Membrane fractions from Strongyloides venezuelensis in the immunodiagnosis of human strongyloidiasis.

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：: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：:Two cases of ectopic cutaneous schistosomiasis are described. Both patients presented with abdominal papular skin lesions, which on biopsy were found to contain granulomas with Schistosoma mansoni eggs. Twenty-five other cases were retrieved from the literature. Most patients were female, mean age 24.9 year, with a pr...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Andrade Filho Jde S,Lopes MS,Corgozinho Filho AA,Pena GP

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 39-year old male patient was admitted to the University Hospital of the Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão, Preto with signs and symptoms of sudden dyspnea, generalized myalgia and behavioral disorders. The initial suspicion was alcohol abstinence syndrome and the patient was referred for psychiatric and neurologic car...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Silva JM,Silva AA,Ferreira AH,Monteiro ME,Santiago RC,Passos AD

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptosporidium spp. are important cause of enteric disease in humans, but may also infect animals. This study describes the relative frequency of several Cryptosporidium species found in human specimens from HIV infected patients in the São Paulo municipality obtained from January to July 2007. Sequence analysis of t...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Lucca Pd,De Gaspari EN,Bozzoli LM,Funada MR,Silva SO,Iuliano W,Soares RM

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous experiences have demonstrated the same ABO system and P system antigens in A. lumbricoides extracts and in their hosts. The aim was to show the behavior of an A. lumbricoides extract from an O Group patient against monoclonal antibodies of different specificities. Agglutination Inhibition Tests were carried o...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Ponce de León P,Foresto P,Valverde J

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 73 isolates (57 Enterobacter cloacae and 16 Enterobacter agglomerans), recovered during an outbreak of bacteremia in the Campinas area, São Paulo, Brazil, were studied. Of these isolates, 61 were from parenteral nutrition solutions, 9 from blood cultures, 2 from a sealed bottle of parenteral nutrition solut...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Gonçalves CR,Vaz TM,Leite D,Pisani B,Simoes M,Prandi MA,Rocha MM,Cesar PC,Trabasso P,von Nowakonski A,Irino K

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chronic infection (10 years) by Lagochilascaris minor is described in a woman from the amazon region of Colombia. This is the third case of infection by this parasite that has been described so far in Colombia, and only the first one in a person coming from the Colombian Amazon region. ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Moncada LI,Alvarez CA,Castellanos C,Caceres E,Nicholls S,Corredor A

更新日期：1998-11-01 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 new conglomerate family sample of 194 dwellings with 996 resident persons were studied in the town of Barcelos, State of Amazonas, in order to re-evaluate the risk of Chagas disease. During the survey the persons were interviewed and in this occasion we showed to them a collection of Panstrongylus, Rhodnius and Tria...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Coura JR,Junqueira AC,Boia MN,Fernandes O,Bonfante C,Campos JE,Santos L,Devera R

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency and class of immediate-type hypersensitivity manifestations were studied in 494 snakebitten and scorpion stung patients who were treated with intravenous injections of antivenom sera. These patients were admitted to HC-FMRPUSP from 1983 to 1988. The effectiveness of a hypersensitivity skin test was also ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Cupo P,Azevedo-Marques MM,de Menezes JB,Hering SE

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pair matched case/control study was conducted from January 1991 to 30 June 1992 in order to define clinical and laboratory findings associated with DMAC infection in AIDS patients. Since DMAC infection is usually associated with advanced immunodeficiency, and therefore also with other opportunistic illnesses, in add...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Rolla V,Jacomet C,Salause B,Wirbel E,Perez M,Daniel-Ribeiro CT,Rozenbaum W

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical trial pilot study, double-blinded, randomized, and controlled with a placebo to assess the effectiveness of oral doxycycline (200 mg, single dose) in preventing leptospirosis after high exposure to potentially contaminated water was performed in São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Confirmed cases were defined as those w...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Gonsalez CR,Casseb J,Monteiro FG,Paula-Neto JB,Fernandez RB,Silva MV,Camargo ED,Mairinque JM,Tavares LC

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:We all hope that biotechnology will answer some social and economical unavoidable requirements of the modern life. It is necessary to improve agriculture production, food abundance and health quality in a sustainable development. It is indeed a hard task to keep the progress on taking into account the rational use of ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Simões-Barbosa A,Simões Barbosa C,Simões Barbosa F

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three isolates over 5 years from a patient with persistent relapsing mucosal leishmaniasis due to Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis and 7 clones from one of these isolates were studied by zymodemes and serodemes analysis. Results showed evidences of clonal phenotypic variation. Eight isoenzymes markers demonstrated cl...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Cuba-Cuba CA,Evans D,Rosa Ade C,Marsden PD

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, Leishmania species were identified by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). The epidemiology of patients suspected of having American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in the municipality of Assis Brasil, Acre State, located in the Brazil/Peru/Bolivia tri-border was also investigated. By PCR, the DNA of Leishmania was...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Teles CB,Medeiros JF,Santos AP,Freitas LA,Katsuragawa TH,Cantanhêde LM,Ferreira Rde G,Camarg LM

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：:Three autochthonous cases of cutaneous-ganglionar rickettsiosis transmitted by dogs ticks (Amblyomma maculatum in one of them) are reported. Two of the three cases were undoubtely produced by Rickettsia conorii according to the results of the specific indirect immunofluorescence technique IEF-IgM anti R. conorii. A th...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Conti-Diaz IA,Rubio I,Somma Moreira RE,Pérez Bórmida G

更新日期：1990-09-01 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：:Three patients with the diagnosis of subacute juvenile paracoccidioidomycosis who, at the time of their first visit, had no signs or symptoms of lung involvement were studied. Initially the diagnosis was confirmed by the observation of P. brasiliensis in biopsy material obtained from clinically involved lymphadenopath...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Restrepo A,Trujillo M,Gomez I

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:A clinical case of cerebral infection by parenchymal racemose cysticercus, diagnosed by means of morphological characteristics in a patient of Valdivia city is described. The rare frequency of parenchymal location of racemose cysticercus as well as its differential diagnosis with other larval stages of cestodes that d...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Ortega E,Torres P

更新日期：1991-05-01 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：:Neurocysticercosis (NC), the presence of Taenia solium metacestodes in tissues, is the most frequent and severe parasitic infection of the central nervous system. We investigated the presence of total IgE by an automated chemiluminescence assay in 53 paired cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and serum samples from patients wit...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Bueno EC,Vaz AJ,Machado Ld,Livramento JA

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal parasites are a problem for public health all over the world. The infection with Blastocystis, a protozoan of controversial pathogenicity, is one of the most common among them all. In this study, the occurrence of intestinal parasites, with emphasis on Blastocystis, in patients at the Universidade Federal d...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Cabrine-Santos M,Cintra Edo N,do Carmo RA,Nascentes GA,Pedrosa AL,Correia D,Oliveira-Silva MB

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：: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：:Cerebral phaeohyphomycosis ("chromoblastomycosis") is a rare intracranial lesion. We report the first human culture-proven case of brain abscesses due to Fonsecaea pedrosoi in Brazil. The patient, a 28 year-old immunocompetent white male, had ocular manifestations and a hypertensive intracranial syndrome. Magnetic res...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Nóbrega JP,Rosemberg S,Adami AM,Heins-Vaccari EM,Lacaz Cda S,de Brito T

更新日期：2003-07-01 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