Publications

coexistence of antibodies to tick-borne agents of babesiosis and lyme borreliosis in patients from cotia county, state of são paulo, brazil.	this paper reports a case of coinfection caused by pathogens of lyme disease and babesiosis in brothers. this was the first case of borreliosis in brazil, acquired in cotia county, state of s o paulo, brazil. both children had tick bite history, presented erythema migrans, fever, arthralgia, mialgia, and developed positive serology (elisa and western-blotting) directed to borrelia burgdorferi g 39/40 and babesia bovis antigens, mainly of igm class antibodies, suggestive of acute disease. also, h ...	2003	12886408
babesia spp. infection in boophilus microplus engorged females and eggs in sao paulo state, brazil.	babesia spp. infections were investigated in bos taurus x bos indicus dairy cows and calves and in boophilus microplus engorged female ticks and eggs. blood samples and engorged female ticks were collected from 25 cows and 27 calves. babesia spp. was detected in ticks by microscopic examination of hemolymph of engorged female and by squashes of egg samples. cattle infection was investigated in blood thin smears and by dna amplification methods (pcr and nested pcr), using specific primers for bab ...	2005	15893070