Rotavirus genotyping in gastroenteritis cases of an infantile population from Western Brazilian Amazonia.

abstract：:Despite the relative frequency of opportunistic fungal infections among hemodialysis patients, the reservoirs for these microorganisms in the environment remain unknown, although some recent studies have made correlations with the water supply as their source. The objective of the present study was to monitor the myco...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Varo SD,Martins CH,Cardoso MJ,Sartori FG,Montanari LB,Pires-Gonçalves RH

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Renal damage is a consequence of severe malaria, and is generally caused by sequestration of Plasmodium falciparum -infected erythrocytes in the renal microcirculation, which leads to obstruction, hypoxia, and ischemia. This triggers high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) to send a danger signal through toll-li...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Fitri LE,Rosmarwati E,Rizky Y,Budiarti N,Samsu N,Mintaroem K

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Triatomines are targeted for the control of Chagas disease in endemic areas of Brazil. METHODS:Data regarding triatomines captured during 2001-2008 in 34 municipalities in the Northeast of Minas Gerais were analyzed. RESULTS:In total, 11,187 triatomines from eight species were captured, mostly in henhous...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Dias JV,Fernandes EG,Pires HH,Dias JC

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION: :Bottlenecks still exist during human immunodeficiency virus care that may delay the achievement of better outcomes. METHODS: :We established a monitoring system to trace patients throughout the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome care process in Juiz de Fora, Brazil, to ident...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Almeida MC,Araújo FF,Ortega-Jacome GP,Tuboi SH,Fernandes GC

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven cases of patients with ectopic schistosomiasis from the State of Sergipe, Brazil, are presented (five involving skin, one ovarian and one adrenal). Data were collected from surveying the clinical records and anatomopathological reports in the files of the dermatology and pathology clinics of the University Hospi...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Poderoso WL,Santana WB,Costa EF,Cipolotti R,Fakhouri R

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Evidence suggests that giardiasis is a zoonotic disease. The present work aimed to evaluate the genetic identity of Giardia duodenalis isolated from human and dog fecal samples from Belo Horizonte. METHODS:Human and dog fecal samples were cultured for isolation of G. duodenalis. To determine the genotype ...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Gomes KB,Fernandes AP,Menezes A,Amorim Júnior R,Silva EF,Rocha MO

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Leptospirosis is an endemic disease in Brazil that can become an epidemic during the rainy season resulting from floods in areas susceptible to natural disasters. These areas are widespread in Santa Catarina, particularly in the coastal region. Therefore, the objective of this study was to identify environ...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Silva AEP,Conceição GMS,Chiaravalloti Neto F

更新日期：2020-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:With the aim of evaluating the cardiac autonomic function in elderly chagasic patients living in an endemic area, we evaluated, by using computadorized heart rate variability, 28 elderly chagasic with the indeterminate form, 28 elderly non chagasic and 28 young healthy control. In all patients we performed conventiona...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： de Resende LA,Carneiro AC,Ferreira BD,da Silva RA,da Silva VJ,Prata A,Correia D

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in Argentina has being increasing its relative importance with control of vectorial and transfusional transmission growth. It is for this reason that vertical transmission is seen, in the future, as a continuous source of infected newborns, even with vectorial and...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Sosa-Estani S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was effected aiming the verification of the seasonal, spatial and hourly of the phlebotominic species found in the county of Itupeva. Captures were performed fortnightly and 864 sand flies were collected between april/94 and march/95. 81.3% of the captured specimens belonged to 4 species: L. migonei ...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Mayo RC,Casanova C,Mascarini LM,Pignatti MG,Rangel O,Galati EA,Wanderley DM,Corrêa FM

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Cryptococcosis is the second most frequent cause of opportunistic infections in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patients in Colombia. We aimed to determine the prevalence of cryptococcosis in the Colombian department of Atlántico. METHODS:An active search for cryptococcosis cases was conducted between ...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Noguera MC,Escandón P,Arévalo M,García Y,Suárez LE,Castañeda E

更新日期：2019-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In a randomised double-blind study 122 volunteers living in an endemic malarious area in Amazonian Rondônia state were divided into 4 groups to study malaria suppression. . The first group received 500 mg of mefloquine every month, group II 250 mg every two weeks, group III a tablet of Fansidar (500 mg sulphadoxine + ...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Santos JB,Prata A,Wanssa E

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:with the objective of evaluating shortened therapeutic outlines effective in vivax malaria treatment, we accomplished an open, prospective study allocating 234 patients with vivax malaria distributed at random into eight therapeutic groups. Six groups used oral arthemisin as blood esquizonticide at different doses for...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： da Silva Rdo S,Pinto AY,Calvosa VS,de Souza JM

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis produced by Naegleria fowleri was diagnosed in the Independencia county of Anzoategui State, Venezuela. This case motivated the realization of the present epidemiological study with the aim of identifying free-living amoebae in this area. Representative water samples were ...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Cermeño JR,Hernández I,El Yasin H,Tinedo R,Sánchez R,Pérez G,Gravano R,Ruiz A

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This aim of this study was to evaluate the antibacterial activity of fractions and isolates of Maytenus guianensis, a plant species used in Amazonian folk medicine. METHODS:A disk diffusion technique was used to investigate the antibacterial potential. RESULTS:The hexanic fractions and tingenone B isolat...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Silva TMD,Carvalho CM,Lima RA,Facundo VA,Cunha RMD,Meneguetti DUO

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the reliability of the thick smear in a Plasmodium infection area, 322 thick smears were examined by a trained microscopist in field conditions. Later, the same smears were examined by an experience microscopist in ideal laboratory conditions. Reliability was measured by the Kappa index. In symptoma...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Suárez-Mutis MC,Coura JR

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a case of a 12-year-old child with a complaint of pain and deformity in the lower thoracic region that had lasted for two years. Clinical, epidemiological and laboratory characteristics associated with images of apparent damage in the T9-T10 and T11-T12 vertebrae taken by radiography of the thoracic...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Santos FC,Nascimento AL,Lira LA,Lima JF,Montenegro Rde A,Montenegro LM,Schindler HC

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo antimalarial drug efficacy studies of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria at an isolated site in the Amazon basin of Peru bordering Brazil and Colombia showed >50% RII/RIII resistance to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine but no evidence of resistance to mefloquine. ...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Magill AJ,Zegarra J,Garcia C,Marquiño W,Ruebush TK 2nd

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review has three objectives: a) To stimulate further research of this prevalent human infection b) to examine the progress of current diagnostic techniques and c) to emphasise the significance of the flagellate parasite Trypanosoma (Herpetosoma) rangeli in Chagas' Disease endemic areas of South and Central Americ...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Cuba Cuba A

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Considering that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been detected in feces, this study aimed to verify a possible relationship between basic sanitation indices and coronavirus disease (COVID-19) numbers/rates. METHODS:Data of COVID-19 cases registered in Brazil until May 28, ...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Silva RRD,Santos MBD,Santos ADD,Tavares DDS,Santos PLD

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the State of Amazonas, accidents with snakes are a public health problem. For this reasons, the objective of this work was to carry out a descriptive study of the snake accidents attended in the health units of 34 municipalities, one district and two border platoons in the State of Amazonas. The characteristics mos...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Campos Borges C,Sadahiro M,dos Santos MC

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During previous research on phlebotomine fauna in a settlement of the Brazilian National Agrarian Reform Institute (INCRA) on the Bodoquena Range, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil, dogs were observed with clinical aspects suggestive of visceral leishmaniasis. A serological survey to leishmaniasis in 97 dogs, by indire...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Nunes VL,Galati EA,Nunes DB,Zinezzi RO,Savani ES,Ishikawa E,Camargo MC,D'Auria SR,Cristaldo G,Rocha HC

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) remains a major public health issue in Brazil. This ecological study aimed to evaluate the spatiotemporal distribution of notified new AIDS cases in Brazil between 2012 and 2016. METHODS:A Bayesian spatiotemporal model based on the Poisson distribution was used to...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Martinez EZ,Zucoloto ML,Galdino G,Nunes AA,Lizzi EADS

更新日期：2019-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The recent emergence and rapid spread of Zika and Chikungunya fevers in Brazil, occurring simultaneously to a Dengue fever epidemic, together represent major challenges to public health authorities. This study aimed to identify and compare the 2015-2016 spatial diffusion pattern of Zika, Chikungunya, and D...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Santana LS,Braga JU

更新日期：2020-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In the endemic regions of Bolivia the infection of the feminine population in fertile age by T. cruzi is frequent (20 to 50 % of the women in fertile age) and the rate of fetal maternal transmission is of approximately 5%. A great percentage of infected women do not transmit the infection to the fetus. The intention o...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Torrico F,Castro M,Solano M,Rodriguez P,Torrico MC,Truyens C,Carlier Y

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have become common in hospitals and the community environment, and this wide resistance has limited patient treatment. Clindamycin (CL) represents an important alternative therapy for infections caused by S. aureus. Antimicrobial susce...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Bottega A,Rodrigues Mde A,Carvalho FA,Wagner TF,Leal IA,Santos SO,Rampelotto RF,Hörner R

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The aim of this study was to evaluate some virulence factors in Candida albicans isolates from patients with onychomycosis and determine the correlation between these factors and the antifungal resistance profile. METHODS:Seventy species of C. albicans were confirmed using polymerase chain reaction amplif...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Mohammadi F,Ghasemi Z,Familsatarian B,Salehi E,Sharifynia S,Barikani A,Mirzadeh M,Hosseini MA

更新日期：2020-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Four specimens of Triatoma vitticeps and one of Panstrongylus geniculatus were caught inside a home in the municipality of São Fidélis, Rio de Janeiro. One of the specimens of Triatoma vitticeps proved positive for infection with Trypanosoma cruzi. Two people living in that home (one adult and one adolescent) presente...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Lorosa ES,Santos CM,Jurberg J

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma is a lymphoproliferative disorder of mature T lymphocytes associated with infection with human T-cell lymphotrophic virus type I (HTLV-I). Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma is characterized by clinical and laboratory polymorphism that allows it to be classified into four distinct subgroups:...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Olivo RA,Martins FF,Soares S,Moraes-Souza H

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The use of entomopathogenic fungi to control disease vectors has become relevant because traditional chemical control methods have caused damage to the environment and led to the development of resistance among vectors. Thus, this study assessed the pathogenicity of entomopathogenic fungi in Triatoma dimid...

journal_title：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

authors： Vázquez-Martínez MG,Cirerol-Cruz BE,Torres-Estrada JL,López MH

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00