Toxoplasmosis in Brazil
Brazil’s obsession with toxoplasmosis is difficult to explain. The term, “Toxoplasma” appears in 0.363% of all Brazilian publications indexed on PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed – as compared to 0.086% of publications from the United States. Abstracts from Gideon www.GideonOnline.com summarize 120 relevant surveys / serosurveys from Brazil, but only 19 from the combined literature of neighboring Bolivia, Argentina and Venezuela (only 38 from the United States). Strikingly, there have been only 37 Brazilian surveys of HIV infection, and only 9 of dengue as of 2013.
The following list of Brazi...
Source: GIDEON blog - June 30, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology ProMED Brazil Toxoplasmosis Source Type: blogs
Answer to Case 259
Answer: Culicine mosquito larvaeYou can place these mosquito larvae in the Culicinae subfamily due to the presence of respiratory siphons that allow them to hang below the water at an angle and breathe the oxygen above:This is in contrast to anopheline mosquitoes (Anophelinae subfamily) who do not have a respiratory siphon and instead rest parallel to the surface of the water, breathing through their tail. The Culicinae subfamily includes the genera Aedes, Culex, and Culiseta. Different species in these genera transmit a number of viruses and parasites, including yellow fever, dengue, West Nile ...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - May 26, 2013 Category: Pathologists Source Type: blogs
How Drug Companies Keep Medicine Out of Reach - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/05/how-drug-companies-keep-medicine-out-of-reach/275853/?ReutersFor almost a decade, the United States has been standing in the way of an idea that could lead to cures for some of the world's most devastating illnesses. The class of maladies is known as neglected diseases, and they almost exclusively affect those in the developing world. The same idea, if realized, might also be used in more affluent nations to goad the pharmaceutical industry into producing critical innovations that the free market has yet to produce - things like new antibiotics, which are likely to be used ...
Source: PharmaGossip - May 15, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
TWiV 228: Cal Bears go viral
On episode #228 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent visits the University of California at Berkeley and speaks with Britt Glaunsinger and Eva Harris about their work on Kaposi’s sarcoma associated herpesvirus and dengue virus.
You can find TWiV #228 at www.twiv.tv. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - April 14, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology Britt Glaunsinger Dengue Eva Harris hemorrhagic fever HHV-8 kaposi's sarcoma associated herpesvirus kshv mRNA degradation shock syndrome SOX viral Xrn1 Source Type: blogs
GM Mosquitoes Designed to Kill Local Mosquito Populations
Malaria, dengue fever, and a good deal of other diseases transmitted by mosquitoes have been killing people for millenia. Methods like environmental chemical spraying, mosquito nets, and DEET are essentially bandages for a much deeper problem. Here’s Hadyn Parry, CEO of Oxitec, at TEDSalon London, talking about how his company is using genetically modified mosquitoes to infiltrate native populations and render them effectively sterile: Read More (Source: Medgadget)
Source: Medgadget - January 3, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Gene Ostrovsky Tags: Public Health Source Type: blogs
