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Igor C. Almeida is affiliated with The University of Texas at El Paso in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Molecular Biology, Neurology, and Parasitology.

Almeida's work covers key topics including Trypanosoma species research and implications, studies on Leishmaniasis, extracellular vesicles in disease, fungal infections and related studies, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, parasites and host interactions, as well as antifungal resistance and susceptibility.

They have published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, mBio, and PLoS neglected tropical diseases.

Among Almeida's recent papers are:

  • "New regimens of benznidazole monotherapy and in combination with fosravuconazole for treatment of Chagas disease (BENDITA): a phase 2, double-blind, randomised trial" (2021, The Lancet Infectious Diseases)
  • "Plasma-derived extracellular vesicles from Plasmodium vivax patients signal spleen fibroblasts via NF-kB facilitating parasite cytoadherence" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Extracellular Vesicles Regulate Biofilm Formation and Yeast-to-Hypha Differentiation in Candida albicans" (2022, mBio)
  • "Trypanosoma cruzi-Infected Human Macrophages Shed Proinflammatory Extracellular Vesicles That Enhance Host-Cell Invasion via Toll-Like Receptor 2" (2020, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology)
  • "Target product profile for a test for the early assessment of treatment efficacy in Chagas disease patients: An expert consensus" (2020, PLoS neglected tropical diseases)

Collaboration is notable in Almeida's career, with frequent co-authors including Igor L. Estevao, Cameron C. Ellis, Brian Grajeda, Katja Michael, and Maria Tays Mendes. The counts of joint publications with these collaborators range from six to fourteen.

Best Publications

  • Activation of Toll-like receptor-2 by glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchors from a protozoan parasite.

    Marco A. S. Campos;Igor C. Almeida;Osamu Takeuchi;Shizuo Akira

  • Randomised trial of efficacy of benznidazole in treatment of early Trypanosoma cruzi infection

    Ana Lúcia Sampaio Sgambatti de Andrade;Fabio Zicker;Renato Mauricio de Oliveira;Simone Almeida e Silva

  • Extracellular Vesicles Produced by Cryptococcus neoformans Contain Protein Components Associated with Virulence

    Marcio L. Rodrigues;Ernesto S. Nakayasu;Debora L. Oliveira;Leonardo Nimrichter

  • Vesicular transport in Histoplasma capsulatum: an effective mechanism for trans-cell wall transfer of proteins and lipids in ascomycetes

    Priscila Costa Albuquerque;Ernesto S. Nakayasu;Marcio L. Rodrigues;Susana Frases

  • Highly purified glycosylphosphatidylinositols from Trypanosoma cruzi are potent proinflammatory agents.

    Igor C. Almeida;Igor C. Almeida;Maristela M. Camargo;Daniela O. Procópio;Luiz S. Silva

  • Treatment of adult chronic indeterminate Chagas disease with benznidazole and three E1224 dosing regimens: a proof-of-concept, randomised, placebo-controlled trial.

    Faustino Torrico;Joaquim Gascon;Lourdes Ortiz;Cristina Alonso-Vega

  • Proteomic Analysis of Trypanosoma cruzi Secretome: Characterization of Two Populations of Extracellular Vesicles and Soluble Proteins

    Ethel Bayer-Santos;Clemente Aguilar-Bonavides;Silas Pessini Rodrigues;Esteban Maurício Cordero

  • Compositional and immunobiological analyses of extracellular vesicles released by Candida albicans

    Gabriele Vargas;Juliana D. B. Rocha;Debora Leite Oliveira;Priscila Costa Albuquerque

  • Extracellular Vesicles from Trypanosoma brucei Mediate Virulence Factor Transfer and Cause Host Anemia

    Anthony J. Szempruch;Steven E. Sykes;Rudo Kieft;Lauren Dennison

  • Characterization of yeast extracellular vesicles: evidence for the participation of different pathways of cellular traffic in vesicle biogenesis.

    Débora L. Oliveira;Ernesto S. Nakayasu;Ernesto S. Nakayasu;Luna S. Joffe;Allan J. Guimarães

  • The mucin-like glycoprotein super-family of Trypanosoma cruzi: structure and biological roles.

    Alvaro Acosta-Serrano;Igor C. Almeida;Lucio H. Freitas-Junior;Nobuko Yoshida

  • Extracellular vesicles in parasitic diseases

    Antonio Marcilla;Lorena Martin-Jaular;Maria Trelis;Armando de Menezes-Neto

  • Kinetics of cytokine gene expression in experimental chagasic cardiomyopathy: tissue parasitism and endogenous IFN-γ as important determinants of chemokine mRNA expression during infection with Trypanosoma cruzi.

    André Talvani;André Talvani;Cristiana S Ribeiro;Júlio C.S Aliberti;Vladimir Michailowsky

  • Glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored mucin-like glycoproteins isolated from Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes initiate the synthesis of proinflammatory cytokines by macrophages.

    Maristela M. Camargo;Igor C. Almeida;Maria E S Pereira;Michael A J Ferguson

  • Exosomes from Plasmodium yoelii-infected reticulocytes protect mice from lethal infections.

    Lorena Martin-Jaular;Ernesto S. Nakayasu;Mireia Ferrer;Igor C. Almeida

  • Lytic anti-α-galactosyl antibodies from patients with chronic Chagas' disease recognize novel O-linked oligosaccharides on mucin-like glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol-anchored glycoproteins of Trypanosoma cruzi

    Igor C. Almeida;Michael A. J. Ferguson;Sergio Schenkman;Luiz R. Travassos

  • Vesicle and Vesicle-Free Extracellular Proteome of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis: Comparative Analysis with other Pathogenic Fungi

    Milene C. Vallejo;Ernesto S. Nakayasu;Alisson L. Matsuo;Tiago J. P. Sobreira

  • A Trypanosoma cruzi Small Surface Molecule Provides the First Immunological Evidence that Chagas' Disease Is Due to a Single Parasite Lineage

    Javier M. Di Noia;Carlos A. Buscaglia;Claudia R. De Marchi;Igor C. Almeida

  • Complement-mediated lysis of Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes by human anti-alpha-galactosyl antibodies.

    Igor C. Almeida;Sandra R. Milani;Philip A J Gorin;Luiz R. Travassos

  • Proinflammatory activity of glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchors derived from Trypanosoma cruzi: structural and functional analyses.

    Igor C. Almeida;Ricardo T. Gazzinelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Ernesto S. Nakayasu
Ernesto S. Nakayasu Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Ricardo T. Gazzinelli
Ricardo T. Gazzinelli Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Luiz R. Travassos
Luiz R. Travassos Federal University of Sao Paulo
Michael A. J. Ferguson
Michael A. J. Ferguson University of Dundee
Marcio L. Rodrigues
Marcio L. Rodrigues Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Leonardo Nimrichter
Leonardo Nimrichter Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Joaquim Gascon
Joaquim Gascon University of Barcelona
Sergio Schenkman
Sergio Schenkman Federal University of Sao Paulo
Susana Frases
Susana Frases Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Arturo Casadevall
Arturo Casadevall Johns Hopkins University

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