All patients were prospectively included, to cover a spectrum of illness severity including shock, and to have several microbial causative agents represented.
Several microorganisms may be causative agents of CAP, and Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common cause [ 1].
Trypanosomatids are unicellular parasitic protozoa which are the causative agents of several infamous parasitic diseases, such as African trypanosomiasis, caused by Trypanosoma brucei; Chagas' disease, caused by Trypanosoma cruzi; and leishmaniasis, caused by Leishmania species and have a dual host like malaria parasites.
Trypanosomatids are causative agents of several devastating tropical diseases such as African sleeping sickness, Chagas' disease and leishmaniasis.
Pathogenic spirochetes are the causative agents of several important diseases including syphilis, Lyme disease, leptospirosis, swine dysentery, periodontal disease and some forms of relapsing fever.
The trypanosomatid protozoan Leishmania tarentolae has been extensively used as a model system for studying causative agents of several tropical diseases and more recently as a host for recombinant protein production.
The trypanosomatid protozoon Leishmania tarentolae is a well-established model organism for studying causative agents of several tropical diseases that was more recently developed as a host for recombinant protein production.
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), two human gammaherpesviruses, are causative agents of several malignancies, such as lymphomas, nasopharyngeal carcinoma and Kaposi's sarcoma (Soulier et al., 1995; Ganem, 2006; Kutok and Wang, 2006).
Brucella spp was not detected in the same whales, similarly to a number of viral agents, which have been reported to be the causative agents of several mortality episodes among free-ranging cetaceans (Morbillivirus, Herpesvirus, Coronavirus and Adenovirus), searched using both bio-molecular techniques and electron microscopy.
