CV Lattes
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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia (FMVZ) (Institutional affiliation for the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduate at Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia from Universidade de São Paulo (1976), master's at Energia Nuclear na Agricultura from Universidade de São Paulo (1981) and ph.d. at Nuclear Engineering from Universidade de São Paulo (1989). Has experience in Veterinary Medicine, focusing on Parasitic Diseases of Animals, acting specially on the following subjects: Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum in domestic and wild animals. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Ocular toxoplasmosis is caused by Toxoplasma gondii, one of the parasites with the widest distribution in the world. Ocular infection, more precisely retinal, together with the resultant inflammatory reaction, is the mais manifestation of the disease in humans, and can lead to blindness even in immunocompetent individuals. One of the factors that can explain the increased prevalence and s…
The present project aims to study the epidemiological aspects of Toxoplasma gondii and other parasites from Sarcocystidae family from the Amazon region of Brazil. The Sarcocystidae family is divided into three subfamilies: Sarcocystinae, Cystoisosporinae and Toxoplasmatinae, the latter being a subfamily with few species grouped in the genera Toxoplasma, Neospora, and Hammondia Besnoitia, …
Recent studies have demonstrated the importance of wildlife in the epidemiology of toxoplasmosis in Brazil, however the approach of the research has been an epidemiological unidirectional focus (host - parasite). The parasitic cycle in the wild is much more complex that requires new approaches that allow inferences about the biological and ecological factors, and into triad parasite - pre…
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Toxoplasma gondii is a cosmopolitan protozoan (Filo Apicomplexa), an obligate intracellular parasite and has the capacity to infect a wide variety of mammals and birds (domestic and wild), including man, characterizing its zoonotic potential. Neospora caninum is an Apicomplexa protozoan that causes neuromuscular disease in dogs and miscarriages in cattle, possessing a wide variety of host…
Recently the Brazilian Ministry of Health published in the Official Gazette the decree No. 204 of 2016 February 17, that reinserts congenital toxoplasmosis in the list of weekly reportable diseases. The prevalence of toxoplasmosis vary from 20 to 90% in the global human population, with differences related to geographical aspects and assigned the risk factors that may vary between regio…
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The objectives of this proposal are to develop a new generation of genetic markers that can capture the diversity of T. gondii for molecular epidemiological and population genetic studies of the parasite and to develop a comprehensive set of genetic markers that will be used to map genomic regions responsible for T. gondii virulence. (AU)
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