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Luiz Shozo Ozaki
Researcher at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Publications - 14
Citations - 419
Luiz Shozo Ozaki is an academic researcher from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. The author has contributed to research in topics: Babesia bovis & Restriction fragment length polymorphism. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 14 publications receiving 397 citations.
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Cloning and functional expression of a Boophilus microplus cathepsin L-like enzyme.
Gaby Renard,José Fernando Garcia,Felipe C. Cardoso,Marc François Richter,Judy A. Sakanari,Luiz Shozo Ozaki,Carlos Termignoni,Aoi Masuda +7 more
TL;DR: A cysteine proteinase gene homologous to cathepsins L genes was isolated from a B. microplus cDNA library and its optimal enzymatic activity on both fluorogenic and protein substrates was found to occur at an acidic pH.
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Detection of Babesia equi (Laveran, 1901) by nested polymerase chain reaction.
T.B. Nicolaiewsky,M.F. Richter,Vagner Ricardo Lunge,Cristina W. Cunha,Cristina W. Cunha,O Delagostin,Nilo Ikuta,A. S. K. Fonseca,S.S. da Silva,S.S. da Silva,Luiz Shozo Ozaki +10 more
TL;DR: The results demonstrate that the ema-1 based nested PCR is a valuable technique for routine detection of B. equi in chronically infected horses and may be used for epidemiological and phylogenetic studies of the parasite.
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Hepatitis C virus genotypes in Southern Brazil.
L.P Krug,Vagner Ricardo Lunge,Nilo Ikuta,André Salvador Kazantzi Fonseca,Hugo Cheinquer,Luiz Shozo Ozaki,S.G.S Barros +6 more
TL;DR: The prevalence of hepatitis C virus genotypes in Southern Brazil was studied in the plasma of 100 HCV-RNA-positive patients attended in Porto Alegre, South of Brazil, with an unusual high prevalence of genotype 3.
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A study on the pathogenesis of human cerebral malaria and cerebral babesiosis
Masamichi Aikawa,Emsri Pongponratn,Tatsuya Tegoshi,Kei-ichiro Nakamura,Tsuyoshi Nagatake,Alan H. Cochrane,Luiz Shozo Ozaki +6 more
TL;DR: Findings indicate that cerebral pathology caused by B. bovis is similar to human cerebral malaria, and a search for cytoadherence proteins in the endothelial cells of cattle may lead to a better understanding of the pathogenesis of cerebral babesiosis.
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Serum of Boophilus microplus infested cattle reacts with different tick tissues.
TL;DR: Results suggest that common antigens are present in different tissues of B. microplus and their humoral immune response to salivary gland, gut, embryo and larval extracts during infestation was determined.