1Department of Critical Care Medicine, Servicio Médico Integral, Montevideo, Uruguay 2Division of Nephrology, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil 3Department of Nephrology, Universidad de la República and Department of Nephrology, CASMU, Montevideo, Uruguay 4Department of Nephrology, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (...

Einar M. Sigurdsson,1,2 Elin Knudsen,1 Ayodeji Asuni,1 Cheryl Fitzer-Attas,4 Daniel Sage,1 David Quartermain,3 Fernando Goni,1,5 Blas Frangione,1,2 and Thomas Wisniewski1,2,3 Departments of 1Psychiatry, 2Pathology, and 3Neurology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, 4Mindset BioPharmaceuticals, Jerusalem 91450, Israel, and 5Department of Immunology, University of U...

Our goal was to detect whether spotted fever group Rickettsia are found in the suspected vector of rickettsioses, Amblyomma triste, in Uruguay. Rickettsia parkeri was detected in A. triste, which suggests that this species could be considered a pathogenic agent responsible for human rickettsioses in Uruguay.

BACKGROUND Aedes aegypti is extensively spread throughout South America where it has been responsible for large dengue epidemics during the last decades. Intriguingly, dengue transmission has not been reported in Uruguay and is essentially prevalent in subtropical northern Argentina which borders Uruguay. METHODS We assessed vector competence for dengue virus (DENV) of Ae. aegypti populations...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of different health warning labels (HWL). MATERIAL AND METHODS Data from the International Tobacco Control Survey (ITC Survey) were analyzed from adult smokers in Brazil, Uruguay and Mexico, each of which used a different HWL strategy (pictures of human suffering and diseased organs; abstract pictorial representations of risk; and text-only messages, respectivel...

RAUL DONANGELO, HUGO FORT, MARTEN SCHEFFER, EGBERT H. VAN NES, and VASILIS DAKOS ∗ Instituto de F́ısica, Facultad de Ingenieŕıa, Universidad de la República, Julio Herrera y Reissig 565, 11.300 Montevideo, Uruguay. † Instituto de F́ısica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Iguá 4225, 11.400 Montevideo, Uruguay. ‡ Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Wageningen Unive...

j1 Christian Chreties MSc Assistant Professor, Instituto de Mecánica de los Fluidos e Ingenierı́a Ambiental (IMFIA), Engineering School, Universidad de la República, Uruguay j2 Luis Teixeira PhD Full Professor, Instituto de Mecánica de los Fluidos e Ingenierı́a Ambiental (IMFIA), Engineering School, Universidad de la República, Uruguay j3 Gonzalo Simarro PhD Associate Researcher, Instituto de Cie...

Mycosphaerella species are well-known causal agents of leaf diseases on many economically and ecologically important plant species. In Uruguay, a relatively large number of Mycosphaerellaceae and Teratosphaeriaceae are found on Eucalyptus, but nothing is known of these fungi on native Myrtaceae. The aim of this study was to identify Mycosphaerellaceae and Teratosphaeriaceae species associated w...

A novel, methicillin-resistant [corrected] Staphylococcus aureus clone (Uruguay clone) with a non-multidrug-resistant phenotype caused a large outbreak, including 7 deaths, in Montevideo, Uruguay. The clone was distinct from the highly virulent community clone represented by strain MW2, although both clones carried Panton-Valentine leukocidin gene and cna gene.

We detected orthopoxvirus in 28 of 125 serum samples collected during 2009 from cattle in Uruguay. Two samples were PCR-positive for vaccinia virus and had sequences similar to those for vaccinia virus associated with outbreaks in Brazil. Autochthonous circulation of vaccinia virus in Uruguay and other South American countries cannot be ruled out.