Chagas disease, resulting from the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, is an important cause of heart failure, stroke, arrhythmia, and sudden death. Traditionally regarded as a tropical disease found only in ...

Hyperspectral imaging with enhanced darkfield microscopy (HSI-M) possesses unique advantages in its simplicity and non-invasiveness. In consideration of the urgent need for profound knowledge on the ...

The advent of modern antibiotics contributed enormously to the dramatic extension of human lifespan since their discovery by virtue of their lethal and selective action against pathogenic microbes ...

To the present day, intestinal parasitic infections represent an important public health problem worldwide, mainly in underdeveloped and developing countries. In this context, Brazil stands out, given ...

REVIEW Studies on protozoa in ancient remains - A Review Liesbeth Frías I; Daniela Leles II; Adauto Araújo I, + I Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública-Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil II Departamento ...

The clinical spectrum of intestinal E. histolytica infection ranges from an asymptomatic carrier state to severe invasive disease. Asymptomatic cyst carriage occurs with E. histolytica as well as ...

Apicomplexan protozoan parasite Babesia microti (Bm) and spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi are tick-transmitted pathogens that cause babesiosis and Lyme disease and increasingly cause coinfections. More ...