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Arleana do Bom Parto Ferreira de Almeida

Researcher at Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso

Publications -  86
Citations -  719

Arleana do Bom Parto Ferreira de Almeida is an academic researcher from Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso. The author has contributed to research in topics: Visceral leishmaniasis & Leishmaniasis. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 83 publications receiving 619 citations. Previous affiliations of Arleana do Bom Parto Ferreira de Almeida include Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.

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[Seroepidemiological survey of canine leishmaniasis in endemic areas of Cuiabá, State of Mato Grosso].

TL;DR: The main risk factors for occurrences of canine infection identified in the city of Cuiabá were the presence of dogs living in areas surrounding homes and the proximity of homes to forests, and there have been changes in leishmaniasis occurrences within the urban environment.
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Canine visceral leishmaniasis: diagnostic approaches based on polymerase chain reaction employing different biological samples.

TL;DR: The results showed that symptomatic cases were easily diagnosed when compared to asymptomatic animals; however, the PCR proved to be very useful for Leishmania DNA detection, mainly in lymph node aspirate, irrespective of the clinical status of the dog.
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Prevalência e epidemiologia da leishmaniose visceral em cães e humanos, na cidade de Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brasil

TL;DR: There was a diffuse distribution of the canine disease in the city of Cuiaba, in contrast to cases focused mainly on human in the northern municipality, which suggests risk throughout the municipality and further epidemiological studies should be carried out.
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Soroprevalência de anticorpos anti-Ehrlichia canis em cães de Cuiabá, Mato Grosso

TL;DR: The results confirm that do not have breed, sex or age predisposition to ehrlichiosis due E. canis, while the lowest occurrence of reactive dogs indoors probably related to low tick infestation, although no significant difference between dogs with or without infestation with the tick vector.
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Leishmania(Leishmania) chagasi in captive wild felids in Brazil.

TL;DR: A PCR-RFLP test was used to determine the presence of Leishmania (Leishmania) chagasi in 16 captive wild felids at the zoological park of the Federal University of Mato Grosso, Brazil, and the species was characterized as L. chagasia using restriction enzymes.