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Virulence factors, antimicrobial resistance, and plasmid content of Escherichia coli isolated in swine commercial farms
(2010) [Journal article]Os fatores de virulência e a resistência aos antimicrobianos foram avaliados em Escherichia coli. Um total de 80 isolados de E. coli, sendo 64 de amostras clínicas (conteúdo intestinal e fragmentos de órgãos de leitões ... -
Virulence profiles in Enterococcus spp. isolated from raw buffalo’s milk in south Brazil
(2017) [Journal article]Background and Objective: The buffalo milk consumption and derivatives have increased significantly in the last year due to the healthy food demand. Enterococci play a beneficial role during the maturation of some cheese ... -
Virulência e formação de biofilme microbiano por Enterococcus faecalis isolados de swabs cloacais de frangos de corte infectados com Eimeria spp.
(2013) [Journal article]A dinâmica da microbiota no trato gastrointestinal (TG) de animais pode ser afetada por patógenos, tais como Eimeria spp. Os enterococos são bactérias saprófitas que colonizam o TG de mamíferos e aves. A influência sobre ... -
Virulent T4 Acanthamoeba causing keratitis in a patient after swimming while wearing contact lenses in Southern Brazil
(2018) [Journal article]Several strains of free-living amoebae belonging to the genus Acanthamoeba can cause a painful sight-threatening disease of the cornea known as Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK). The numbers of AK cases keep rising worldwide ... -
Visual dysfunction of type I and VI mucopolysaccharidosis patients evaluated with visual evoked cortical potential
(2012) [Journal article]Purpose: To evaluate the visual system of patients suffering from type I or VI mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) by recording the visual evoked cortical potential (VECP). Methods: Two patients with MPS VI and 2 patients with MPS ... -
Vitamin A oral supplementation induces oxidative stress and suppresses IL-10 and HSP70 in skeletal muscle of trained rats
(2017) [Journal article]Exercise training intensity is the major variant that influences the relationship between exercise, redox balance, and immune response. Supplement intake is a common practice for oxidative stress prevention; the effects ... -
Vitamin D deficiency in girls from South Brazil : a cross-sectional study on prevalence and association with vitamin D receptor gene variants
(2012) [Journal article]Background: Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with a multitude of disorders including diabetes, defective insulin secretion as well as rickets and poor bone health. Vitamin D is also a concern during childhood and ... -
Você sabe o que é aquela mancha preta na sua parede?
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Você sabia que os microrganismos são capazes de se comunicar?
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Voice and vocal fold position in men with unilateral vocal fold paralysis
(2011) [Journal article]O posicionamento da prega vocal paralisada e o grau de disfonia são fatores importantes para decidir as opções de tratamento na paralisia de prega vocal unilateral (PPVU). Objetivo: Verificar as características ... -
Waterborne aripiprazole blunts the stress response in zebrafish
(2016) [Journal article]Here we provide, at least to our knowledge, the first evidence that aripiprazole (APPZ) in the water blunts the stress response of exposed fish in a concentration ten times lower than the concentration detected in the ... -
Waterborne risperidone decreases stress response in zebrafish
(2015) [Journal article]The presence of drugs and their metabolites in surface waters and municipal effluents has been reported in several studies, but its impacts on aquatic organisms are not yet well understood. This study investigated the ... -
Were sea level changes during the pleistocene in the south atlantic coastal plain a driver of speciation in Petunia (Solanaceae)?
(2015) [Journal article]Background: Quaternary climatic changes led to variations in sea level and these variations played a significant role in the generation of marine terrace deposits in the South Atlantic Coastal Plain. The main consequence ... -
What could be the fate of secondary contact zones between closely related plant species?
(2020) [Journal article]Interspecific hybridization has been fundamental in plant evolution. Nevertheless, the fate of hybrid zones throughout the generations remains poorly addressed. We analyzed a pair of recently diverged, interfertile, and ... -
What is new for an old molecule? : Systematic review and recommendations on the use of resveratrol
(2011) [Journal article]Background: Resveratrol is a natural compound suggested to have beneficial health effects. However, people are consuming resveratrol for this reason without having the adequate scientific evidence for its effects in humans. ... -
Where are the bats? An environmental complementarity analysis in a megadiverse country
(2020) [Journal article]Aim: Field surveys are necessary to overcome Wallacean shortfalls. The task is even more important when human pressure on tropical—megadiverse—ecosystems is con sidered. However, due to financial constraints, spatial and ... -
Which fish is this? Fishers know more than 100 fish species in megadiverse tropical rivers
(2022) [Journal article]Ethnobiological studies on folk, common, or popular names that fishers use to identify fish can help improve fisheries monitoring and collaborations between fishers and researchers. This study investigates fishers’ knowledge ... -
Which is the best in silico program for the Missense Variations in IDUA gene? A comparison of 33 programs plus a conservation score and evaluation of 586 missense variants
(2021) [Journal article]Mucopolysaccharidosis type I (MPS I) is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by the deficiency of alpha-L-iduronidase (IDUA), an enzyme involved in glycosaminoglycan degradation. More than 200 disease-causing ...