Erratum: Cuban parasitology in review: a revolutionary triumph. Trends Parasitol. 24 (10) (2008) 440-448 (DOI:10.1016/j.pt.2008.06.008);Cuban parasitology in review: a revolutionary triumph

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 440-448

  Rivero, Lázara Rojas ^a   Fernández, Fidel Angel Núñez ^a   Robertson, Lucy J ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL PEDRO KOURÍ   (Cuba)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUBA; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; JAMAICA; LEISHMANIASIS; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; PARASITOSIS; REVIEW; SPAIN; TROPICAL DISEASE;

EID: 51649130344     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2008.11.001     Document Type: Erratum

References (66)

1. Llop, A. et al. eds (2001) Microbiología y Parasitología Médicas. Tomo III. Ciudad de La Habana: Editorial de Ciencias Médicas. (in Spanish)
2. De Vos P., et al. Cuba's international cooperation in health: an overview. Int. J. Health Serv. 37 (2007) 761-776
3. Spiegel J.M., et al. Promoting health in response to global tourism expansion in Cuba. Health Promot. Int. 23 (2008) 60-69
4. Rojas L., et al. Avances más recientes en el desarrollo de vacunas contra la malaria. Rev. Panam. Salud Publica 17 (2005) 142-146 (in Spanish)
5. Wordemann M., et al. Prevalence and risk factors of intestinal parasites in Cuban children. Trop. Med. Int. Health 11 (2006) 1813-1820
6. Escobedo A.A., et al. Intestinal protozoan and helminth infections in the Municipality San Juan y Martínez, Pinar del Río, Cuba. Trop. Doct. 37 (2007) 236-238
7. Núñez F.A., et al. Longitudinal study of giardiasis in three day care centres of Havana city. Acta Trop. 73 (1999) 237-242
8. Gómez Vital M., et al. Parasitismo exótico en becarios extranjeros. Rev. Cubana Med. Gen. Integr. 15 (1999) 415-418 (in Spanish; English abstract)
9. Rodriguez, F.V. et al. Child health in Cuba. Arch. Dis. Child. (in press)
10. de Arazoza H., et al. The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Cuba: description and tentative explanation of its low HIV prevalence. BMC Infect. Dis. 7 (2007) 130-135
11. Lloyd-Smith J.O., et al. HIV-1/parasite co-infection and the emergence of new parasite strains. Parasitology 135 (2008) 795-806
12. Núñez F.A., et al. Parasitosis intestinales en niños ingresados en el Hospital Universitario Pediátrico del Cerro, La Habana. Cuba. Rev. Cub. Med. Trop. 55 (2003) 19-26 (in Spanish; English abstract)
13. Núñez F.A., et al. Intestinal coccidia in Cuban pediatric patients with diarrhea. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro 98 (2003) 539-542
14. Escobedo A.A., and Núñez F.A. Prevalence of intestinal parasites in Cuban acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients. Acta Trop. 72 (1999) 125-130
15. Santana M., et al. Emergencia de un nuevo patógeno: Cyclospora cayetanensis en pacientes infectados por el virus de inmunodeficiencia humana. Rev. Cub. Med. Trop. 52 (2000) 66-69 (in Spanish; English abstract)
16. Pelayo, L. et al. Molecular and epidemiological investigations of cryptosporidiosis in Cuban children. Ann. Trop. Med. Parasit. (in press)
17. Núñez F.A., et al. Factores de riesgo de la infección por Giardia lamblia en niños de guarderías infantiles de Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba. Cad. Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro 19 (2003) 109-118 (in Spanish)
18. Bouza M., et al. Giardia lamblia in Mongolian gerbils: characteristics of infection using different human isolates. Exp. Parasitol. 96 (2000) 43-46
19. Pelayo L., et al. Genetic characterization by random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis (RAPD) of 18 isolates of Giardia lamblia obtained from day care children. Exp. Parasitol. 104 (2003) 162-166
20. Pelayo, L. et al. Giardia infections in Cuban children: genotypes circulating in a rural population. Ann. Trop. Med. Parasitol. (in press)
21. Núñez F.A., et al. Eficacia de varios esquemas de tratamiento para la infección por Giardia lamblia en niños. Rev. Panam. Infectol. 6 (2004) 17-20 (in Spanish)
22. Escobedo A.A., et al. Comparison of chloroquine, albendazole, and tinidazole in the treatment of children with giardiasis. Ann. Trop. Med. Parasitol. 97 (2003) 367-371
23. Fonte L., et al. Overdiagnosis of intestinal amoebiasis associated to serial microscopical examination of faeces. Some precisions on a problem. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 93 (1998) 799-800
24. Fonte L., et al. Sobrediagnóstico microscópico de amebiasis intestinal. Evaluación de una intervención en la provincia de Cienfuegos. Rev. Cub. Invest. Biomed. 22 (2003) 173-179 (in Spanish)
25. Lau S., and Matricardi P.M. Worms, asthma, and the hygiene hypothesis. Lancet 367 (2006) 1598-1603
26. Wordemann M., et al. Association of atopy, asthma, allergic rhinoconjunctivitis, atopic dermatitis and intestinal helminth infections in Cuban children. Trop. Med. Int. Health 13 (2008) 180-186
27. Espino A.M., et al. Coproantígenos de Fasciola hepatica y su posible utilidad para diagnosticar la fascioliasis. Rev. Panam. Salud Publica 7 (2000) 225-231 (in Spanish)
28. Duménigo B.E., et al. Kinetics of antibody-based antigen detection in serum and faeces of sheep experimentally infected with Fasciola hepatica. Vet. Parasitol. 89 (2000) 153-161
29. Espino A.M., et al. Fasciola hepatica: detection of antigenemia and coproantigens in experimentally infected rats. Exp. Parasitol. 85 (1997) 117-120
30. Espino A.M., et al. Dynamics of antigenemia and coproantigens during a human Fasciola hepatica outbreak. J. Clin. Microbiol. 36 (1998) 2723-2726
31. Marcet R., et al. Mecanismo de acción del anticuerpo monoclonal ES-78. Rev. Cub. Med. Trop. 56 (2004) 203-207
32. Díaz A., et al. Partial characterization of the epitope on excretory-secretory products of Fasciola hepatica recognized by monoclonal antibody ES78. J. Parasitol. 84 (1998) 55-61
33. Marcet R., et al. Passive protection against fasciolosis in mice by immunisation with a monoclonal antibody ES-78MoAb. Parasite Immunol. 24 (2002) 103-108
34. Rojas L., et al. Trichomonosis vaginal en un grupo de personas positivas al VIH. Rev. Cubana Med. Trop. 52 (2000) 230-232 (in Spanish; English abstract)
35. Rojas L., et al. Frecuencia de infección por Trichomonas vaginalis en parejas con trastornos de la fertilidad. Rev Cub Med Trop 54 (2002) 85-90 (in Spanish; English abstract)
36. Rojas L., et al. Frecuencia de trichomonosis vaginal en mujeres supuestamente sanas. Rev. Cubana Hig. Epidemiol. 37 (2002) 66-70 (in Spanish; English abstract)
37. Rojas L., et al. Comportamiento de la trichomonosis vaginal en un grupo de adolescentes. Rev. Cub. Med. Trop. 55 (2003) 179-184 (in Spanish; English abstract)
38. Rojas L., et al. Cytoadherence assays in the comparative study of the virulence of isolates of T. vaginalis. Parasitol. Res. 93 (2004) 332-337
39. Rojas L., et al. Comportamiento in vivo de aislamientos de Trichomonas vaginalis utilizando ratones NMRI como modelo experimental. Rev. Chilena Infectol. 21 (2004) 179-185 (in Spanish)
40. Rojas L., et al. Genetic variability between Trichomonas vaginalis isolates and correlation with clinical presentation. Infect. Genet. Evol. 4 (2004) 53-58
41. Fraga J., et al. La técnica de RAPD: Obtención de marcadores genéticos de patogenicidad en Trichomonas vaginalis y Giardia lamblia. Rev. Venez. Microbiol. 24 Suppl 4 (2004) 238-245 (in Spanish)
42. Hernández H., et al. Monoclonal antibodies against a 62kDa proteinase of T. vaginalis decrease parasite cytoadherence to epithelial cells and confer protection in mice. Parasite Immunol. 26 (2004) 119-125
43. Hernández H.M., et al. Intranasal immunisation with a 62 kDa proteinase combined with cholera toxin or CpG adjuvant protects against Trichomonas vaginalis genital tract infections in mice. Int. J. Parasitol. 35 (2005) 1333-1337
44. Ersmark K., et al. Plasmepsins as potential targets for new antimalarial therapy. Med. Res. Rev. 26 (2006) 626-666
45. Salas E., et al. A heterogeneous enzymatic assay for quantification of Plasmepsin II activity and the evaluation of its inhibitors. J. Pharm. Biomed. Anal. 34 (2004) 833-840
46. Mendiola J., et al. Antimalarial activity from three ascidians: an exploration of different marine invertebrate phyla. Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 100 (2006) 909-916
47. Mendiola J., et al. Actividad inhibidora del crecimiento in vitro de Plasmodium falciparum de extractos de algas del género Laurencia. Rev. Cub. Med. Trop. 57 (2005) 192-195 (in Spanish; English abstract)
48. Monzote Fidalgo L., et al. Effect of thiadiazine derivatives on intracellular amastigotes of Leishmania amazonensis. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 99 (2004) 329-330
49. Monzote L., et al. In vitro activities of thiadiazine derivatives against Leishmania amazonensis. Arzneimittelforschung 55 (2005) 232-238
50. Monzote L., et al. Actividad antileishmanial del aceite extraido de Chenopodium ambrosioides. Rev. Cub. Farmacia. 38 Suppl 1 (2004) 644-648 (in Spanish; English abstract)
51. Monzote L., et al. Activity of the essential oil from Chenopodium ambrosioides grown in Cuba against Leishmania amazonensis. Chemotherapy 52 (2006) 130-136
52. Monzote L., et al. Combined effect of the essential oil from Chenopodium ambrosioides and antileishmanial drugs on promastigotes of Leishmania amazonensis. Inst. Med. Trop. Sao Paulo 49 (2007) 257-260
53. Monzote L., et al. "In vitro" activity of an essential oil against Leishmania donovani. Phytother. Res. 21 (2007) 1055-1058
54. Monzote L., et al. Activity, toxicity and analysis of resistance of essential oil from Chenopodium ambrosioides after intraperitoneal, oral and intralesional administration in BALB/c mice infected with Leishmania amazonensis: a preliminary study. Biomed. Pharmacother. 61 (2007) 148-153
55. Fonte L., et al. Validación en Cuba de Enzymeba, inmunoensayo para la detección en heces de Entamoeba histolytica. Rev. Cub. Med. Trop. 50 (1998) 18-21 (in Spanish; English abstract)
56. Núñez F.A., and Finlay C. Adiestramiento en el diagnóstico de las parasitosis intestinales. Cad. Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro 17 (2001) 719-724 (in Spanish; English abstract)
57. Reed G.A. Dusk to dawn: fighting malaria in Gambia. Medicc Review 7 (2005) 11-13
58. Ruíz A., et al. Estudio de la inmunogenicidad y capacidad protectora de una biblioteca genómica de expresión de Trypanosoma cruzi en ratones BALB/c. Rev. Panam. Infectol 6 (2004) 19-25 (in Spanish)
59. Fraga J., et al. Comparación entre 5 métodos para la extracción de ADN de triatomíneos: su utilización en la técnica de ADN polimórfico amplificado al azar (RAPD). Rev. Cub. Med. Trop. 56 (2004) 208-213 (in Spanish; English abstract)
60. Rodriguez Rodriguez J., et al. Morphometric changes of Triatoma flavida Neiva 1911 (Hemiptera: Triatominae) in the transitions from sylvatic to laboratory conditions. Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. Sao Paulo 49 (2007) 127-130
61. Dorta-Contreras A.J., et al. Peculiarities of meningoencephalitis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis in America. Rev. Neurol. 45 (2007) 755-763
62. Montalvo A.M., et al. Immunización con subgenoteca de Leishmania amazonensis resulta protectora contra el reto a ratones Balb/c. Rev. Cub. Med. Trop. 56 (2004) 103-110 (in Spanish; English abstract)
63. DeJong R.J., et al. Evolutionary relationships and biogeography of Biomphalaria (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) with implications regarding its role as host of the human bloodfluke, Schistosoma mansoni. Mol. Biol. Evol. 18 (2001) 2225-2239
64. Yong M., et al. The Biomphalaria havanensis complex (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) in Cuba: a morphological and genetic study. J. Molluscan Stud. 67 (2001) 103-111
65. Hernández Merlo R., et al. Potencial zoonótico de las infecciones por helmintos intestinales en perros callejeros de Ciudad de La Habana. Rev. Cub. Med. Trop. 58 (2007) 3 (in Spanish; English abstract)
66. Gavito D.E. Importancia de la Educación Médica en el diagnóstico de la toxoplasmosis en Cuba. Rev. Cub. Med. Trop. 55 (2003) 121-123