CV Lattes
Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto (EERP) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduate at Ciências Biológicas from Centro Universitário Adventista de São Paulo (2006). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Ticks are important vectors of diseases to humans and animals and promote significant losses in the cattle production sector, while also induce expressive inconvenience to dogs owners. The control of tick infestations has been done with acaricides, but the selection of resistant parasites and environmental contamination point towards the need for alternative methods of control. Currently …
Leishmania ssp. are protozoan parasites transmitted to vertebrates by the bite of female phlebotomine insects. They have two main forms in their life cycle: promastigotes and amastigotes. The amastigotes live preferably in macrophages, "professional phagocytes" capable of destroying pathogens. They are able to circumvent the microbicidal activity of macrophages, survive and multiply insid…
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