[Yellow fever in the Ribeirão Preto region at the turn of the 19th century: its scientific importance and economic repercussions].

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The use of entomopathogenic fungi to control disease vectors has become relevant because traditional chemical control methods have caused damage to the environment and led to the development of resistance among vectors. Thus, this study assessed the pathogenicity of entomopathogenic fungi in Triatoma dimid...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Vázquez-Martínez MG,Cirerol-Cruz BE,Torres-Estrada JL,López MH

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiostrongylus costaricensisis is an intra-arterial nematode of rodents. Man may become accidentally infected through ingestion of contaminated food or water. Our objective was to describe the parasite structures recognized by human antibodies in serum samples from acute and convalescent phases of abdominal angiostro...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Bender AL,Maurer RL,da Silva MC,Ben R,Terraciano PB,da Silva AC,Graeff-Teixeira C

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The objective of this study was to investigate the possible link between influenza (Flu) infection and Kawasaki disease (KD). METHODS:We examined the medical records of 1,053 KD cases and 4,669 influenza infection cases hospitalized at our institute from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2013. Cases of KD w...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Huang X,Huang P,Zhang L,Xie X,Xia S,Gong F,Yuan J,Jin L

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Human herpesviruses are frequently associated with orofacial diseases in humans (HSV-1, EBV, CMV and HHV-8), some can also cause systemic disease (CMV and HHV-8). The transmission of these viruses occurs by contact with infected secretions, especially saliva. Human immunodeficiency virus infection is assoc...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Carvalho KS,Silvestre Ede A,Maciel Sda S,Lira HI,Galvão RA,Soares MJ,Costa CH,Malaquias LC,Coelho LF

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case report of disseminated cutaneous sporotrichosis as the initial presentation of AIDS in a 24-year-old HIV-positive male patient. He presented multiple ulcerated skin lesions distributed over the face, thorax, legs and arms. Biopsy of one of the cutaneous lesions was suggestive of sporotrichosis and c...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Carvalho MT,de Castro AP,Baby C,Werner B,Filus Neto J,Queiroz-Telles F

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic chagasic cardiomyopathy remains a major cause of death due to heart failure in Latin American countries and for which there is currently no effective treatment. While chagasic patients wait for the development of more efficient and less toxic chemotherapeutics for the elimination of Trypanosoma cruzi, a new st...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： dos Santos RR,Soares MB,de Carvalho AC

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency with which condoms are used in sex relations by subjects with HIV was determined by interviewing 132 individuals, 82 men and 50 women, most of them from São Paulo state and some from other regions of the country, all of them seen at an outpatient clinic of the School of Medicine in Botucatu. The women we...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Galvão MT,Marcondes-Machado J

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) are bacterial enzymes capable of hydrolyzing beta-lactams. The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence of TEM- and SHV-type ESBL-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae strains in Zahedan, Southeast Iran. METHODS:A total of 170 non-repetitive K. pneumoniae strain...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Shahraki-Zahedani S,Rigi S,Bokaeian M,Ansari-Moghaddam A,Moghadampour M

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans is an encapsulated yeast agent of human and animal cryptococcosis. The variety neoformans is an important cause of mortality in AIDS-patients throughout the world. It has already been isolated worldwide from different environmental sources, including avian habitats. However, in spite of the occ...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Filiú WF,Wanke B,Agüena SM,Vilela VO,Macedo RC,Lazéra M

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interaction between clinical infection, vector, and population serotype immunity defines dengue epidemic risk. An endemic-sporadic epidemiological situation is an acceptable control target in metropolitan regions deficient in urban upgrading, sanitation, and health agents' access to residences, besides low residual po...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Marzochi KB

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a neglected disease, with territorial expansion and regional differences in Brazil that require explanation. This study aimed to describe changes in the epidemiology of VL in Brazil from 2001 to 2014. METHODS:The incidence rates, sociodemographic and clinical data, and case ...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Reis LLD,Balieiro AADS,Fonseca FR,Gonçalves MJF

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the State of Amazonas, Brazil, urban expansion together with precarious basic sanitation conditions and human settlement on river banks has contributed to the persistence of waterborne and intestinal parasitic diseases. Time series of the recorded cases of cholera, typhoid fever, hepatitis A and leptospirosis are d...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Martins M,Lacerda MV,Monteiro WM,Moura MA,Santos EC,Saraceni V,Saraiva MG

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis was launched with the goal of eliminating this disease via the annual mass drug administration (MDA) of a single dose of antifilarial drugs. Adverse drug reactions following MDA are a major factor of poor treatment adherence in several countries. This ...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Lima AW,Medeiros Z,Santos ZC,Costa GM,Braga C

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 2000 and 2004, a survey of Triatominae fauna (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) and examination of natural infection caused by Trypanosomatidae in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, was conducted. A total of 13,671 specimens were collected. Through fauna analysis on the insects that were caught, Triatoma sordida wa...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Almeida PS,Ceretti Júnior W,Obara MT,Santos HR,Barata JM,Faccenda O

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1992 during a trial with deltamethrin-impregnated bed nets conducted in Porto Murtinho, municipality of Costa Marques, Rondônia, in the Brazilian Amazon, we investigated community compliance and the economic aspects capable of reducing the impact of this intervention on malaria morbidity. Impregnated bed nets were ...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Santos JB

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Present report demonstrates that repeated radiation of Schistosoma mansoni-infected Biomphalaria glabrata, totaling 15,000 rads, caused a sudden, albeit transient, suppression of cercarial shedding. Initially, sporocysts practically disappeared from the snail tissues. The more resistant developing cercariae presented ...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Azevedo CM,Borges CC,Andrade ZA

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION: :Bottlenecks still exist during human immunodeficiency virus care that may delay the achievement of better outcomes. METHODS: :We established a monitoring system to trace patients throughout the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome care process in Juiz de Fora, Brazil, to ident...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Almeida MC,Araújo FF,Ortega-Jacome GP,Tuboi SH,Fernandes GC

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From September to November 1994. 21 patients with active mucosal leishmaniasis were treated with aminosidine sulphate 16 mg/kg/day by intramuscular injection for 20 days. They were principally adult male agricultural workers. Thirteen patients had not received specific treatment and eight had failed to respond to Gluc...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Romero GA,Lessa HA,Macêdo VO,Carvalho EM,Barral A,Magalhães AV,Orge MG,Abreu MV,Marsden PD

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This study aimed to evaluate the response to hepatitis B (HB) revaccination of healthcare workers (HCW) who are negative for antibodies to HB surface antigen (anti-HBs) after a complete vaccination series. METHODS:HCW whose anti-HBs test was performed > 90 days after a HB vaccination course were given a 4...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Lopes MH,Sartori AM,Souza TV,Mascheretti M,Chaves Tdo S

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We sought to determine risk factors (RFs) associated with the presence of antibodies against Leishmania in dogs from a rural area of Ilha Solteira, SP, Brazil. METHODS:Serum samples were collected from 250 dogs and tested using indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and indirect immunofluoresc...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Spada JCP,Silva DTD,Alves ML,Cárdenas NC,Inlamea OF,Faria GA,Ferreira AG,Silva HR,Oliveira TMFS,Buzetti WAS

更新日期：2020-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors evaluated clinical and epidemiological differences among the serotypes of dengue in Rio de Janeiro's 2001-2002 outbreak of the disease. Out of 362 cases that had viral isolation samples, notified by the Information System for Notification Diseases (SINAN), from January/2001 to June/2002, 62 were caused by ...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Passos MN,Santos LM,Pereira MR,Casali CG,Fortes Bde P,Ortiz Valencia LI,Alexandre Ade J,Medronho Rde A

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Mozambique is one of three countries with high prevalence of tuberculosis (TB), TB/human immunodeficiency virus coinfection, and multidrug-resistant TB. We aimed to describe Mycobacterium tuberculosis spoligotypes circulating among drug resistant (DR) strains from Beira, Mozambique comparing them with geno...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Anselmo LMP,Conceição EC,Namburete E,Feliciano C,Spindola S,Sola C,Bollela VR

更新日期：2019-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrent cutaneous or mucosal candidiasis is characterized by the occurrence of at least four candidiasis episodes within a one-year period. The factors involved in recurrence of infection are still unknown. In the present study the lymphoproliferative response and the IFN-gamma production by candidiasis patients wer...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Carvalho LP,Bacellar O,Neves NA,Carvalho EM,de Jesus AR

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Tropical spastic paraparesis/HTLV-1 associated myelopathy (TSP/HAM) is a disease caused by human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-I) that mainly infects CD4 T cells-for example, those of the CD4+CD25hiFOXP3+ [Treg] phenotype-where it inhibits forkhead box protein P3 (FOXP3) expression and promotes in...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Burbano YCB,Paz AVC,Caldon CCR,Constain JSR,Gonzáles GIÁ,Hernández JCK,Marin-Agudelo N,Dueñas-Cuellar RA,Castaño VEN

更新日期：2019-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes five additional Brazilian human cases of polycystic hydatid disease due to Echinococcus vogeli, reviews the previous cases reported in Brazil, including one report of E. oligarthus (20 in total), and some epidemiological aspects of this disease which is no longer a curiosity but rather a problem t...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： D'Alessandro A,Moraes MA,Raick AN

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ACL) occurring in the Northeast region of São Paulo state in 1992 is described. After the notification of the 12 human cases, a skin test survey of the local population was carried out in a rural area of the Itupeva municipality. The survey consisted of 144 interviews a...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Pignatti MG,Mayo RC,Alves MJ,Souza SS,Macedo F,Pereira RM

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Toxoplasmosis is an asymptomatic disease that can lead to systemic disease in the fetus of pregnant women with primary infection. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of toxoplasmosis, associated factors, and correlation between the serology of pregnant women and their pets, in the municipality of ...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Oliveira GMS,Simões JM,Schaer RE,Freire SM,Nascimento RJM,Pinheiro AMCM,Carvalho SMS,Mariano APM,Carvalho RC,Munhoz AD

更新日期：2019-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Few cases of concurrent leishmaniasis and HIV infection have been reported in Brazil, despite both infections being in expansion. Two cases of visceral leishmaniasis and two cases of mucocutaneous leishmaniasis are discussed. Disseminated skin and oral lesions were found in the patients with the cutaneous form of the ...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Borges AS,Machado AA,Ferreira MS,de Castro Figueiredo JF,Silva GF,Cimerman S,Bacha HA,Teixeira MC

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The aim of this study was to estimate the incidence of tuberculous meningitis in the State of Santa Catarina (SC), Brazil, during the period from 2001 to 2010. METHODS:Ecological, temporal, and descriptive methods were employed using data obtained from the Information System on Disease Notification (Siste...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Souza CH,Yamane A,Pandini JC,Ceretta LB,Ferraz F,da Luz GD,Simões PW

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A list of 8 type specimens belonging to the Subfamily Triatominaeis deposited in the Entomological Collection of the Instituto Butantan. This note reports a chronological description of the Collection including 343 specimens represented by 5 species of Panstrongylus, 18 species of Triatoma, 2 species of Psamolestes an...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Marassá AM,Barata JM

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00