Ureaplasma diversum is an opportunistic bovine pathogen associated with reproductive disorders, including infertility, granular vulvovaginitis, placentitis, and abortion; however, detailed descriptions of fetal osteoarticular lesions remain exceptionally uncommon. This report describes the gross, histopathological, and molecular findings of a bovine abortion associated with U. diversum infection presenting with concurrent pulm...

The increase in fungal infections, the limited therapeutic arsenal, and the emergence of resistance pose a global health problem. Candida spp. stand out as opportunistic pathogens that cause superficial and invasive diseases. Thus, the search for new therapeutic alternatives, such as drug repositioning, is necessary. Duloxetine (DUL), a serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor antidepressant used to treat depression, has de...

Sporotrichosis caused by Sporothrix brasiliensis is a highly virulent zoonotic mycosis rapidly expanding in Brazil, with increasing records in Pará since 2018. The reference diagnosis relies on culture and the time-consuming induction of fungal dimorphism, which delays taxonomic confirmation for weeks. The objective of the study was to develop and validate an in-house spectral library by MALDI-TOF MS for the rapid identificati...

Forests and natural environments are valuable sources of organisms capable of degrading plant cell wall carbohydrates. In the present study, two isolates, Penicillium polonicum and Penicillium chrysogenum , obtained from Brazilian Cerrado soil, along with a previously characterized isolate of Trichoderma harzianum , were evaluated for their ability to produce carbohydrate-active enzymes when grown in the presence of wheat bran...

This study evaluated the safety and feasibility of gasless laparoscopic cholecystectomy in dogs, identifying factors associated with surgical time and survival. Twenty-five dogs with symptomatic gallbladder disease—predominantly gallbladder mucocele (72.0%) and cholelithiasis—underwent cholecystectomy using a mechanical abdominal wall lift system. Variables including gallbladder volume, age, body condition score, and intraoper...

This paper presents a framework for automatically generating interpretable LoD2 indoor 3D models from unstructured point clouds. The method treats indoor modeling as a cartographic generalization problem, introducing a 3D corpus of geospatial feature classes that represents indoor environments as parsimonious compositions of geometric primitives organized by spatial grammar and compatible with IndoorGML. A sparse convolutional...

Objectives This study investigated the helminth fauna of Serrasalmus maculatus and Serrasalmus marginatus in a protected area (Santa Helena Biological Refuge) and in the lower São Francisco Falso River, Brazil. The main objective was to compare the parasitic helminth fauna of these species between the areas of occurrence and to develop an updated list of the recorded parasite species. Methods Fifty individuals of each host spe...

Residual herbicides are widely used in weed management; however, their persistence in the environment can lead to agronomic and ecological impacts. This study assessed bacterial isolates obtained from sugarcane soil with a history of diuron exposure for their ability to increase diuron dissipation under controlled conditions. Forty-two bacterial isolates were obtained, of which 18 tolerated the commercial formulation at 1,000...

The present study aimed to comprehensively characterize the cancer-associated virome in patients with gastric cancer. A total of 452 samples were analyzed, including 226 tumor tissues and 202 peritumoral tissues from patients undergoing surgical resection, alongside 24 normal gastric mucosa samples obtained via endoscopy from individuals without cancer. RNA was extracted, libraries were prepared, and paired-end sequencing was...