: 177-184

Infection by Schistosoma mansoni Sambon 1907 in the First Four Months of Life of Biomphalaria straminea (Dunker, 1848) in Brazil Monica Ammon Fernandez, Otávio Sarmento Pieri PAGE: 185-192

The Oswaldo Cruz Institute and its Importance in the Brazilian Society. Perspectives for the 21st Century José Rodrigues Coura PAGE: 9-16

The Taxonomy of Brazilian Insects Vectors of Transmissible Diseases (1900-2000) - Then and Now Nelson Papavero, José Henrique Guimarães PAGE: 109-118

Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and Tropical Diseases: a Brazilian Perspective Mariza G Morgado, Christovam Barcellos, Maria de Fátima Pina, Francisco Inácio Bastos PAGE: 145-151

Simulium spp. Control Program in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Lucia Beatriz LF Mardini, Maria Amélia N Torres, Geraldo Lopes da Silveira, Ana Maria V Atz PAGE: 211-214

Serological detection of West Nile virus in horses and chicken from Pantanal, Brazil Vanessa Melandri; Anthony Érico Guimarães; Nicholas Komar; Maurício L Nogueira; Adriano Mondini; Ana Fernandez-Sesma; Jeronimo Alencar; Irene Bosch PAGE: 1073-1075 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000800020

Experimental benznidazole treatment of Trypanosoma cruzi II strains isolated from children of the Jequitinhonha Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil, with Chagas disease Jaquelline Carla Valamiel de Oliveira-Silva, Girley Francisco Machado-de-Assis, Maykon Tavares Oliveira, Nívia Carolina Noguieira Paiva, Márcio Sobreira Silva Araújo, Cláudia Martins Carneiro, Olindo Assis Martins-Filho, Helen Rodrigues Martins, Marta de Lana PAGE: 86-94 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760140260

Schistosomiasis Control in Brazil Naftale Katz PAGE: 33-35

Microgeographical Patterns of Schistosomiasis and Water Contact Behavior; Examples from Africa and Brazil Helmut Kloos*, Andréa Gazzinelli*/, Paul Van Zuyle** PAGE: 37-50

Evaluation of parasitological and molecular techniques for the diagnosis and assessment of cure of schistosomiasis mansoni in a low transmission area Liliane Maria Vidal Siqueira, Luciana Inácia Gomes, Edward Oliveira, Eduardo Ribeiro de Oliveira, Áureo Almeida de Oliveira, Martin Johannes Enk, Nídia Figueiredo Carneiro, Ana Rabello, Paulo Marcos Zech Coelho PAGE: 209-214 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760140375

A Survey of Freshwater Gastropods in the Microrregião Serrana of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Silvana C Thiengo, Monica A Fernandez, M Fernanda Boaventura, Marcelo A Stortti PAGE: 233-234

Colon Polyps in Schistosoma haematobium Schistosomiasis Celso Alberto Chassot*, Celso Guilherme Christiano**, Marcos Santos Barros***, Consuelo Junqueira Rodrigues**, Carlos Eduardo Pereira Corbett/ PAGE: 289-291

First report of autochthonous transmission of Zika virus in Brazil Camila Zanluca, Vanessa Campos Andrade de Melo, Ana Luiza Pamplona Mosimann, Glauco Igor Viana dos Santos, Claudia Nunes Duarte dos Santos, Kleber Luz PAGE: 569-572 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760150192

Draft genome sequences of three NDM-1-producing Enterobacteriaceae species isolated from Brazil Polyana Silva Pereira, Rodolpho Mattos Albano, Marise Dutra Asensi, Ana Paula D'Alincourt Carvalho-Assef PAGE: 580-582 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760150081

A Redescription of Riggia paranensis Szidat, 1948 (Isopoda, Cymothoidae) Based on Thirty-two Specimens from Curimatid Fish of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with an Emendation of the Genus Paula B Bastos, Vernon E Thatcher PAGE: 755-760

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Identification of the best ovitrap installation sites for gravid Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti in residences in Mirassol, state of São Paulo, Brazil Margareth Regina Dibo, Francisco Chiaravalloti-Neto, Marcos Battigaglia,Adriano Mondini, Eliane A Favaro, Angelita AC Barbosa, Carmen M Glasser PAGE: 339-343

The first confirmed case of Diphyllobothrium latum in Brazil FLN Santos, LB de Faro PAGE: 585-586

Development of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays based on recombinant MSP1a and MSP2 of Anaplasma marginale Flábio R Araújo, Valeska SP Melo, Carlos AN Ramos, Claudio R Madruga, Cleber O Soares, Raul H Kessler, Nalvo F Almeida, Graziela S Araújo, Leucio C Alves, Roberto AA Torres Júnior, Stênio P Fragoso, Paulo RC Arauco, Gisele Bacanelli, Maristeli B Oliveira, Lenita R Santos PAGE: 765-769

Ocurrence of co-infection by Leishmania (Leishmania) chagasi and Trypanosoma (Trypanozoon) evansi in a dog in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil Elisa San Martin Mouriz Savani, Vania Lúcia Brandão Nunes, Eunice Aparecida Bianchi Galati, Tiago Moreno Castilho, Fernando Shiroma de Araujo, Iêda Maria Novaes Ilha, Maria Cecília Gibrail de Oliveira Camargo, Sandra Regina Nicoletti D'Auria, Lucile Maria Floeter-Winter PAGE: 739-741

Dispersal pattern of the sand fly Lutzomyia neivai (Diptera: Psychodidae) in a cutaneous leishmaniasis endemic rural area in Southeastern Brazil Cláudio Casanova, Antonio IP Costa, Delsio Nata PAGE: 719-724

Lutzomyia longipalpis and the eco-epidemiology of American visceral leishmaniasis, with particular reference to Brazil - A Review Ralph Lainson, Elizabeth F Rangel PAGE: 811-827

Detection of dengue virus serotype 3 by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction in Aedes aegypti (Diptera, Culicidae) captured in Manaus, Amazonas Valéria CS Pinheiro, Wanderli P Tadei, Patrícia MSS Barros, Pedro FC Vasconcelos, Ana Cecília R Cruz PAGE: 833-839

Antibodies to Rickettsia rickettsii, Rickettsia typhi, Coxiella burnetii, Bartonella henselae, Bartonella quintana, and Ehrlichia chaffeensis among healthy population in Minas Paulo Sérgio Gonçalves da Costa, Marcos Emilio Brigatte, Dirceu Bartolomeu Greco PAGE: 853-859

Morphobiological aspects of Rhodnius brethesi Matta, 1919 (Hemiptera:Reduviidae) from the Upper and Middle Negro River, Amazon region of Brazil. I - Scanning electron microscopy Jacenir Reis dos Santos-Mallet, Angela Cristina Verissimo Junqueira, Carlos José de Carvalho Moreira, Zelia Andrade, José Rodrigues Coura, Teresa Cristina Monte Gonçalves PAGE: 915-923

Bionomics of Anopheles aquasalis Curry 1932, in Guaraí, State of Rio de Janeiro, Southeastern Brazil-I. Seasonal Distribution and Parity Rates Carmen Flores-Mendoza, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira PAGE: 265-270

Worm Burdens in Outbred and Inbred Laboratory Rats with Morphometric Data on Syphacia muris (Yamaguti, 1935) Yamaguti, 1941 (Nematoda, Oxyuroidea) Roberto Magalhães Pinto, Lucineide Gonçalves, Dely Noronha, Delir Corrêa Gomes PAGE: 133-136

Some Coccidial Parasites of the Lizard Amphisbaena alba (Reptilia: Amphisbaenia: Amphisbaenidae) Ralph Lainson PAGE: 927-936

Trypanorhynch Cestodes of Commercial Fishes from Northeast Brazilian Coastal Waters Harry W Palm PAGE: 69-79

A New Species of Hexathrombium Cooreman, 1944 Based on Parasitic Larva on Erotylids from Brazil (Acari: Eutrombidiidae) Ryszard Haitlinger PAGE: 81-83

Attempts to Improve Xenodiagnosis: Comparative Test of Sensibility Using Rhodnius neglectus, Panstrongylus megistus, Triatoma vitticeps and Triatoma infestans in Endemic Areas of Brazil Carlos José de Carvalho Moreira , Alina Perlowagora-Szumlewicz PAGE: 91-96

Re-evaluation of Schistosomiasis Mansoni in Minas Gerais, Brazil - II. Alto Paranaíba Mesoregion Omar S Carvalho , Cristiano L Massara, Horácio V Silveira Neto, Henrique L Guerra, Roberta L Caldeira, Cristiane LF Mendonça, Teofânia HDA Vidigal, Adelú Chaves, Naftale Katz PAGE: 141-142

Redescription of Prosthenhystera obesa (Diesing, 1850) (Callodistomidae, Digenea) with New Host Records and Data on Morphological Variability Anna Kohn, Berenice MM Fernandes,Maria de Fatima D Baptista-Farias PAGE: 171-179

Study of the Weight of Eggs from Six Ixodid Species from Brazil Marcelo Bahia Labruna , Romário Cerqueira Leite, Paulo Roberto de Oliveira PAGE: 205-207

Nematode Parasites of Brazilian Corvid Birds (Passeriformes): A General Survey with a Description of Viktorocara brasiliensis n. sp. (Acuariidae, Schistorophinae) Roberto Magalhães Pinto, J Júlio Vicente, Dely Noronha PAGE: 209-214

Egg Structures of Anopheles fluminensis and Anopheles shannoni LP Lounibos , D Duzak, JR Linley, R Lourenço-de-Oliveira PAGE: 221-232

First Record of Anopheles benarrochi Gabaldon, Cova Garcia & Lopez from the State of São Paulo, Southern Brazil Maria Anice Mureb Sallum, Eduardo Sterlino Bergo, Oswaldo Paulo Forattini PAGE: 233-234

Antibodies anti Bloodstream and Circumsporozoite Antigens (Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium malariae/P. brasilianum) in Areas of Very Low Malaria Endemicity in Brazil Izilda Curado , Ana Maria RC Duarte, Altaf A Lal, Salma G Oliveira, Judith K Kloetzel PAGE: 235-243

Notes on the Sand Fly Fauna (Diptera:Psychodidae) in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Edelberto Santos Dias, Alda Lima Falcão, João Evangelista da Silva PAGE: 329-332

Morphological and Biometrical Differences among Trypanosoma vivax Isolates from Brazil and Bolivia AMR Dávila, L Ramirez, RAMS Silva PAGE: 357-358

Paraorientatractis semiannulata n. g., n. sp. (Cosmocercoidea: Atractidae) from the Large Intestine of the SideNecked Turtle, Podocnemis unifilis Troschel, 1848 (Testudines: Pelomedusidae) in Brazil Lynda M Gibbons, LF Khalil, CJ Marinkelle PAGE: 359-364

The Infection Rates of Trypanosomes in Squirrel Monkeys at Two Sites in the Brazilian Amazon Mariangela Ziccardi, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira PAGE: 465-470

Rickettsiae-infected Ticks in an Endemic Area of Spotted Fever in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil Elba Regina Sampaio de Lemos, Raimundo Diogo Machado, Fernando Dias de Ávila Pires, Sérgio Lisboa Machado, Lígia Maria Cantarino da Costa, José Rodrigues Coura PAGE: 477-481

Measurements of Trypanosoma evansi from the Pantanal L Ramirez, AMR Dávila,AM Victório, RAMS Silva, V Trajano, AM Jansen PAGE: 483-484

Inosine triphosphatase allele frequency and association with ribavirin-induced anaemia in Brazilian patients receiving antiviral therapy for chronic hepatitis C Nathália Delvaux, Vanessa Duarte da Costa, Maristella Matos da Costa, Livia Melo Villar, Henrique Sérgio Moraes Coelho, Eliane Bordalo Cathalá Esberard, Priscila Pollo Flores, Carlos Eduardo Brandão-Mello, Cristiane Alves Villela-Nogueira, Adilson José de Almeida, Elisabeth Lampe PAGE: 636-643 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760150104

Draft genome sequence of a multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii ST15 (CC15) isolated from Brazil Thiago Pavoni Gomes Chagas, Melise Chaves Silveira, Rodolpho Mattos Albano, Ana Paula D'Alincourt Carvalho-Assef, Marise Dutra Asensi PAGE: 691-692 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760150158

A historical perspective on malaria control in Brazil Sean Michael Griffing, Pedro Luiz Tauil, Venkatachalam Udhayakumar, Luciana Silva-Flannery PAGE: 701-718 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760150041

Molecular characterisation of the NSP4 gene of group A human rotavirus G2P[4] strains circulating in São Paulo, Brazil, from 1994 and 2006 to 2010 <