Clinical and endoscopic findings in the mucosae of the upper respiratory and digestive tracts in post-treatment follow-up of paracoccidioidomycosis patients.

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：:The aim of this cross-sectional study was to determine, among medical students at a public university in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the acceptance of the pandemic influenza A/H1N1 vaccine during the 2010 mass immunization campaign and the vaccine safety in this group and, among unvaccinated students, the reasons for refu...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Souza EP,Teixeira Mde S

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunosuppressed animals respond poorly to schistosomal chemotherapy and a proper response can be restored by the administration of immune serum. Present study attempts to search whether immunological stimulation would increase drug effectiveness. Swiss mice infected with 50 S. mansoni cercariae were later treated wit...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Silva LM,Andrade ZA

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:Surfacen® is an exogenous natural lung surfactant, composed by phospholipids and hydrophobic proteins, which is applied successfully in Newborn Respiratory Distress Syndrome. In this paper, in vitro activity of Surfacen® against Leishmania amazonensis is described. The product showed activity against the amastigote fo...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Blanco O,Lugones Y,Díaz E,Monzote L

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evaluation of workers as potential reservoirs and disseminators of pathogenic bacteria has been described as a strategy for the prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). The aim of this study was to evaluate the presence of Enterobacteriaceae in the oral cavity of workers at an oncology ho...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Leão-Vasconcelos LS,Lima AB,Costa Dde M,Rocha-Vilefort LO,Oliveira AC,Gonçalves NF,Vieira JD,Prado-Palos MA

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) is becoming one of the extremely common airborne and contact transmission diseases in Guangzhou, southern China, leading public health authorities to be concerned about its increased incidence. In this study, it was used an ecological study plus the negative binomial regression to id...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Li T,Yang Z,Liu X,Kang Y,Wang M

更新日期：2014-11-01 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：:Postsurgical acute suppurative parotitis is a bacterial gland infection that occurs from a few days up to some weeks after abdominal surgical procedures. In this study, the authors analyze the prevalence of this complication in Hospital das Clínicas/São Paulo University Medical School by prospectively reviewing the ch...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Belczak SQ,Cleva RD,Utiyama EM,Cecconello I,Rasslan S,Parreira JG

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Even though there are data published on HPV epidemiology in Ecuador, the distribution of genotypes in Guayaquil, the largest city in the country, has not been previously determined in a study including including both, men and women. The present study aimed to determine the distribution of 37 HPV genotypes in genital s...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Muentes GDG,García MAM,Galárraga RIB,Ollague K,Wachter CV,Cabezas JCR

更新日期：2019-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:An epidemiological survey with histoplasmin skin test was performed in 392 poultry farmers and 265 workers considered without occupational risk of exposition to Histoplasma capsulatum, etiologic agent of histoplasmosis. The results were positive in 28.8% and 13.2% in both groups respectively. Statistically, there was ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Suárez Hernández M,Fernández Andreu CM,Estrada Ortiz A,Cisneros Despaigne E

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of a 42 year-old female, who came to a leishmaniasis reference center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, presenting a cutaneous leishmaniasis lesion in the right forearm. Treatment with low-dose intramuscular meglumine antimoniate (MA) (5 mg Sb5+/kg/day) was initiated, with improvement after 28 days, although...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Ferreira e Vasconcellos Ede C,Pimentel MI,Valete-Rosalino CM,Madeira Mde F,Schubach Ade O

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:Envenomation by coral snakes (Micrurus sp.) is one of the most dangerous injuries in America and it is considered as a serious medical emergency, however bites by these snakes appear to be rare. We analyzed epidemiological data, clinical signs and antivenom use in Argentina during the period between 1979-2003. During ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： de Roodt AR,De Titto E,Dolab JA,Chippaux JP

更新日期：2013-01-01 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

abstract：:A cross-sectional study on the prevalence of schistosomiasis mansoni in three sites of the "Baixada Ocidental Maranhense" was carried out in 1993 in: Alegre (in the municipality of São Bento), Aliança (in Cururupu) and Coroatá II (in the municipality of São João Batista). Results were compared to those of another stud...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Cutrim RN,Chieffi PP,de Moraes JC

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the findings of a survey for intestinal parasites among the Xavánte Indians from Central Brazil. A. lumbricoides (25.0%) and hookworms (33.6%) were the two most common helminths; E. histolytica complex (7.8%) and G. lamblia (8.6%) the most common protozoans. The majority (58.5%) of positive individu...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Santos RV,Coimbra Júnior CE,Flowers NM,Silva JP

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) often have opportunistic infections, among which strongyloidiasis and coccidiosis are the most common parasitic infections that aggravate their health status. This study examined the prevalence of intestinal parasites, particularly of Strongyloides stercora...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Barcelos NB,Silva LFE,Dias RFG,Menezes Filho HR,Rodrigues RM

更新日期：2018-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control study was conducted to identify risk factors for death from tetanus in the State of Pernambuco, Brazil. Information was obtained from medical records of 152 cases and 152 controls, admitted to the tetanus unit in the State University Hospital, in Recife, from 1990 to 1995. Variables were grouped in thre...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Miranda-Filho DB,Ximenes RA,Bernardino SN,Escarião AG

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptosporidium spp. and Cystoisospora belli are monoxenic protozoa that have been recognized as the causative agents of chronic diarrhea in immunocompromised individuals, especially HIV-infected subjects. The objective of this study was to evaluate the frequency of these intestinal protozoa in HIV-positive patients i...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Assis DC,Resende DV,Cabrine-Santos M,Correia D,Oliveira-Silva MB

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article doi: 10.1590/s1678-9946201961041]. ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors：

更新日期：2019-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma cruzi (Schyzotrypanum, Chagas, 1909), and Chagas disease are endemic in captive-reared baboons at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, Texas. We obtained PCR amplification products from DNA extracted from sucking lice collected from the hair and skin of T. cruzi-infected baboons, ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Argañaraz ER,Hubbard GB,Ramos LA,Ford AL,Nitz N,Leland MM,Vandeberg JL,Teixeira AR

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two naturally infected dogs (male and female) from Teófilo Otoni (MG-Brazil) were maintained for 18 months in our laboratory. Two other dogs, two months old males were infected with 1 x 10(6) promastigotes of MHO/BR/70/BH46 Leishmania (Leishmania) chagasi strain, endovenous route, and autopsied after 10 months and two...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Tafuri WL,Michalick MS,Dias M,Genaro O,Leite VH,Barbosa AJ,Bambirra EA,da Costa CA,Melo MN,Mayrink W

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dissemination of the giant African snail Achatina fulica in several countries has triggered a great number of studies on the mollusk, including those on zoonoses related to health in humans. The current research is a scientific survey on articles published in four databases, namely, PubMed, Bireme, Scielo and Lila...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Pavanelli GC,Yamaguchi MU,Calaça EA,Oda FH

更新日期：2017-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The humoral and cellular immune responses as well as the resistance to infection with bloodstream forms of T. cruzi were studied in mice immunized with acidic antigenic fractions from parasite cytosol, F III and F IV, plus Bordetella pertussis as adjuvant. The immunization with F III induced positive ITH and DTH respo...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Gea S,Gruppi A,Cerban F,Pistoresi Palencia MC,Vottero-Cima E

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasmosis is frequently acquired through the oral route by the ingestion of cysts or oocysts of Toxoplasma gondii. Once ingested, the parasites penetrate the intestinal epithelial cells and rapidly disseminate to all organs in the host. During T. gondii infection, the intestinal microbiota plays an important role ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Ribeiro Cde M,Zorgi NE,Meireles LR,Garcia JL,Andrade Junior HF

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fasciola hepatica somatic antigen, its partially purified fractions and excretion-secretion products were investigated as to serological, electrophoretic and biological properties. In a Sephadex G-100 column (SG-100), Fasciola hepatica total antigen (FhTA) gave 5 fractions, and SDS-PAGE analysis showed they were glyco...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Cervi LA,Rubinstein H,Masih DT

更新日期：1992-11-01 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：:The 4-year study (1987-1990) covered the major clinical-epidemiological characteristics of pneumonia in children as diagnosed at the emergency service of the Children's Hospital, as well as etiologies, and factors involved in the most severe cases. Etiology was determined in 47.7% of the 541 pneumonia cases, involving...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Hortal M,Suarez A,Deleon C,Estevan M,Mogdasy MC,Russi JC,Contera M,Meny M

更新日期：1994-05-01 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