Memorias Inst. Oswaldo Cruz and Molecular Epidemiology

[Hooman Momen]

Volume 93(3)  May/June 1998, of the journal "Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo
Cruz" is now available for consultation on-line at

http://www.dbbm.fiocruz.br/www-mem

Among articles of interest to the TDR comunity are
  Epidemiology
          Zymodeme and Serodeme Characterization of Leishmania Isolates
Obtained from Costa Rican Patients
          - Johnny Peraza, Andrea Urbina, Rodrigo Zeledón
  Systematics
          Codes for Labelling Salivarian Trypanosomes in the New World 
          - AMR Dávila, L Ramirez, RAMS Silva (Research Note)

           Comparative Meiotic Studies in Triatoma sordida (Stål) and T.
guasayana Wygodzinsky & Abalos
          (Reduviidae, Heteroptera) 
          - P Rebagliati, AG Papeschi, LM Mola, S Pietrokovsky, P Gajate, V
Bottazzi, C Wisnivesky-Colli

          A New Species of Simulium (Diptera: Simuliidae) from Open Areas
in Central Amazonia, Brazil 
          - Neusa Hamada, Peter H Adler

             Phlebotomine Sand Flies from São Gabriel da Cachoeira (State
of Amazonas, Brazil) with a Description
          of Lutzomyia (Psychodopygus) douradoi n. sp. (Diptera: Psychodidae) 
          - Nelson F Fé, Rui Alves de Freitas, Toby V Barrett

           New Synonymy to Simulium (Inaequalium) inaequale (Paterson &
Shannon, 1927) 
          - S Coscarón, DR Miranda-Esquivel (Research Note)
 
General Biology
          Feeding Triatomines (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) with Lyophilized and
Rehydrated Blood, under
          Laboratory Conditions 
          - José Roberto Mac Cord (Research Note)
   
          Reinfection in American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: Evaluation of
Clinical Outcomes in the Hamster
          Model 
          - Y Osorio, SJ Gonzalez, VL Gama, BL Travi
   
          The Usefulness of Bergmann's Rule for the Distinction of Members
of Lutzomyia intermedia Species
          Complex (Diptera, Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) 
          - Carlos Brisola Marcondes, Ana Leuch Lozovei, Eunice AB Galati,
Helena H Taniguchi
          (Research Note)

This issue also contains the proceedings of the Second Brazilian Symposium
on Basic Research HIV/AIDS.
All articles are also available in PDF format for downloading. There is no
charge for access to the full text and illustrations of the articles.

Also available at the news and events section of the website is the final
program  of the III International Workshop on Molecular Epidemiology and
Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases, MEEGID-3. The final program
includes  hyperlinks to abstracts of the  oral presentations as well as
abstracts of all the poster presentations and can be accessed at

 http://www.dbbm.fiocruz.br/www-mem/meeting/



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Editor