Production of monoclonal antibodies anti-Taenia crassiceps cysticerci with cross-reactivity with Taenia solium antigens.

abstract：:This case report describes the findings of a 18 year-old black male from Bahia, a Northeastern state in Brazil, with the sickle cell trait, who developed bilateral hyphema and vitreous hemorrhage with blindness in the course of leptospirosis. The patient started to complain of blurred vision four days after the start ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Costa E,Lopes AA,Sacramento E,Santos PA

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cranial CT scans of eleven immunocompetent children with central nervous system (CNS) infection due to Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii were retrospectively reviewed. These children had an average age of 8.8 years and positive culture for C. n. var. gattii in cerebrospinal fluid. The most common signs and symptoms ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Correa Mdo P,Severo LC,Oliveira Fde M,Irion K,Londero AT

更新日期：2002-09-01 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：:The pathogenesis of chronic chagasic myocarditis remains incompletely understood. Several hypotheses have been proposed: (1) direct tissue destruction by Trypanosoma cruzi; (2) neurogenic theory; (3) anti-heart immune reactions; and (4) microvascular disease. We present herein a dynamic alternative hypothesis. We beli...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Rossi MA,Mengel JO

更新日期：1992-11-01 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：: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：: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：:Chromoblastomycosis (CR) is a subcutaneous chronic mycosis characterized by a granulomatous inflammatory response. However, little is known regarding the pattern of leukocyte subsets in CR and the pathways involved in their recruitment. The objective of this study was to assess the cellular subsets, chemokine, chemoki...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Sá VC,Silva TA,Reis CM,Cunha FQ,Figueiredo F,Bocca AL

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Supernatant of boiled spleen saline-suspensions of Yersinia pestis experimentally infected animals were used as template for PCR amplification without DNA extraction. PCR sensitivity was enhanced by a second round of amplification (Nested). No amplification was observed from non-infected animals. ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Leal NC,Abath FG,Alves LC,de Almeida AM

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article doi: 10.1590/S1678-9946201860051]. ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

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更新日期：2018-10-11 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：: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：: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：INTRODUCTION:The majority of nosocomial fungal infections are caused by Candida spp. where C. albicans is the species most commonly identified. Molecular methods are important tools for assessing the origin of the yeasts isolated in hospitals. METHODS:This is a study on the genetic profiles of 39 nosocomial clinical i...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Bonfim-Mendonça Pde S,Fiorini A,Shinobu-Mesquita CS,Baeza LC,Fernandez MA,Svidzinski TI

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the association between oral candidiasis in elderly users and nonusers of prosthesis and its predisposing factors. To this end, we performed a cross-sectional study where saliva samples from 48 patients were collected they used prosthesis and 43 patients (control group) who did not use. Among the 9...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Bianchi CM,Bianchi HA,Tadano T,Paula CR,Hoffmann-Santos HD,Leite DP Jr,Hahn RC

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) infection was detected in cases of exanthem subitum (ES) involving four children, aged 10 to 24 months, between April and August 1994, in Belém, Brazil. By using the indirect immunofluorescence antibody assay (IFA), significant increases (at least eight times) in antibody concentrati...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： de Freitas RB,Linhares AC,Oliveira CS,Gusmão RH,Linhares MI

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The municipality of Cantagalo is an area with sustained transmission of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ACL). Monthly sand fly collections were performed for three years (June 2012 - May 2015) using a CDC light trap. A total of 3,310 specimens belonging to 12 species were trapped: Nyssomyia intermedia, Nyssomyia whi...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Peres-Dias QN,Oliveira CD,Souza MB,Meira Ade M,Villanova CB

更新日期：2016-07-11 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：: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：: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：:The currently known distribution range of Achatina fulica Bowdich, 1822, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, is presented. The record of A. fulica naturally infested with Aelurostrongylus abstrusus larvae (Railliet, 1898) (Nematoda: Metastrongylidae) can be found in the city of Guaratinguetá. It was found A. fulica wit...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Ohlweiler FP,Guimarães MC,Takahashi FY,Eduardo JM

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：: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：:Escherichia coli causes various ailments such as septicemia, enteritis, foodborne illnesses, and urinary tract infections which are of concern in the public health field due to antibiotic resistance. Silver nanoparticles (AgNP) are known for their biocompatibility and antibacterial activity, and may prove to be an alt...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Ashmore D,Chaudhari A,Barlow B,Barlow B,Harper T,Vig K,Miller M,Singh S,Nelson E,Pillai S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of iron regulated proteins (IRPs) in vitro has been obtained in the past by adding iron chelators to the culture after bacterial growth, in the presence of an organic iron source. We have investigated aspects concerning full expression of the meningococcal IRPs during normal growth, in defined condition...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Brandileone MC,Zanella RC,Vieira VS,Sacchi CT,Milagres LG,Frasch CE

更新日期：1994-07-01 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：:Extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBL) in enterobacteria are recognized worldwide as a great hospital problem. In this study, 127 ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae isolated in one year from inpatients and outpatients at a public teaching hospital at São Paulo, Brazil, were submitted to analysis by PCR with specific ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Dropa M,Balsalobre LC,Lincopan N,Mamizuka EM,Murakami T,Cassettari VC,Franco F,Guida SM,Balabakis AJ,Passadore LF,Santos SR,Matté GR,Matté MH

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study the chemoresistance of Plasmodium falciparum to commonly used antimalarial drugs in Brazil the authors have studied ten patients with falciparum malaria, acquired in the Brazilian Amazon region. Patients were submitted to in vivo study of drug sensitivity, after chemotherapy with either 4-aminoquinol...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Segurado AA,di Santi SM,Shiroma M

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report two cases of adrenal insufficiency secondary to infiltration of the adrenal glands by Paracoccidioides brasiliensis. The first patient had been treated for a chronic multifocal form of paracoccidiodomycosis 11 years ago. The diagnosis of the mycosis was done simultaneous with that of the adrenal ins...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Agudelo CA,Muñoz C,Ramírez A,Gutierrez J,Velez S,Perez JC,Velez A,Tobon AM,Restrepo A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two xenic isolates and cloned cultures of Entamoeba dispar were submitted to monoxenization using Crithidia fasciculata as the associated organism. Growth in monoxenic cultivation and ability of xenic and monoxenic trophozoites to destroy VERO cells and produce lesions in hamster livers were compared to those of a vir...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Costa AO,Gomes MA,Rocha OA,Silva EF

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00