Field evaluation of the whole blood immunochromatographic test for rapid bancroftian filariasis diagnosis in the northeast of Brazil.

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：: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：: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：:Public parks are leisure environments widely used by both, adults and children, often accompained by their pets. Soil contamination of these environments by enteric viruses and intestinal parasites occurs through these animals feces. The aim of this work was to detect Carnivore protoparvovirus 1 (CPV-1) and different ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Eisen AKA,Demoliner M,Oliveira KG,Troian EA,Mallmann L,Filippi M,Almeida PR,Spilki FR

更新日期：2019-11-25 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：:The circulation of arboviruses throughout the world and the maintenance of lymphatic filariasis endemicity in tropical countries, combined with the lack of vaccines and specific treatments, highlight the importance of reducing the populations of mosquitoes involved in the transmission of these pathogens, Aedes aegypti...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Xavier MDN,Rodrigues MP,Melo DCTV,Santos EMM,Barbosa RMR,Oliveira CMF

更新日期：2020-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) caused by Listeria monocytogenes in cirrhotic patients are reported. In one of the cases, the microorganism was isolated from pleural effusion and ascites. SBP is a serious and common complication of patients with ascites caused by hepatic cirrhosis and the culture ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Toyoshima MT,Apanavicius A,de Matos Soeiro A,de Almeida GM,Arai MH

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molluscs with shells very similar to Oncomelania nosophora were collected at Pedro Leopoldo and Lagoa Santa counties, MG, Brazil. They were identified, according to shell and soft part morphology, as Idiopyrgus souleyetianus. The others hidrobioids identified in Brazil are also listed. ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Lima LC,de Souza CP

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An epidemiological survey with histoplasmin skin test was performed in 392 poultry farmers and 265 workers considered without occupational risk of exposition to Histoplasma capsulatum, etiologic agent of histoplasmosis. The results were positive in 28.8% and 13.2% in both groups respectively. Statistically, there was ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Suárez Hernández M,Fernández Andreu CM,Estrada Ortiz A,Cisneros Despaigne E

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report clinical features and therapeutic response of 24 outpatients with acute Chagas' disease, and 3 in the initial chronic phase, referred to the Clinic for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases of the FMUSP "Clínicas" Hospital between 1974 and 1987. The following transmission routes were involved: triatomin...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Shikanai-Yasuda MA,Lopes MH,Tolezano JE,Umezawa E,Amato Neto V,Barreto AC,Higaki Y,Moreira AA,Funayama G,Barone AA

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：: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：:The aim of this research was to monitor the presence of females of Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus, 1762) on the Seropédica municipality, Rio de Janeiro State, from 2010 to 2013. For this purpose, the Intelligent Dengue Monitoring (IM-Dengue) and Intelligent Virus Monitoring (IM-Virus) developed by Universidade Federal de Min...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Sanavria A,Silva CBD,Electo ÉH,Nogueira LCR,Thomé SMG,Angelo IDC,Vita GF,Sanavria TEC,Padua ED,Gaiotte DG

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：: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：:The response to interferon treatment in chronic hepatitis NANB/C has usually been classified as complete, partial or absent, according to the behavior of serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT). However, a more detailed observation of the enzymatic activity has shown that the patterns may be more complex. The aim of this...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： da Silva LC,Ono SK,Fonseca LE,Carrilho FJ,Mendes LC,França AV,Madruga CL,Laudanna AA

更新日期：1995-05-01 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：:Sixteen patients with endemic pemphigus foliaceus were submitted to nutritional evaluation. Ten had the localized form of the disease (Group G1) and six the disseminated form (Group G2). The patients were submitted to anthropometric measurements (weight, height, Quetelét index, tricipital skin fold, subscapular skin f...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Barraviera SR,Dillon NL,Curi PR,Pereira PC,de Almeida DB

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After the introduction of the rotavirus vaccine, the number of rotavirus-associated deaths and the predicted annual rotavirus detection rate had slightly declined worldwide. Taking in account that in Colombia, Rotarix vaccine was introduced in 2009, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the presence of rotavirus A...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Martinez-Gutierrez M,Arcila-Quiceno V,Trejos-Suarez J,Ruiz-Saenz J

更新日期：2019-07-01 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：: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：:[This corrects the article doi: 10.1590/S1678-9946201860051]. ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors：

更新日期：2018-10-11 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：:The contaminated soil with mammal feces is an important factor of risk to infection with zoonotic diseases. Amongst these zoonoses are visceral larva migrans and cutaneous larva migrans caused by Toxocara spp. and Ancylostoma spp., respectively. The aim of this study was to assess the environmental contamination by To...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Marques JP,Guimarães Cde R,Boas AV,Carnaúba PU,Moraes Jd

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strongyloides venezuelensis is a parasitic nematode of rodents frequently used to obtain heterologous antigens for the immunological diagnosis of human strongyloidiasis. The aim of this study was to evaluate membrane fractions from S. venezuelensis for human strongyloidiasis immunodiagnosis. Soluble and membrane fract...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Corral MA,Paula FM,Gottardi M,Meisel DM,Chieffi PP,Gryschek RC

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this research was to evaluate the prevalence of Staphylococcus spp. and S. aureus in the odontological clinic environment (air), their production of beta-lactamase and antibacterial susceptibility to the major antibiotics utilized in medical particle. During 12 months of samples collect were isolated 9775 C...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Bernardo WL,Boriollo MF,Gonçalves RB,Höfling JF

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:A 73 year-old white male, living in the interior of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, in central Brazil, after an initial diagnosis of sinusitis was transferred to the neurology service with a 3-day evolution of intracranial hypertension. Exams showed lymphocytic leukemia and a tumor-like lesion, either an expanding in...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Salgado PR,Gorski AG,Aleixo AR,de Barros EO

更新日期：1996-07-01 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：: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