Raw milk cheeses from Beira Baixa, Portugal-A contributive study for the microbiological hygiene and safety assessment.

Due to specific bacterial microbiota, raw milk cheeses have appreciated sensory properties. However, they may pose a threat to consumer safety due to potential pathogens presence. This study evaluated the microbiological contamination of 98 raw milk cheeses from Beira Baixa, Portugal.

Two Cultural Processing Asymmetries Drive Spatial Attention.

Cultural routines, such as reading and writing direction (script direction), channel attention orientation. Depending on one's native language habit, attention is biased from left-to-right (LR) or from right-to-left (RL). Here, we further document this bias, as it interacts with the spatial directionality that grounds time concepts.

The Effect of Simultaneously Presented Words and Auditory Tones on Visuomotor Performance.

The experiment reported here used a variation of the spatial cueing task to examine the effects of unimodal and bimodal attention-orienting primes on target identification latencies and eye gaze movements. The primes were a nonspatial auditory tone and words known to drive attention consistent with the dominant writing and reading direction, as well as introducing a semantic, temporal bias (past-future) on the horizontal dimension. As expected, past-related (visual) word primes gave rise to shorter response latencies on the left hemifield and future-related words on the right.

Asymmetric practices of reading and writing shape visuospatial attention and discrimination.

Movement is generally conceived of as unfolding laterally in the writing direction that one is socialized into. In 'Western' languages, this is a left-to-right bias contributing to an imbalance in how attention is distributed across space. We propose that the rightward attentional bias exercises an additional unidirectional influence on discrimination performance thus shaping the congruency effect typically observed in Posner-inspired cueing tasks.

Social Inferences From Faces as a Function of the Left-to-Right Movement Continuum.

We examined whether reading and writing habits known to drive agency perception also shape the attribution of other agency-related traits, particularly for faces oriented congruently with script direction (i.e., left-to-right).

Presence of respiratory viruses in equines in Brazil.

Equines are susceptible to respiratory viruses such as influenza and parainfluenza. Respiratory diseases have adversely impacted economies all over the world. This study was intended to determine the presence of influenza and parainfluenza viruses in unvaccinated horses from some regions of the state of São Paulo, Brazil.

Influenza viruses in adult dogs raised in rural and urban areas in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.

In 1970, searching for the interspecies transmission of influenza viruses led to the first study on influenza viruses in domestic animals. Birds and mammals, including human beings, are their natural hosts; however, other animals may also play a role in the virus epidemiology. The objective was to investigate the incidence of influenza viruses in adult dogs raised in rural (9, 19.

Vaxcine(TM): an oil-based adjuvant for influenza vaccines.

Vaccination is the method of choice for the prevention of influenza infection. However, the quantity of the antigen available, especially in the case of pandemics, often fails to meet the global demand. However, improved adjuvants can overcome this problem.

[Relapse into pregnancy in adolescents from Teresina, PI, Brazil].

Pregnancy in adolescence is a public health problem, and relapse rates make it even more serious. Out of 1,1 million parturient adolescents, 25% have a child already. We aimed to analyze the social economic cultural obstetric factors of relapse into pregnancy in adolescence in Teresina, PI, Brazil through interelational retrospective study.

[Analysis of scientific production on the usage of contraceptive methods by adolescents].

The purpose fo the study was to analyze national scientific production on the contraceptives in adolescence. A quantitative descriptive research through systematic revision was performed in CAPES' database from 1997 to 2007. Out of the 43 ABSTRACTs, 35 were dissertations (81.

Antiviral activity of the hemolymph of Lonomia obliqua (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae).

Potent antiviral activity against measles, influenza and polio viruses was observed in the hemolymph of Lonomia obliqua. The antiviral protein responsible for this activity was isolated, purified by gel filtration chromatography using a gel filtration column system (Superdex 75) and further fractionated using a Resource-Q ion exchange column system. Experiments with the purified protein led to a 157-fold reduction (from 3.

[Brastfeeding: factors that cause early weaning].

This study aimed to identify the reasons which made mothers wean their children early and analyze their knowledge on breastfeeding. It is about a research of qualitative approach and was developed in Teresina-Pi, with 11(eleven) mothers, aged between 18 and 43 years old, who weaned early. The reports of the subjects, from the semi-structured interview, enabled the emergence of two categories: Understanding on breastfeeding and Factors that led to early weaning.

Influenza virus and proteolytic bacteria co-infection in respiratory tract from individuals presenting respiratory manifestations.

A role for proteolytic bacteria in the exacerbation of influenza virus has been shown in natural hosts such as pigs and humans. Four hundred seven samples were collected from the respiratory tract of individuals presenting clinical manifestations, during influenza season (2003-2005) in São Paulo City. The aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence of determined bacteria co-infecting virus in human respiratory tract.

[Humanization and nursing assistance to normal childbirth].

Bibliographical study that sought to identify the scientific production about humanization and nursing assistance to normal childbirth. The sources were scientific articles from SCIELO-Brasil's database, from 2000 to 2007. We obtained 13 articles as result from the search, which were grouped in the following categories: childbirth medicalization, humanization of assistance to childbirth, companion during childbirth and performance of the obstetric nurse.

Co-infection between influenza virus and flagellated bacteria.

Trypsin is required in the hemagglutinin (HA) cleavage to in vitro influenza viruses activation. This HA cleavage is necessary for virus cell entry by receptor-mediated endocytosis. Bacteria in the respiratory tract are potential sources of proteases that could contribute to the cleavage of influenza virus in vivo.

Purification and characterization of an anti-apoptotic protein isolated from Lonomia obliqua hemolymph.

Previously it was reported that supplementation of insect cell culture with Lonomia obliqua hemolymph could extend culture longevity (Maranga et al. Biotechnol. Prog.

[Influenza in heterothermic animals].

The objective was to study Orthomyxovirus in heterothermic animals. Blood samples from snakes (genus Bothrops and Crotalus) and from toads and frogs (genus Bufo and Rana) were collected to evaluate the red cell receptors and antibodies specific to influenza virus by the hemagglutination and hemagglutination inhibition tests, respectively. Both snakes and toads kept in captivity presented receptors in their red cells and antibodies specific to either influenza virus type A (human and equine origin) or influenza type B.