Carlos Henrique Aguiar CostaInstituto Leônidas e Maria Deane - ILMD · Ecologia de Doenças Transmissíveis da Amazônia - EDTA
Carlos Henrique Aguiar Costa
PhD
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Introduction
Currently working in my PhD project with filariasis from mansonella genus.
Publications
Publications (6)
The pied tamarin, or Saguinus bicolor, is a callitrichid that inhabits Amazon Forest fragments encased within the municipalities of Manaus, Rio Preto da Eva and Itacoatiara and their outskirts, suffering critical danger of extinction by ongoing anthropogenic pressionswith habitat fragmentation being the most prominent threat.Greater conservation ef...
The primates that inhabit the rainforest surrounding the city of Manaus (Amazonas, Brazil) have long been recognised as potentially important reservoirs of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases (ERIDs). PCR amplification of filarial sequences from wild-caught Simulium oyapockense has been used to incriminate potentially important Amazon-regi...
Objective
To assess the emergent zoonotic disease risk posed by the voracious human-biting blackfly species Simulium oyapockense in the peripheral regions of an expanding urban centre situated deep in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.
Methods
We performed nine human landing catches at three periurban sites surrounding the Brazilian Amazon town of S...
Mansonella ozzardi and Mansonella perstans infections both cause mansonellosis, but are usually treated differently. Using a real-time PCR assay and deep-sequencing, we reveal the presence of mansonellosis co-infections that were undetectable by standard diagnostic methods. Our results confirm mansonellosis co-infections and have important implicat...
Mansonella ozzardi and Mansonella perstans infections both cause mansonellosis, but are usually treated differently. Using a real-time PCR assay and deep-sequencing, we reveal the presence of mansonellosis co-infections that were undetectable by standard diagnostic methods. Our results confirm mansonellosis co-infections and have important implicat...
