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Silveira H

Gut Microbiota Elicits a Protective Immune Response against Malaria Transmission

  • Autores: Chong AS, Cowan PJ, Crompton PD, d’Apice JPA, Doumbo OK, Gomes J, Gozzelino R, Portugal S, Ramos S, Regalo A, Silveira H, Soares MP, Tran TM, Traore B, Yilmaz B
  • Ano de Publicação: 2014
  • Journal: Cell
  • Link: http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(14)01425-1

Glycosylation processes are under high natural selection pressure, presumably because these can modulate resistance to infection. Here, we asked whether inactivation of the UDP-galactose:β-galactoside-α1-3-galactosyltransferase (α1,3GT) gene, which ablated the expression of the Galα1-3Galβ1-4GlcNAc-R (α-gal) glycan and allowed for the production of anti-α-gal antibodies (Abs) in humans, confers protection against Plasmodium spp. infection, the causative agent of malaria and a major driving force in human evolution.
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Trypanosoma cruzi IV causing outbreaks of acute Chagas disease and infections by different haplotypes in the Western Brazilian Amazonia.

  • Autores: Barbosa Md, Borges L, de Sá AR, Gomes ML, Guerra JA, Magalhaes LK, Monteiro WM, Pires I, Silveira H, Toledo MJ
  • Ano de Publicação: 2012
  • Journal: PLoS One
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Trypanosoma+cruzi+IV+Causing+Outbreaks+of+Acute+Chagas+Disease+and+Infections+by+Different+Haplotypes+in+the+Western+Brazilian+Amazonia.

BACKGROUND:
Chagas disease is an emergent tropical disease in the Brazilian Amazon Region, with an increasing number of cases in recent decades. In this region, the sylvatic cycle of Trypanosoma cruzi transmission, which constitutes a reservoir of parasites that might be associated with specific molecular, epidemiological and clinical traits, has been little explored.
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. In vitro chloroquine resistance for Plasmodium vivax isolates from the Western Brazilian Amazon

  • Autores: Alecrim MG, Brasil LW, Chehuan YF, Costa JS, Costa MR, Lacerda MV, Melo GC, Monteiro WM, Nogueira F, Silveira H
  • Ano de Publicação: 2013
  • Journal: Malaria Journal
  • Link: http://www.malariajournal.com/content/12/1/226

Chloroquine (CQ) and primaquine (PQ) are still the drugs of choice to treat Plasmodium vivax malaria in many endemic areas, Brazil included. There is in vivo evidence for the P. vivax resistance to CQ in the Brazilian Amazon, where the increase in the proportion of P. vivax malaria parallels the increase of unusual clinical complications related to this species. In this study, in vitro CQ and mefloquine (MQ)-susceptibility of P. vivax isolates from the Western Brazilian Amazon was tested using the double-site enzyme-linked lactate dehydrogenase immunodetection (DELI) assay.
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Plasmodium vivax chloroquine resistance and anemia in the western Brazilian Amazon

  • Autores: Alecrim MG, Brasil LW, Costa MR, Lacerda MV, Marques MM, Monteiro WM, Nascimento MT, Nogueira F, Reyes-Lecca RC, Santana Filho FS, Silveira H, Vieira JL
  • Ano de Publicação: 2014
  • Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother
  • Link: http://aac.asm.org/content/early/2013/10/22/AAC.02279-12

In Latin America, data on chloroquine (CQ)-resistant Plasmodium vivax is limited, even with the current research efforts to sustain an efficient malaria control program in all these endemic countries, where malaria still is a major public health issue.
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The interplay between tubulins and P450 cytochromes during Plasmodium berghei invasion of Anopheles gambiae midgut.

  • Autores: Felix RC, Silveira H
  • Ano de Publicação: 2011
  • Journal: PLoS One
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=The+interplay+between+tubulins+and+P450+cytochromes+during+Plasmodium+berghei+invasion+of+Anopheles+gambiae+midgut.

BACKGROUND:
Plasmodium infection increases the oxidative stress inside the mosquito, leading to a significant alteration on transcription of Anopheles gambiae detoxification genes. Among these detoxification genes several P450 cytochromes and tubulins were differently expressed, suggesting their involvement in the mosquito’s response to parasite invasion.
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Trypanosoma cruzi I and IV Stocks from Brazilian Amazon Are Divergent in Terms of Biological and Medical Properties in Mice

  • Autores: Bahia MT, Costa Magalhaes LK, de Oliveira Guerra JA, de Ornelas Toledo MJ, dos Reis D, Gomes ML, Gruendling AP, Margioto Teston AP, Marques de Araújo S, Monteiro WM, Silveira H, Vale Barbosa MdG
  • Ano de Publicação: 2013
  • Journal: Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • Link: http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0002069

In the Brazilian Amazon, clinical and epidemiological frameworks of Chagas disease are very dissimilar in relation to the endemic classical areas of transmission, possibly due to genetic and biological characteristics of the circulating Trypanosoma cruzi stocks. Twenty six T. cruzi stocks from Western Amazon Region attributed to the TcI and TcIV DTUs were comparatively studied in Swiss mice to test the hypothesis that T. cruzi clonal structure has a major impact on its biological and medical properties.
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Mucosal Leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis and Leishmania (Viannia) guyanensis in the Brazilian Amazon.

  • Autores: Amato V, Barbosa Md, Coelho LI, Ferreira LC, Gama P, Guerra JA, Moura A, Prestes SR, Silveira H
  • Ano de Publicação: 2011
  • Journal: Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Mucosal+Leishmaniasis+caused+by+Leishmania+(Viannia)+braziliensis+and+Leishmania+(Viannia)+guyanensis+in+the+Brazilian+Amazon

BACKGROUND:
Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis is a parasite recognized as the most important etiologic agent of mucosal leishmaniasis (ML) in the New World. In Amazonia, seven different species of Leishmania, etiologic agents of human Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, have been described. Isolated cases of ML have been described for several different species of Leishmania: L. (V.) panamensis, L. (V.) guyanensis and L. (L.) amazonensis.
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Plasmodium infection alters Anopheles gambiae detoxification gene expression

  • Autores: Felix RC, Müller P, Ranson H, Ribeiro V, Silveira H
  • Ano de Publicação: 2010
  • Journal: BMC Genomics
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Plasmodium+infection+alters+Anopheles+gambiae+detoxification+gene+expression

BACKGROUND: Anopheles gambiae has been shown to change its global gene expression patterns upon Plasmodium infection. While many alterations are directly related to the mosquito’s innate immune response, parasite invasion is also expected to generate toxic by-products such as free radicals. The current study aimed at identifying which loci coding for detoxification enzymes are differentially […]
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CpG-containing oligodeoxynucleotides increases resistance of Anopheles mosquitoes to Plasmodium infection.

  • Autores: Collins LV, Custodio A, Felix R, Gabriel A, Palma J, Ramos S, Silveira H
  • Ano de Publicação: 2012
  • Journal: Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=CpG-containing+oligodeoxynucleotides+increases+resistance+of+Anopheles+mosquitoes+to+Plasmodium+infection

Unmethylated CpG dinucleotide motifs in bacterial DNA or in synthetic oligodeoxynucleotides (ODN) are potent stimulators of the vertebrate innate immune system. However, the potential of these DNA species to modulate mosquito immunity have not been explored. In the present study, we investigated the effects of CpG-ODN on the outcome of Plasmodium infection in insects and on the modulation of mosquito immunity to Plasmodium.
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In vitro chloroquine resistance for Plasmodium vivax isolates from the Western Brazilian Amazon

  • Autores: Alecrim MG, Brasil LW, Chehuan YF, Costa JS, Costa MR, Lacerda MV, Melo GC, Monteiro WM, Nogueira F, Silveira H
  • Ano de Publicação: 2013
  • Journal: Malaria Journal
  • Link: http://www.malariajournal.com/content/12/1/226

Chloroquine (CQ) and primaquine (PQ) are still the drugs of choice to treat Plasmodium vivax malaria in many endemic areas, Brazil included. There is in vivo evidence for the P. vivax resistance to CQ in the Brazilian Amazon, where the increase in the proportion of P. vivax malaria parallels the increase of unusual clinical complications related to this species. In this study, in vitro CQ and mefloquine (MQ)-susceptibility of P. vivax isolates from the Western Brazilian Amazon was tested using the double-site enzyme-linked lactate dehydrogenase immunodetection (DELI) assay.
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