The CDC is monitoring the spread of a similar fungal infection, also in cats, in South America. That infection is spread by a related fungus, Sporothrix brasiliensis, which hasn’t been detected ...

Gause said that what occurs in mice from N. brasiliensis perhaps occurs in humans exposed to parasitic worms. If so, these worms could be more effective than some drugs at triggering the immune ...

There is now a separate chapter on the botany of the Para tree, Hevea brasiliensis, and one on the effect of tapping on the trees. Its Botany, Cultivation, Chemistry, and Diseases. By Herbert Wright.