Plasma levels of tumor necrosis factor-alpha in patients with visceral leishmaniasis (Kala-azar). Association with activity of the disease and clinical remission following antimonial therapy.

abstract：:The insecticidal effect of six commercially available plant oils was tested against 4th larval instars of Culex pipiens. Larvae were originally collected from Meit El-Attar, Qalyubia Governorate, Egypt, and then reared in the laboratory until F1 generation. The LC50 values were 32.42, 47.17, 71.37, 83.36, 86.06, and 1...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Khater HF,Shalaby AA

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early in 1995 the first case of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome was serologically confirmed in El Bolsón (Province of Río Negro, Argentina), corresponding to the third outbreak reported in Argentina. A total of 26 cases of HPS related to the Andean region of Rio Negro Province, were reported from 1993 to 1996, 17 in El ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Cantoni G,Lazaro M,Resa A,Arellano O,Amestoy AM,De Bunder S,Herrero E,Perez A,Larrieu E

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several methods have been used for the preservation of fungi, all of them presenting advantages and disadvantages. The choice of the methods depends upon the laboratory availabilities, time of preservation, genetic stability of the cultures and other factors. In this work the results obtained through the utilization o...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Rodrigues EG,Lírio VS,Lacaz Cda S

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the São Paulo State, Brazil, where the Biomphalaria tenagophila is the intermediate host, the Ribeira Valley is an important endemic schistosomiasis mansoni area. During last eleven years there has been intense control measures focusing on schistosomiasis. The efforts have been concentrated in the municipalities of...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Figueiredo AC,Dias LC,Marques EH

更新日期：1992-05-01 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 production of anti-snake venom from large mammal's blood has been found to be low-yielding and arduous, consequently, antivenom immunoglobulins for treatment are achieved regularly as polyvalent serum. We have standardized an undemanding technique for making purified immunoglobulin IgY antivenom consisting of poly...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Aguilar I,Sánchez EE,Girón ME,Estrella A,Guerrero B,Rodriguez-Acosta FA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis caused by Cladophialophora sp. is reported. The patient, an immunosuppressed host presented a nodule on the dorsum of the right hand which relapsed four months after excision. Dematiaceous septate hyphal and yeast like elements were seen in mycological and histological examinat...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Fernandes NC,Nacif D,Akiti T,Cuzzi T

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lutzomyia verrucarum (Townsend, 1913) (Diptera: Psychodidae); the natural vector of Bartonella bacilliformis, agent of human bartonellosis (peruvian verruga or Carrion's disease), is a native species of Peru; its geographic distribution occurrs between latitudes 5 degrees and 13 degrees 25' South: in the Occidental an...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Caceres AG

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sedimentation technique is described, in which a fecal suspension is placed on top of an aqueous sucrose solution of specific gravity 1.015 g/cm3. Using 100 by 15 mm test tubes, duplicate gravity sedimentation experiments were made using homogenized fecal suspensions (single-columns) and fecal suspensions placed on ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Moitinho Mda L,Ferreira CS

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three calves experimentally infected with Schistosoma mansoni, and passing viable eggs in feces, as well as 5 normal calves (coming from a non-endemic area for schistosomiasis) kept as controls, were maintained in an enclosure (850 m2 in area). In this enclosure, a tank with water received 500 laboratory reared Biomph...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Modena CM,Coelho PM,Barbosa FS,Lima WS

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports a case of peritonitis by Nocardia asteroides during continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis in a man who had systemic lupus erythematous and chronic renal failure. Diagnosis was established by microscopic examination (Gram and Kinyoun) and culture of centrifuged dialysis fluid and the patient was ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Lopes JO,Alves SH,Benevenga JP,Salla A,Tatsch I

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In human toxocariasis, there are few approaches using immunological markers for diagnosis and therapeutic assessment. An immunoblot (IB) assay using excretory-secretory Toxocara canis antigen was standardized for monitoring IgG, IgE and IgA antibodies in 27 children with toxocariasis (23 visceral, three mixed visceral...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Rubinsky-Elefant G,Hoshino-Shimizu S,Jacob CM,Sanchez MC,Ferreira AW

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mato Grosso do Sul State (MS) has the second-largest indigenous population and the highest incidence rates of TB among indigenous people in Brazil. However, little is known about the risk factors associated with active TB in indigenous people in the region, especially regarding socioeconomic factors. The aim of th...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Malacarne J,Kolte IV,Freitas LP,Orellana JDY,Souza MLP,Souza-Santos R,Basta PC

更新日期：2018-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Supernatant of boiled spleen saline-suspensions of Yersinia pestis experimentally infected animals were used as template for PCR amplification without DNA extraction. PCR sensitivity was enhanced by a second round of amplification (Nested). No amplification was observed from non-infected animals. ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Leal NC,Abath FG,Alves LC,de Almeida AM

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty seven cases of neurocysticercosis, with clinical picture of acute meningitis, are described. Twenty (74.1%) patients are male; the age was 4 to 42 years (23.6 +/- 11.7 years). The etiologic diagnosis was defined by the complement fixation test (Weinberg) and/or enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for cyst...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Bonametti AM,Baldy JL,Bortoliero AL,de Maio CM,Passos Jdo N,Takata PK,de Pauli DS,Guimarães JC,Anzai ET,Elisbão Mdo C

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of prenatal diagnosis of congenital rubella. After birth, in addition to traditional serologic and clinical examinations to confirm the infection, we could identify the virus in the "first fluid aspirated from the oropharynx of the newborn", using polimerase chain reaction (PCR). We propose that this...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Pedreira DA,Haiek DB,Okay TS,Russo EM,Proença RS,Falcão MC,Zugaib M

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chagas disease and the leishmaniases are endemic zoonoses of great importance to public health in the state of Piauí, Brazil. The domestic dog (Canis familiaris) is a major reservoir, host of Trypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania spp. in both urban and rural areas, playing an important role in the transmission of these par...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Perez TD,Figueiredo FB,Junior AA,Silva VL,Madeira MF,Brazil RP,Coura JR

更新日期：2016-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The snail density, levels of infection and the monthly production of Schistosoma mansoni cercariae by Biomphalaria glabrata were determined in a focus of Barreiro de Baixo (Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil). During a period of 38 months (1984 to 1987) 5,366 snails were collected of which 324 (6.03%) were infected with S. ma...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： de Souza CP,Araújo N,Jannotti-Passos LK,Guimarães CT

更新日期：1994-11-01 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 specificity and sensitivity of the enzyme immunoassay (EIA), presently used in South America areas where hydatidosis caused by Echinococcus granulosus is endemic, was compared to two alternative EIA. One of these uses an hydatid antigen of different preparation and the other vesicular fluid of Taenia crassiceps ci...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Coltorti E,Cammarieŕi G

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In children, vertical transmission is the main form of HIV infection. Our aim was to determine the prevalence of HIV-1 vertical transmission in mother-infant pairs in a public maternity ward in Presidente Prudente, SP. Additionally; we sought to identify characteristics associated with this form of transmission. The f...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Prestes-Carneiro LE,Spir PR,Ribeiro AA,Gonçalves VL

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study was conducted in nine patients with rabies admitted to a hospital of Fortaleza, Brazil. Autopsy was performed in all cases. The ages ranged from three to 81 years and six were males. They all were bitten by dogs. The time between the accident and the hospital admission ranged from 20 to 120 days ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Daher Ede F,da Silva Júnior GB,Ferreira MT,Barros FA,Gurgel TM,Patroćinio RM

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An E.L.I.S.A. test for antibody detection, with an exo-antigen of Coccidioides immitis was standardized in 67 humans sera diluted in 1/1000, 1/2000, 1/4000 and 1/8000. Eighteen sera from mycologically proved cases of coccidioidomycosis were studied: 5 were negative and 13 were positive in some dilutions. 3/26 sera of ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Tiraboschi IN,Marticorena B,Negroni R

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild rodents have been described as the most important hosts for Angiostrongylus costaricensis in Central America and southern Brazil. Sinantropic rodents apparently do not play a significant role as natural hosts. A search for natural infection failed to document worms in 14 mice captured in the house of a patient wi...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： dos Santos FT,Pinto VM,Graeff-Teixeira C

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mutagenic activities of 16 anti-parasite drugs were screened by the Simultest in both qualitative (spot test) and quantitative (plate incorporation) assays with a Salmonella typhimurium pool composed by the indicator strains TA97, TA98, TA100 and TA102. Four anti Chagas' disease drugs (nifurtimox, benznidazole, CL...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Melo ME,Ferreira LC

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis (ATL) is endemic in the municipality of Montes Claros, Minas Gerais State. The use of geotechnology such as spatial statistics and remote sensing has contributed to a better understanding of the eco-epidemiology of diseases, and consequently a better definition of control strategies....

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Ursine RL,Rocha MF,Sousa JF,Santos RCD,Soares MD,Gusmão MSF,Leite ME,Vieira TM

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensitivity, specificity and positive predictive values of selected clinical signs and symptoms in the diagnosis of Schistosoma mansoni infection were evaluated in 403 individuals (69% of inhabitants over 1 year of age) in an endemic area in Brazil (Divino). Highest sensitivity (13%) was found for blood in stools. Spe...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： de Lima e Costa MF,Rocha RS,Colley D,Gazzinelli G,Katz N

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case report describes the findings of a 18 year-old black male from Bahia, a Northeastern state in Brazil, with the sickle cell trait, who developed bilateral hyphema and vitreous hemorrhage with blindness in the course of leptospirosis. The patient started to complain of blurred vision four days after the start ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Costa E,Lopes AA,Sacramento E,Santos PA

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:M. hominis and U. urealyticum are the better-known mycoplasma species pathogenic to the human genitourinary tract, causing mainly urethritis, bacterial vaginosis and pregnancy complications. In HIV-infected patients, the prevalence and role of these species is still not well known. The aim of this work was to determin...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Cordova CM,Cunha RA

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anopheles (Kerteszia) cruzii has been implicated as the primary vector of human and simian malarias out of the Brazilian Amazon and specifically in the Atlantic Forest regions. The presence of asymptomatic human cases, parasite-positive wild monkeys and the similarity between the parasites infecting them support the d...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Kirchgatter K,Tubaki RM,Malafronte Rdos S,Alves IC,Lima GF,Guimarães Lde O,Zampaulo Rde A,Wunderlich G

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00