Angiostrongylus costaricensis: first record of its occurrence in the State of Espirito Santo, Brazil, and a review of its geographic distribution.

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：:The aim of the present work was to determine the prevalence of IgG and IgM anti-Toxoplasma gondii antibodies and the factors associated to the infection in pregnant women attended in Basic Health Units in Rolândia, Paraná, Brazil. The sample was divided in two groups: group I (320 pregnant women who were analyzed from...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Dias RC,Lopes-Mori FM,Mitsuka-Breganó R,Dias RA,Tokano DV,Reiche EM,Freire RL,Navarro IT

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：:Staphylococcal Coagglutination was used as method for a rapid identification of mycoplasmas that could be performed by non specialized laboratories. Suspensions of Staphylococcus aureus (Cowan I) sensitized with rabbit antibodies against NCTC mycoplasma strains have identified these microorganisms and the strains isol...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Timenetsky J,Curcio M

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sample preparation and DNA extraction protocols for DNA amplification by PCR, which can be applied in human fecal samples for taeniasis diagnosis, are described. DNA extracted from fecal specimens with phenol/chloroform/isoamilic alcohol and DNAzol reagent had to be first purified to generate fragments of 170 pb and 6...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Nunes CM,Lima LG,Manoel CS,Pereira RN,Nakano MM,Garcia JF

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Public parks are leisure environments widely used by both, adults and children, often accompained by their pets. Soil contamination of these environments by enteric viruses and intestinal parasites occurs through these animals feces. The aim of this work was to detect Carnivore protoparvovirus 1 (CPV-1) and different ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Eisen AKA,Demoliner M,Oliveira KG,Troian EA,Mallmann L,Filippi M,Almeida PR,Spilki FR

更新日期：2019-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of TNF-alpha in patients with Kala-azar has drawn increasing interest due to its regulatory role on the immune system, in addition to its cachetizing activity. The objective of this study was to examine the association between plasma levels of TNF-alpha, measured by immunoreactivity (ELISA) and bioactivity ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Salomão R,Castelo Filho A,de Medeiros IM,Sicolo MA

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophils, eosinophils and macrophages are cells that interact with invading parasites and naive hosts have been shown to have anti-parasitic activity. The initial reaction of these leukocytes is the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) to play in parasite expulsion. The present work was carried out to study ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Pugine SM,Faria MF,Maia AA,Valle CR,Boschini C,Poleti MD,Silva MR,De Melo MP

更新日期：2005-03-01 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：: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：:This study examined the association between oral candidiasis in elderly users and nonusers of prosthesis and its predisposing factors. To this end, we performed a cross-sectional study where saliva samples from 48 patients were collected they used prosthesis and 43 patients (control group) who did not use. Among the 9...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Bianchi CM,Bianchi HA,Tadano T,Paula CR,Hoffmann-Santos HD,Leite DP Jr,Hahn RC

更新日期：2016-01-01 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

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：:This study aims to assess the association between schistosomiasis and hookworm infection with hemoglobin levels of schoolchildren in northern Mozambique. Through a cross-sectional survey, 1,015 children from five to 12 years old in the provinces of Nampula, Cabo Delgado and Niassa were studied. Hookworm infection and ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Casmo V,Augusto G,Nala R,Sabonete A,Carvalho-Costa FA

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty Candida albicans isolated from oral candidosis patients and 30 C. albicans isolated from control individuals were studied. In vitro susceptibility tests were performed for amphotericin B, fluconazole, 5-flucytosine and itraconazole through the Clinical and Laboratorial Standards Institute (CLSI) reference metho...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Koga-Ito CY,Lyon JP,Resende MA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of anesthetic drugs on the localization of adult worms in albino mice was compared. The animals with 56 days of infection were anesthetized with pentobarbital sodium, ether or chloroform. Perfusion was carried out immediately after, recovering the worms and classifying them in relation to their localization...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Machado e Silva JR,de Lima MA,Rodrigues e Silva R,Maldonado Júnior A,Presgrave OA,Rey L

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of already published and unpublished seroepidemiological surveys for toxoplasmosis, carried out in Chile in 1982-1994, is reviewed, expanded and analyzed. The surveys included 76,317 apparently healthy individuals of different ages (0.57% of the country's total population), from 309 urban and rural-periurban ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Contreras M,Schenone H,Salinas P,Sandoval L,Rojas A,Villarroel F,Solis F

更新日期：1996-11-01 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：:Formalin-killed promastigotes (FKP) of Leishmania major, in combination with Montanide ISA 720 (MISA), BCG or alum were used in vaccination of an inbred murine model against cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL). Significant and specific increases in anti-FKP IgG responses were detected for both alum-FKP and BCG-FKP compared t...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Mutiso JM,Macharia JC,Mutisya RM,Taracha E

更新日期：2010-03-01 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 group of 16 patients with endemic pemphigus foliaceus under corticotherapy and still showing erythematous, papulous, verrucous, in general hyperpigmented lesions, which were characterized as cortico therapy resistant lesions, were studied. Such study was made through anatomopathology and direct immunofluorescence (D...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： dos Reis VM,Cucé LC,Rivitti EA

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hundred and fifteen cases of bites by adult Bothrops jararaca (group A) were admitted to the Hospital Vital Brasil between 1981 and 1987. These cases were compared to 562 cases of bites by young snakes of the same species (group B) during the same period and at the same hospital. In group B blood incoagulability ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Ribeiro LA,Jorge MT

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleural effusions are rare events accompanying histoplasmosis, and in general they are associated with acute forms of the disease. It is described here a case of histoplasmoma associated with pleuritic pain and pleural effusion. ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： de Almeida MC,Vianna LG,Moraes MA

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of an ultramicroanalytic system (SUMA) and species-specific antigen of M. leprae obtained by chemical synthesis, have made possible the standardization and validation of an ultramicroELISA assay for detecting specific human IgM antibodies to this mycobacterium. The specificity of this test to demonstr...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Laferte J,Abreu EG,Robaina R,Verez V

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) is an autoimmune disease characterized by blistering of the skin and mucosa, which develops due to the interaction between predisposing genetic and environmental factors. Infections caused by members of the Herpesviridae family have been suggested as a possible triggering factor for P...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Brandão ML,Fernandes NC,Batista DP,Santos N

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paracoccidioidomycosis is a chronic granulomatous disease that induces a specific inflammatory and immune response. The participation of nitric oxide (NO), a product of the inducible nitric oxide synthase enzyme (iNOS), as an important fungicidal molecule against Paracoccidioides brasiliensis has been demonstrated. In...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Batista AC,Soares CT,Lara VS

更新日期：2005-09-01 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

abstract：:We report the first case of human ocular sparganosis in the state of Santa Catarina, southern Brazil. A young female patient presented with three periocular moveable inflammatory masses in her right eye, during two years. By surgical excisional biopsy, a helminth larval stage was removed and identified as sparganum. C...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Mentz MB,Procianoy F,Maestri MK,Rott MB

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this article is to present an investigation of cure rate, after long follow up, of specific chemotherapy with benznidazole in patients with both acute and chronic Chagas disease, applying quantitative conventional serological tests as the base of the criterion of cure. Twenty one patients with the acute for...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Cancado JR

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was carried out on the occurrence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in 1,100 diarrheal feces, routinely sent to a private clinical laboratory for microbiologic diagnosis, in Recife. V. parahaemolyticus was isolated from 14 (1.3%) fecal samples. However, if we considered only the specimens from adult patients, the iso...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Magalhães V,Lima RA,Tateno S,Magalhães M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00