Secondary syphilis presenting as a corymbiform syphilide: case report and review.

abstract：:Fifty patients with epilepsy seen in three Londrina Neurological Services, in Paraná, were studied. The positivity prevalence of the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for cysticercosis in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and in the serum of these patients was 34.0% and 20.0%, respectively. There was statistically...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Bonametti AM,Basile MA,Vaz AJ,Baldy JL,Takiguti CK

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli causes various ailments such as septicemia, enteritis, foodborne illnesses, and urinary tract infections which are of concern in the public health field due to antibiotic resistance. Silver nanoparticles (AgNP) are known for their biocompatibility and antibacterial activity, and may prove to be an alt...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Ashmore D,Chaudhari A,Barlow B,Barlow B,Harper T,Vig K,Miller M,Singh S,Nelson E,Pillai S

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：: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：:The Authors report a case of paracoccidioidomycosis in a Surui Indian patient from the state of Rondonia, Brazilian Amazon. The subject is an adult male, having been diagnosed on the basis of mycologic, serologic, and radiographic exams. The prescribed therapy was sulphamethoxazole 800 mg associated with trimethoprim ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： do Valle AC,Coimbra Júnior CE,Llinares FI,Monteiro PC,Guimarães MR

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical examination of nails was carried out in 210 elderly patients and nail scrapings were obtained from onychomycosis suggested lesions in order to determine their causative agents, incidence and clinical characteristics. Diagnostic was confirmed by the isolation of the agents from 74 patients, mainly from toe-nai...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Rodríguez-Soto ME,Fernández-Andreu CM,Moya Duque S,Rodríguez Díaz RM,Martínez-Machín G

更新日期：1993-05-01 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：: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：:Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) infection is often silent and can lead to long-term reproductive complications in women. In this study, we determined the prevalence of CT infection and possible associations between the presence of the infection and clinical-epidemiological variables in pregnant women attended at the Basic ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Azevedo MJN,Nunes SDS,Oliveira FG,Rocha DAP

更新日期：2019-02-14 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：: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：:Paracoccidioidomycosis and histoplasmosis are systemic fungal infections endemic in Brazil. Disseminated clinical forms are uncommon in immunocompetent individuals. We describe two HIV-negative patients with disseminated fungal infections, paracoccidioidomycosis and histoplasmosis, who were diagnosed by biopsies of su...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Pereira GH,Lanzoni VP,Beirão EM,Timerman A,Melhem Mde S

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The municipality of Cantagalo is an area with sustained transmission of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ACL). Monthly sand fly collections were performed for three years (June 2012 - May 2015) using a CDC light trap. A total of 3,310 specimens belonging to 12 species were trapped: Nyssomyia intermedia, Nyssomyia whi...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Peres-Dias QN,Oliveira CD,Souza MB,Meira Ade M,Villanova CB

更新日期：2016-07-11 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：:Capnocytophaga is a group of facultative anaerobic gram-negative bacteria present in the oral cavity of humans, dogs and cats, as part of their normal oral flora. Here, we described two cases of bloodstream infections (BSI) caused by Capnocytophaga in neutropenic autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (aut...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Mendes FR,Bruniera FR,Schmidt J,Cury AP,Rizeck C,Higashino H,Oliveira FN,Rossi F,Rocha V,Costa SF

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aims to detect the production of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBL) by enterobacteria isolated from samples of fresh shrimp and fish obtained from the retail trade of the city of Sobral, Ceará State, Brazil. All bacterial isolates were submitted to identification and antimicrobial susceptibilit...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Almeida MVA,Cangussú ÍM,Carvalho ALS,Brito ILP,Costa RA

更新日期：2017-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying the true prevalence of human T-cell lymphotropic virus, mostly type 1 (HTLV-1), and the number of patients with HTLV-1-associated diseases, in addition to introducing HTLV-1/2 serology during the prenatal of pregnant women and in individuals infected with other viruses that share transmission routes with H...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Silva RXD,Campos KR,Caterino-de-Araujo A

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromoblastomycosis is a chronic fungal infection. Itraconazole and terbinafine are the most recommended antifungal drugs for chromoblastomycosis, while amphotericin B is not usually recommended. A patient with chromoblastomycosis in our hospital showed poor clinical responses to itraconazole and terbinafine. The fungus...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Zhang J,Wu X,Li M,Huang J,Yin S,Huang H,Lu C,Xi L

更新日期：2019-06-19 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：: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：: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 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：:The prevalence of thermotolerant Campylobacter in diarrhoeic and healthy children as well as in dogs, hens, ducks and pigeons was determined in Southern Chile. Campylobacter were found in 34.5% of the faecal samples examined. The isolation rate of Campylobacter in diarrhoeic and healthy children was 16.3% and 6.4% res...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Fernández H,Kahler K,Salazar R,Ríos MA

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty eight paralysis cases classified as Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) in Brazil were analysed. In all these cases Sabin-related poliovirus vaccine strains were isolated. In most of the cases the last vaccine dose was given months or years before the onset of GBS, suggesting a persistent infection or the transmissio...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Friedrich F,Filippis AM,Schatzmayr HG

更新日期：1996-01-01 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 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：:This clinical case presents a patient with a raised and ulcerative lesion with erythematous edges in the mouth, on the lower lip that was unsuccessfully treated as herpes labialis. Clinical data and laboratory tests (Montenegro skin test, indirect immunofluorescence, direct parasite search and polymerase chain reactio...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Oyama J,Ferreira FBP,Conter CC,Lera-Nonose DSSL,Ramos-Milaré ÁCFH,Venazzi EAS,Silveira TGV,Lonardoni MVC

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：:Pathogenic Yersinia pestis isolates were collected during a plague outbreak at the Paraiba State in 1986. The Y. pestis isolates were investigated for the presence of virulence-associated factors and plasmid content. All strains analysed were proficient in the expression of the VW and fraction 1 antigens, pigment adso...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Leal NC,de Almeida AM,Ferreira LC

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to better understand the biology of Centrocestus formosanus in a definitive host model, mice of Swiss and AKR/J strains were experimentally infected with 100 metacercariae of the parasite. Fourteen days post-infection, the rodents were killed and adult trematodes were recovered from the small intestine. The p...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Mati VL,Pinto HA,Melo AL

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00