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Home / Archives for Trends in Parasitology

Pneumocystis pneumonia in the COVID-19 pandemic era: similarities and challenges

  • Autores: Magdalena Szydłowicz, Olga Matos
  • Ano de Publicação: 2021
  • Journal: Trends in Parasitology, 37(10), pp 859 - 862
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2021.07.010

FORUM The clinical picture of the fungal disease, Pneumocystis pneumonia, resembles the course of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), presenting a diagnostic challenge in the pandemic era. We discuss the concern of Pneumocystis jirovecii and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) coinfection, their similarities, and the impact of immunosuppression, with a suggested diagnostic pathway for their suspected coinfection.   KEYWORDS Pneumocystis jirovecii; pneumonia; SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19.
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Ongoing host-shift speciation in Plasmodium simium

  • Autores: Thaís C. de Oliveira, Priscila T. Rodrigues, Ana Maria R.C. Duarte, Luísa D.P. Rona, Marcelo U. Ferreira
  • Ano de Publicação: 2021
  • Journal: Trends in Parasitology, 37(11), pp 940-942
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2021.08.005

Plasmodium simium, a malaria parasite that infects platyrrhine monkeys and humans in the New World, is nearly identical to Plasmodium vivax. Recent genomic comparative analyses of these sister species have identified elevated divergence in a gene that may underlie P. simium adaptation to non-human primates during its gradual speciation process.
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From the Laboratory to the Field: Updating Capacity Building in Medical Entomology

  • Autores: Almeida APG, Fouque F, Launois P, Silveira H, Sousa CA
  • Ano de Publicação: 2017
  • Journal: Trends in Parasitology
  • Link: http://www.cell.com/trends/parasitology/fulltext/S1471-4922(17)30134-4?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS1471492217301344%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

Training and innovation in the field of medical entomology are essential to mitigate the burden of vector-borne diseases globally. However, there is a shortage of medical entomologists worldwide, and there are large discrepancies in capacity building in this field. In this article, we discuss the current situation, what is needed from the medical entomologist of […]
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Can domestic cats be considered reservoir hosts of zoonotic leishmaniasis?

  • Autores: Campino L, Maia C
  • Journal: Trends in Parasitology
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Can+domestic+cats+be+considered+reservoir+hosts+of+zoonotic+leishmaniasis%3F

Canine and human zoonotic leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania infantum, which is transmitted by the bite of infected phlebotomine sand flies, is a serious public health problem in the Mediterranean basin and Latin America.
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