Hand-foot-and-mouth disease epidemiological status and relationship with meteorological variables in Guangzhou, southern China, 2008-2012.

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 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：:In view of the high circulation of migratory birds and the environmental and climatic conditions which favor the proliferation of arthropods, the Brazilian Pantanal is susceptible to circulation of arboviruses. However, the amount of data concerning arbovirus vectors in this area is scarce; therefore the aim of this s...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Pauvolid-Corrêa A,Tavares FN,Alencar J,Silva Jdos S,Murta M,Serra-Freire NM,Pellegrin AO,Gil-Santana H,Guimarães AE,Silva EE

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cryptosporidiosis is an infection caused by Cryptosporidium spp, a coccidial protozoan of emergencial pathogenicity and responsible for severe and prostrating watery diarrhea, mainly in immunocompromised patients. Smears of stools submitted to concentration and staining by carbol fuchsin technique has been used ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Martinez I,Belda Neto FM

更新日期：2001-03-01 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：: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：:In Brazil, the main etiologic agent of Leishmaniasis that frequently presents with mucosal involvement belongs to the Viannia subgenus. The therapeutic conduct in this disease depends on the parasitological diagnosis, and classical methods are restricted in identifying the agent. In this paper we describe a polymerase...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Paiva BR,Passos LN,Falqueto A,Malafronte Rdos S,Andrade HF Jr

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giardia duodenalis isolates from asymptomatic or symptomatic patients and from animals present similarities and differences in the protein composition, antigenic profile, pattern of proteases and isoenzymes, as well as in nucleic acids analysis. In the present overview, these differences and similarities are reviewed ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Guimarães S,Sogayar MI,de Franco MF

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of small ultrasonographic equipment has permitted to incorporate this technique to the methods of early detection of Human Hydatidosis. 689 echographies were carried out in this experience, and 5.51% of compatible images in the whole population, and 12.24% in groups of risk (those living together with ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Larrieu E,Frider B,Andreani G,Andreani G,Aquino A,De La Fuente R

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotavirus and pathogenic free-living amoebae are causative agents of important health problems, especially for developing countries like Pakistan where the population has limited access to clean water supplies. Here, we evaluated the prevalence of rotavirus and free-living amoebae (Acanthamoeba spp., Balamuthia mandri...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Yousuf FA,Siddiqui R,Khan NA

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giardia intestinalis infection is prevalent throughout the world and widely distributed in developing countries. In general, children display serious consequences to their state of health, including slow height-weight development; therefore, the main aim of this study was to determine the association between Giardia i...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Botero-Garcés JH,García-Montoya GM,Grisales-Patiño D,Aguirre-Acevedo DC,Alvarez-Uribe MC

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：: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：:The aim of this study was to compare the fecundity and fertility of B. glabrata and B. straminea by cross- and self-fertilization. To attain this objective, laboratory-raised strains of B. glabrata and B. straminea were used. The former originated from natural breeding grounds in the municipality Paulista, state of Pe...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Costa MJ,Grault CE,Confalonieri UE

更新日期：2004-05-01 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：:Treatment with dexamethasone (DMS) in the early phases of the experimental Schistosoma mansoni infection causes an indirect effect on the cercaria-schistosomulum transformation process. This is observed when naive albino mice are treated with that drug (50 mg/Kg, subcutaneously) and infected intraperitoneally 01 hour ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： de Melo AL,Hermeto MV,Bicalho RS,Vargas AP,Favaretto FJ,Pereira LH

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：: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：:The snail density, levels of infection and the monthly production of Schistosoma mansoni cercariae by Biomphalaria glabrata were determined in a focus of Barreiro de Baixo (Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil). During a period of 38 months (1984 to 1987) 5,366 snails were collected of which 324 (6.03%) were infected with S. ma...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： de Souza CP,Araújo N,Jannotti-Passos LK,Guimarães CT

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sedimentation technique is described, in which a fecal suspension is placed on top of an aqueous sucrose solution of specific gravity 1.015 g/cm3. Using 100 by 15 mm test tubes, duplicate gravity sedimentation experiments were made using homogenized fecal suspensions (single-columns) and fecal suspensions placed on ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Moitinho Mda L,Ferreira CS

更新日期：1992-05-01 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：: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 nematode Calodium hepaticum (syn. Capillaria hepatica) is a zoonotic helminth found mainly infecting rats. It was studied the prevalence of C. hepaticum infection in Rattus norvegicus in an urban area of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), with low urban planning and sanitation. The presence of C. hepaticum was identified th...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Simões RO,Luque JL,Faro MJ,Motta E,Maldonado A

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the 424 serum samples examined, the prevalence of hepatitis virus infection turned out to be 89.6%, with 15.6% of HBsAg positivity. Some of the samples belonged to an afferent population and some other to workers of a West Africa rural hospital (Pop. Rep. of Benin). 27.3% of the positive subjects presented activ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Zanchetta N,Vigano P,Ferrario MP,Priuli GB,Djigbenoude O,Nardi GP,Pagano A

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high mortality rates associated with candidemia episodes and the emergence of resistance to antifungal agents necessitate the monitoring of the susceptibility of fungal isolates to antifungal treatments. The new, recently approved, species-specific clinical breakpoints (SS-CBPs)(M27-S4) for evaluating susceptibili...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Santos ER,Dal Forno CF,Hernandez MG,Kubiça TF,Venturini TP,Chassot F,Santurio JM,Alves SH

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Canine visceral leishmaniasis (CVL) is recognizable by characteristic signs of disease and is highly lethal. The infection, however, may be quite inapparent in some seropositive dogs, and this has raised the polemic question as to whether or not such animals can be a source of infection for Lutzomyia longipalpis, the ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Lima LV,Carneiro LA,Campos MB,Chagas EJ,Laurenti MD,Corbett CE,Lainson R,Silveira FT

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is found in indigenous peoples of the Pacific Islands and the Americas, whereas type 2 (HTLV-2) is widely distributed among the indigenous peoples of the Americas, where it appears to be more prevalent than HTLV-1, and in some tribes of Central Africa. HTLV-2 is considered an...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Paiva A,Casseb J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromoblastomycosis (CBM) is a chronic subcutaneous infection caused by several dematiaceous fungi. The most commonly etiological agent found in Brazil is Fonsecaea pedrosoi, which appears as thick walled, brownish colored cells with transverse and longitudinal division in the lesions, called "muriform cells". This di...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Vidal MS,de Castro LG,Cavalecate SC,Lacaz Cda S

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the concordance between two versions of the scoring system (2011 and 2019), recommended by the Brazilian Ministry of Health, for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in children and adolescents. A retrospective descriptive study was performed to assess the medical records...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Carvalho RF,Carvalho ACC,Velarde LGC,Rossoni AMO,Aurilio RB,Sias SMA,Schmidt CM,Moreira ADSR,Martins PDS,Gonçalves LI,Martire TM,Barbosa APF,Santos APQD,Romanelli RMC,Oliveira MDGR,Diniz LMO,Carvalho AL,Lucena SC,Cruz

更新日期：2020-10-30 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