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José Antonio Guimarães Aleixo
Researcher at Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Publications - 49
Citations - 987
José Antonio Guimarães Aleixo is an academic researcher from Universidade Federal de Pelotas. The author has contributed to research in topics: Leptospira & Salmonella. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 48 publications receiving 931 citations. Previous affiliations of José Antonio Guimarães Aleixo include Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte & Purdue University.
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A LigA three-domain region protects hamsters from lethal infection by Leptospira interrogans.
Mariana L. Coutinho,Henry A. Choy,Henry A. Choy,Melissa M. Kelley,James Matsunaga,James Matsunaga,Jane T. Babbitt,Jane T. Babbitt,Michael S. Lewis,José Antonio Guimarães Aleixo,David A. Haake +10 more
TL;DR: The Big domains of LigA are defined that account for its vaccine efficacy and highlight the need for additional strategies to achieve sterilizing immunity to protect the mammalian host from leptospiral infection and its consequences.
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Microbiologia de queijo tipo Minas Frescal produzido artesanalmente
TL;DR: To evaluate the hygienic-sanitary quality, thirty samples of the homemade "Minas Frescal" cheese were obtained from two places of commercialization in Cuiaba - MT, Brazil during two months and the sanitary authorities should carefully consider the permission of the production and commercialization of this product.
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Condições higiênico-sanitárias no comércio ambulante de alimentos em Pelotas-RS
Kelly Lameiro Rodrigues,Juliana Pinto Gomes,Rita de Cássia dos Santos da Conceição,Claudiomar Soares Brod,José Beiro Carvalhal,José Antonio Guimarães Aleixo +5 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that the hygiene practices of many food street-vending places are not adequate, resulting in a high proportion of read-to-eat RTE) foods with microbiological quality unsatisfactory for consumption.
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Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) isolated from healthy dairy cattle in southern Brazil.
Cecília N. Moreira,Murilo A. Pereira,Claudiomar Soares Brod,Dália dos Prazeres Rodrigues,José Beiro Carvalhal,José Antonio Guimarães Aleixo +5 more
TL;DR: Dairy cattle from the region surveyed may be a source of STEC potentially pathogenic for humans, and results indicate that the production of verotoxin was investigated in 1127 Escherichia coli isolated from 243 dairy cattle in southern Brazil.
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Atypical American visceral leishmaniasis caused by disseminated Leishmania amazonensis infection presenting with hepatitis and adenopathy.
José Antonio Guimarães Aleixo,Eliana T. Nascimento,Gloria R. Monteiro,Maria Zélia Fernandes,Afonso Mota Ramos,Mary E. Wilson,Richard D. Pearson,Selma M. B. Jeronimo +7 more
TL;DR: The patient, an 8-year-old Brazilian boy, presented with a febrile illness and hepatosplenomegaly, elevated liver enzymes and generalised adenopathy, which was eventually isolated in a culture of a lymph node and the patient recovered fully after treatment with meglumine antimoniate.