Chagas'disease: IgA, IgM and IgG antibodies to T. cruzi amastigote, trypomastigote and epimastigote antigens in acute and in different chronic forms of the disease.

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journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

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更新日期：2019-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A 37-year-old male patient, Fitzpatrick skin phototype IV, a student living in Belem, Amazon region, in 2015 had a confirmed diagnosis of acquired immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, but did not initiate antiretroviral treatment at his own option. Three years after the diagnosis, erythematous maculae appeared on t...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Pires CAA,Monteiro JCMS,Rego RM,Lodi VJC

更新日期：2020-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the findings of a survey for intestinal parasites among the Xavánte Indians from Central Brazil. A. lumbricoides (25.0%) and hookworms (33.6%) were the two most common helminths; E. histolytica complex (7.8%) and G. lamblia (8.6%) the most common protozoans. The majority (58.5%) of positive individu...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Santos RV,Coimbra Júnior CE,Flowers NM,Silva JP

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

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：:Fasciolosis is a widespread parasitosis of farm live-stock in many developing countries. For this reason, it is necessary to search for new substances against parasitic diseases caused by flukes. Indeed, a wide variety of terrestrial plants have been subjected to chemical and pharmacological screening in order to disc...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Hamed N,Njeh F,Damak M,Ayadi A,Mezghani-Jarraya R,Hammami H

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:The authors reported one case of eumycotic mycetoma due to Madurella grisea (black grains) occurred on the right foot of the patient studied. The structure, microscopic morphology and therapeutic evolution are also studied and reported. ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Belda Júnior W,Cucé LC,Dias MC,Lacaz Cda S

更新日期：1989-05-01 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：:Although Candida albicans is the main cause of fungal esophagitis, other species such as C. tropicalis, C. krusei and C. stellatoidea have also been implicated. Several studies have identified risk factors for C. albicans esophagitis. However, data for non-C. albicans species is still sparse. The aim of this study was...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Kliemann DA,Pasqualotto AC,Falavigna M,Giaretta T,Severo LC

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant number of Brazilian gestational-age women are still not tested for HIV, representing a high risk of transmission to their newborns. The current study sought to identify the number of pregnant women with no previous testing or undocumented for HIV referred to the Gynecology and Obstetrics Department of a ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Prestes-Carneiro LE,Miguel NA,Ascêncio EL,Amâncio M,Alcântara VL,Portelinha-Filho JA

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:Therapy of coccidioidomycosis continues to evolve. For primary pulmonary disease, antifungal therapy is frequently not required while prolonged courses of antifungals are generally needed for those in whom extrathoracic disseminated has occurred. Intravenous amphotericin B should be reserved for those with severe dise...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Ampel NM

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:In human toxocariasis, there are few approaches using immunological markers for diagnosis and therapeutic assessment. An immunoblot (IB) assay using excretory-secretory Toxocara canis antigen was standardized for monitoring IgG, IgE and IgA antibodies in 27 children with toxocariasis (23 visceral, three mixed visceral...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Rubinsky-Elefant G,Hoshino-Shimizu S,Jacob CM,Sanchez MC,Ferreira AW

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work aimed to assess pathogenic potential and clonal relatedness of Aeromonas sp. and Vibrio cholerae isolates recovered during a diarrhea outbreak in Brazil. Clinical and environmental isolates were investigated for the presence of known pathogenic genes and clonal relatedness was assessed by intergenic spacer r...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Mendes-Marques CL,Nascimento LM,Theophilo GN,Hofer E,Melo Neto OP,Leal NC

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the whole blood immunochromatographic card test (ICT card test) in a survey performed in Northeastern Brazil. 625 people were examined by the thick blood film (TBF) and ICT card test. Residents of a non-endemic area were also tested by the whole blood card test and Og4C3. The sensitivity of the IC...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Braga C,Dourado MI,Ximenes RA,Alves L,Brayner F,Rocha A,Alexander N

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an important factor contributing to morbidity and mortality in patients co-infected with HIV and HCV. In addition, liver biopsy is an important tool in the clinical management of these patients. Although liver biopsy is controversial, it is recommended for all patients. Data regard...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Mendes-Correa MC,Widman A,Brussi ML,Guastini CF,Cavalheiro Nde P,Melo CE,Barone AA,Gianini RJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 4-year study (1987-1990) covered the major clinical-epidemiological characteristics of pneumonia in children as diagnosed at the emergency service of the Children's Hospital, as well as etiologies, and factors involved in the most severe cases. Etiology was determined in 47.7% of the 541 pneumonia cases, involving...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Hortal M,Suarez A,Deleon C,Estevan M,Mogdasy MC,Russi JC,Contera M,Meny M

更新日期：1994-05-01 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：:Forty children with a diagnosis of Visceral Toxocariasis were evaluated prospectively from February 1982 to June 1989. Diagnosis was established by clinical, laboratory and serological (ELISA - ES Toxocara canis antigen) evaluations. A great clinical polymorphism was found in our patients, ranging from unspecific or a...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Jacob CM,Pastorino AC,Peres BA,Mello EO,Okay Y,Oselka GW

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:The aim of this review is to show the significant role of HIF-1alpha in inflammatory and infectious diseases. Hypoxia is a physiological characteristic of a wide range of diseases from cancer to infection. Cellular hypoxia is sensed by oxygen-sensitive hydrolase enzymes, which control the protein stability of hypoxia-...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Santos SAD,Andrade DR Júnior

更新日期：2017-12-21 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：:The dissemination of the giant African snail Achatina fulica in several countries has triggered a great number of studies on the mollusk, including those on zoonoses related to health in humans. The current research is a scientific survey on articles published in four databases, namely, PubMed, Bireme, Scielo and Lila...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Pavanelli GC,Yamaguchi MU,Calaça EA,Oda FH

更新日期：2017-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:It is essential that healthcare providers are familiar with the full spectrum of clinical presentations of syphilis. A rare manifestation of secondary syphilis is the corymbiform (or corymbose) arrangement, in which a central greater papule is surrounded by smaller satellite lesions. Very few reports of corymbiform sy...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Eyer-Silva WA,Souza VPB,Silva GARD,Brasil FV,Portela ADS,Carvalho RS,Neves-Motta R,Martins CJ

更新日期：2018-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In late 2019, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged as the cause of a cluster of pneumonia cases in China, and the corresponding disease was designated as Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), spreading quickly around the world resulting in a pandemic. COVID-19 is associated with a se...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Vechi HT,Maia LR,Alves MDM

更新日期：2020-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Between April and October 2002, thirty fortnightly collections of oysters (Crassostrea rhizophorea) from a natural oyster bed at the Cocó River estuary in the Sabiaguaba region (Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil) were carried out, aiming to isolate Aeromonas spp. strains. Oyster samples were submitted to the direct plating (DP...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Evangelista-Barreto NS,Vieira RH,Carvalho FC,Torres RC,Sant'Anna ES,Rodrigues DP,Reis CM

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00