| [natural infection of a pig (sus scrofa) by leishmania in a recent focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis on the island of são luis, maranhão]. | | 1987 | 3507563 |
| antithyroid effects in vivo and in vitro of babassu and mandioca: a staple food in goiter areas of brazil. | babassu (orbignya phalerata), a palm-tree coconut fruit, mixed with mandioca (manihot utilissima) is the staple food of people living in the endemic goiter area of maranhao in brazil, where goiter prevalence among schoolchildren was still 38% in 1986 despite an adequate iodine intake in most of the population. therefore, the question arose as to whether or not the ingestion of babassu alone or mixed with mandioca contributed to the persistence of endemic goiter in this area of brazil. in this in ... | 1994 | 8075782 |
| [blood feeding preference of lutzomyia whitmani (diptera, psychodidae) in a transmission area for american cutaneous leishmaniasis in the state of maranhão, brazil]. | the aim of this study was to determine the sources of blood meals for females of lutzomyia whitmani, a phlebotomine species incriminated as the main vector for american cutaneous leishmaniasis in maranhão. for this, 70 lutzomyia whitmani females were collected in the municipality of axixá, an area with one of the greatest numbers of cases of american cutaneous leishmaniasis in humans in maranhão. they were analyzed using the precipitin technique. ninety percent of the specimens showed a reaction ... | 2009 | 20209348 |