Patricia Cassina,1,3* Adriana Cassina,2,3* Mariana Pehar,4 Raquel Castellanos,1 Mandi Gandelman,1,5 Andrés de León,1,5 Kristine M. Robinson,7 Ronald P. Mason,6 Joseph S. Beckman,7 Luis Barbeito,3,4,5 and Rafael Radi,2,3 1Departamento de Histologı́a, 2Departamento de Bioquı́mica, and 3Center for Free Radical and Biomedical Research, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, 11800 Montevid...

Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 12, No. 11, November 2006 1805 sequencing (491 nt) showed 100% identity to the R. parkeri sequence from GenBank (U43802). These procedures enabled the identification of R. parkeri in 2.56% of the A. triste ticks from Uruguay. Previous findings of R. parkeri DNA in A. triste ticks from Uruguay (5) are corroborated by our isolation of a Urugua...

Equine herpesvirus 1 (EHV-1) is a major cause of epidemic abortion, neonatal mortality, respiratory disease and neurological disorders in horses. In South America, the virus has been isolated in Brazil, Argentina and Colombia. In Chile pathological findings from one aborted foetus have been reported, and in Uruguay only serological data about EHV-1 activity have been found. Some pathological fi...

The article situates a lead poisoning epidemic in Uruguay within recent processes of neoliberal and environmental reform. It argues industrial contamination and its socio-political responses have become prevalent through neoliberal-inspired transformations in production and consumption, the dismantling of state services, and increased social vulnerability to affliction. Contrary to orthodox the...

The cultivation of genetically modified (GM) Bt maize (Zea mays L.) events MON810 and Bt11 is permitted in Uruguay. Local regulations specify that 10% of the crop should be a non-GM cultivar as refuge area for biodiversity, and the distance from other non-GM maize crops should be more than 250 m in order to avoid cross-pollination. However, the degree of cross-fertilization between maize crops ...

We wish to thank the following institutions for their contribution to the success of this workshop: Embajada de Francia en Uruguay Servicio de Cooperación y Acción Cultural; European Office of Aerospace Research and Development Air Force Office of Scientific Research, United States Air Force Research Laboratory; Fundación Antorchas Argentina; Istituto Italiano Di Cultura In Uruguay; The Abdus S...

At first Rickettsia conorii was implicated as the causative agent of spotted fever in Uruguay diagnosed by serological assays. Later Rickettsia parkeri was detected in human-biting Amblyomma triste ticks using molecular tests. The natural vector of R. conorii, Rhipicephalus sanguineus, has not been studied for the presence of rickettsial organisms in Uruguay. To address this question, 180 R. sa...

Bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV) is a major cause of respiratory disease in calves resulting in a substantial economic loss for the cattle industry worldwide. In order to determine the presence of BRSV in Uruguay, an immunoenzymatic test was set up, using a recombinant BRSV nucleocapsid (N) protein as the antigen. The N protein was produced in Sf9 insect cells by a recombinant baculovi...

A new species of the hypoptopomatine genus Hisonotus (Loricariidae) is described from a small tributary of the upper rı́o Uruguay basin near the border between Uruguay and Brazil. The new species can be distinguished from all other congeners by the following combination of characters: (1) presence of serrae along distal two thirds of posterior margin of pectoral-fin spine (versus serrae absent, ...

Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 12, No. 11, November 2006 1805 sequencing (491 nt) showed 100% identity to the R. parkeri sequence from GenBank (U43802). These procedures enabled the identification of R. parkeri in 2.56% of the A. triste ticks from Uruguay. Previous findings of R. parkeri DNA in A. triste ticks from Uruguay (5) are corroborated by our isolation of a Urugua...