PCR in the first oropharynx aspirate of the newborn: a possible source for identification of congenital infection agents.

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of the protein-calorie malnutrition in BALB/c isogenic mice infected with Lacazia loboi, employing nutritional and histopathological parameters. Four groups were composed: G1: inoculated with restricted diet, G2: not inoculated with restricted diet, G3: inoculated with...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Barbosa AS,Diório SM,Pedrini SC,Nunes AJ,Belone Ade F,Silva SM,Sartori BG,Calvi SA,Vilani-Moreno FR,Pereira PC

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the concordance between two versions of the scoring system (2011 and 2019), recommended by the Brazilian Ministry of Health, for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in children and adolescents. A retrospective descriptive study was performed to assess the medical records...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Carvalho RF,Carvalho ACC,Velarde LGC,Rossoni AMO,Aurilio RB,Sias SMA,Schmidt CM,Moreira ADSR,Martins PDS,Gonçalves LI,Martire TM,Barbosa APF,Santos APQD,Romanelli RMC,Oliveira MDGR,Diniz LMO,Carvalho AL,Lucena SC,Cruz

更新日期：2020-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last years, new techniques of neuroimages and histopathological methods have been added to the management of cerebral mass lesions in patients with AIDS. Stereotactic biopsy is necessary when after 14 days of empirical treatment for Toxoplasma gondii encephalitis there is no clinical or neuroradiologic improvem...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Corti ME,Yampolsky C,Metta H,Valerga M,Sevlever G,Capizzano A

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contaminated soil with mammal feces is an important factor of risk to infection with zoonotic diseases. Amongst these zoonoses are visceral larva migrans and cutaneous larva migrans caused by Toxocara spp. and Ancylostoma spp., respectively. The aim of this study was to assess the environmental contamination by To...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Marques JP,Guimarães Cde R,Boas AV,Carnaúba PU,Moraes Jd

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2018, Bhutan reported 54 cases of malaria, of which six were indigenous, 14 introduced and 34 imported. Considering the continuous reduction in the number of indigenous cases, Bhutan plans to eliminate malaria by 2025 under the Bhutan Malaria Elimination Strategy. The study was conducted to assess the presence of a...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Wangchuk S,Gyeltshen S,Dorji K,Wangdi T,Dukpa T,Namgay R,Dorjee S,Tobgay T,Chaijaroenkul W,Na-Bangchang K

更新日期：2019-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Candidemia remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the health care environment. The epidemiology of Candida infection is changing, mainly in relation to the number of episodes caused by species C. non-albicans. The overall objective of this study was to evaluate the frequency of yeasts of the genus Candida...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Oliveira VK,Ruiz Lda S,Oliveira NA,Moreira D,Hahn RC,Melo AS,Nishikaku AS,Paula CR

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection by Candida spp. is associated with high mortality rates, especially when treatment is not appropriate and/or not immediate. Therefore, it is necessary to correctly identify the genus and species of Candida. The aim of this study was to compare the identification of 89 samples of Candida spp. by the manual me...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Souza MN,Ortiz SO,Mello MM,Oliveira Fde M,Severo LC,Goebel CS

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 868 (84.89%) patients diagnosed with tetanus were studied, out of the 1,024 tetanus patients hospitalized at Couto Maia Hospital (Salvador, Bahia, Brazil), during the period between 1986 and 1997. Of this group (n = 868), 63.5% (n = 551) were discharged, 35.4% (n = 307) died, and 1.1% (n = 10) were transfer...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Greco JB,Tavares-Neto J,Greco Júnior JB

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The administration of viable Bifidobacterium animalis was tested to induce resistance against Strongyloides venezuelensis infection in mice. Effects on parasite burden, worm length, egg output, and intestinal mucosal histology were evaluated. The oral administration of B. animalis, strain 04450B, starting 14 days befo...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Oliveira-Sequeira TC,David ÉB,Ribeiro C,Guimarães S,Masseno AP,Katagiri S,Sequeira JL

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is an important type of cancer etiologically related to some viruses, chemical carcinogens and other host or environmental factors associated to chronic liver injury in humans. The tumor suppressor gene p53 is mutated in highly variable levels (0-52%) of HCC in different countr...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Alves VA,Nita ME,Carrilho FJ,Ono-Nita SK,Wakamatsu A,Lehrbach DM,de Carvalho MF,de Mello ES,Gayotto LC,da Silva LC

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systematic examination of the upper respiratory and digestive tracts (URDT) was performed in a group of 80 paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) patients submitted to post-treatment follow-up ranging from 8 months to 17 years. Mucosae of the URDT had been involved prior to specific treatment in 74 patients, distributed as foll...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： do Valle AC,Aprigliano Filho F,Moreira JS,Wanke B

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between April and October 2002, thirty fortnightly collections of oysters (Crassostrea rhizophorea) from a natural oyster bed at the Cocó River estuary in the Sabiaguaba region (Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil) were carried out, aiming to isolate Aeromonas spp. strains. Oyster samples were submitted to the direct plating (DP...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Evangelista-Barreto NS,Vieira RH,Carvalho FC,Torres RC,Sant'Anna ES,Rodrigues DP,Reis CM

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous pulmonary schistosome egg granulomas were present in mice submitted to partial portal vein ligation (Warren's model). The granulomas were characterized by cellular aggregations formed within alveolar tissue. Main cellular types were macrophages (epithelioid cells), eosinophils, plasma cells and lymphocytes. T...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Vidal MR,Barbosa Júnior AA,Andrade ZA

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mayaro virus (MAYV) is an arbovirus (Togaviridae: Alphavirus) enzootic in tropical South America and maintained in a sylvan cycle involving wild vertebrates and Haemagogus mosquitoes. MAYV cases occur sporadically in persons with a history of recent activities inside or around forests. This paper reports three cases o...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Coimbra TL,Santos CL,Suzuki A,Petrella SM,Bisordi I,Nagamori AH,Marti AT,Santos RN,Fialho DM,Lavigne S,Buzzar MR,Rocco IM

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report clinical features and therapeutic response of 24 outpatients with acute Chagas' disease, and 3 in the initial chronic phase, referred to the Clinic for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases of the FMUSP "Clínicas" Hospital between 1974 and 1987. The following transmission routes were involved: triatomin...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Shikanai-Yasuda MA,Lopes MH,Tolezano JE,Umezawa E,Amato Neto V,Barreto AC,Higaki Y,Moreira AA,Funayama G,Barone AA

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haptoglobin assay, a highly sensitive method to detect intravascular hemolysis was carried out in the sera of 19 patients referred to Hospital Vital Brazil with the cutaneous form of loxoscelism in order to investigate the occurrence of mild intravascular hemolysis. Data from this series did not show decreased levels ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Morena P,Nonoyama K,Cardoso JL,Barretto OC

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stenotrophomonas maltophilia has emerged as an important opportunistic pathogen in the last decade. Increased resistance to sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim (SMX/TMP) has been reported in S. maltophilia strains in the past few years, leading to few therapeutic options. We conducted a prospective multicenter study at two ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Mendes ET,Paez JIG,Ferraz JR,Marchi AP,Silva ILAFE,Batista MV,Lima ALM,Rossi F,Levin AS,Costa SF

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A chronic infection (10 years) by Lagochilascaris minor is described in a woman from the amazon region of Colombia. This is the third case of infection by this parasite that has been described so far in Colombia, and only the first one in a person coming from the Colombian Amazon region. ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Moncada LI,Alvarez CA,Castellanos C,Caceres E,Nicholls S,Corredor A

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency and class of immediate-type hypersensitivity manifestations were studied in 494 snakebitten and scorpion stung patients who were treated with intravenous injections of antivenom sera. These patients were admitted to HC-FMRPUSP from 1983 to 1988. The effectiveness of a hypersensitivity skin test was also ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Cupo P,Azevedo-Marques MM,de Menezes JB,Hering SE

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is the most common congenital infection, affecting 0.4% to 2.3% newborns. Most of them are asymptomatic at birth, but later 10% develop handicaps, mainly neurological disturbances. Our aim was to determine the prevalence of CMV shed in urine of newborns from a neonatal intensive care un...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Santos DV,Souza MM,Gonçalves SH,Cotta AC,Melo LA,Andrade GM,Brasileiro-Filho G

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the sandflies around houses and domestic animal shelters located in residences close to forests in localities on the banks of the Araguari River, Uberlândia, MG, from February 2003 to November 2004. The phlebotomines were captured in the peridomiciliary area, where Shannon traps were utilized in the perido...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Paula MB,Souza AA,dos Reis AA,Limongi JE,Pajuaba Neto Ade A,Rodrigues Ede A

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculous brain abscesses in AIDS patients are considered rare with only eight cases reported in the literature. We describe the case of a 34-year-old woman with AIDS and previous toxoplasmic encephalitis who was admitted due to headache and seizures. A brain computed tomography scan disclosed a frontal hypodense le...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Vidal JE,Cimerman S,da Silva PR,Sztajnbok J,Coelho JF,Lins DL

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic fungal infections are responsible for high mortality rates. Several species of fungi may be involved, but Candida spp. is the most prevalent. Simvastatin is used to lower cholesterol and also exhibits antifungal action. The aim of this study was to evaluate the synergistic action of simvastatin with fluconazo...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Menezes EA,Vasconcelos Júnior AA,Silva CL,Plutarco FX,Cunha Mda C,Cunha FA

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A panoramic sight of epidemiological, clinical and experimental studies, referring to Loxosceles laeta and loxoscelism, carried out in 1955-1988, in Santiago, Chile is presented. Two-hundred and sixteen cases of loxoscelism were studied. The most relevant features were: 84.3% corresponded to cutaneous loxoscelism (CL)...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Schenone H,Saavedra T,Rojas A,Villarroel F

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 25-year-old male without prior co-morbidities was admitted to hospital with Fusobacterium necrophorum bacteremia, where he was found to have liver and splenic abscesses. Further evaluation with echocardiography revealed a bicuspid aortic valve with severe insufficiency and a 1.68 x 0.86 cm vegetation. The patient re...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Handler MZ,Miriovsky B,Gendelman HE,Sandkovsky U

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Brazil, the main etiologic agent of Leishmaniasis that frequently presents with mucosal involvement belongs to the Viannia subgenus. The therapeutic conduct in this disease depends on the parasitological diagnosis, and classical methods are restricted in identifying the agent. In this paper we describe a polymerase...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Paiva BR,Passos LN,Falqueto A,Malafronte Rdos S,Andrade HF Jr

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cross-sectional study was carried out among 996 volunteer blood donors enrolled from May 1999 to December 1999 to determine the seroprevalence of hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection among volunteer blood donors of the Regional Blood Bank of Londrina, State of Paraná, Brazil, and to evaluate whether the rate of seropre...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Bortoliero AL,Bonametti AM,Morimoto HK,Matsuo T,Reiche EM

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 73 year-old white male, living in the interior of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, in central Brazil, after an initial diagnosis of sinusitis was transferred to the neurology service with a 3-day evolution of intracranial hypertension. Exams showed lymphocytic leukemia and a tumor-like lesion, either an expanding in...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Salgado PR,Gorski AG,Aleixo AR,de Barros EO

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lagochilascariasis is a neglected neotropical helminthiasis, responsible for human infections through the ingestion of raw or undercooked meat from wild animals infected by larvae encysted in their tissues. It is characterized by a chronic evolution with periods of remission and recurrences, affecting mainly the head ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Assy JGPL,Esper HR,Quiroga MMM,Brandão ADS,Said RDC,Pinheiro OC,Ribeiro APDS,Santo MCCDE,França FOS

更新日期：2020-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A proven case of human infection caused by Angiostrongylus costaricensis is reported for the first time in Venezuela. The patient was a 57-year-old female surgically operated because of signs of peritonitis with a palpable mass at the lower right quadrant of the abdomen. WBC count reported 16,600 cells/mm3, with 46% e...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Incani RN,Caleiras E,Martín M,González C

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00