Nosocomial infection in long-term care facilities. A survey in a Brazilian psychiatric hospital.

abstract：:In these experiments the ratio of male to female S. mansoni larvae in B. glabrata from Belo Horizonte and Ribeirão das Neves Minas Gerais, Brazil, either reared in laboratory or collected in the field, varied from 1:1 to 1:1.3 or 1.4:1. Cercariae of LE strain of Schistosoma mansoni, shed by 39 snails maintained at 25 ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： de Souza CP,Jannotti-Passos LK,Ferreira SS,Sampaio IB

更新日期：1995-07-01 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：:This study aimed to assess the exposure of free-living jaguars (Panthera onca) to Leptospira spp. and Brucella abortus in two conservation units in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso, Brazil. The presence of antibodies in blood samples of eleven jaguars was investigated using autochthonous antigens isolated in Brazil added t...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Onuma SS,Kantek DL,Crawshaw Júnior PG,Morato RG,May-Júnior JA,Morais ZM,Ferreira Neto JS,Aguiar DM

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the present study was to estimate the prevalence of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV 2) antibodies in child bearing women of 2 Brazilian populations with different socioeconomic status and to determine the risk of neonatal HSV exposure by means of maternal cultures at the onset of labor. The study was...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Weinberg A,Canto CL,Pannuti CS,Kwang WN,Garcia SA,Zugaib M

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to assess the presence of schistosomiasis mansoni in the "Noroeste de Minas" mesoregion, an area considered non-endemic. A malacologic survey and parasitologic stool examinations were undertaken in 13 municipalities of the mesoregion. A sample of 3,283 primary school students was submitted to ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Carvalho OS,Massara CL,Guerra HL,Campos YR,Caldeira RL,Chaves A,Katz N

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last years, new techniques of neuroimages and histopathological methods have been added to the management of cerebral mass lesions in patients with AIDS. Stereotactic biopsy is necessary when after 14 days of empirical treatment for Toxoplasma gondii encephalitis there is no clinical or neuroradiologic improvem...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Corti ME,Yampolsky C,Metta H,Valerga M,Sevlever G,Capizzano A

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant yeast-derived hepatitis B vaccine manufactured by Instituto Butantan was administered in two groups of adult volunteers (I, II) following two different schedules of immunization. In the first trial (10 &mgr;g doses and 0, 1, 3 months vaccination schedule) 106 individuals completed the full immunization pro...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Ioshimoto LM,Rissato ML,Bonilha VS,Miyaki C,Raw I I,Granovski N

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophils, eosinophils and macrophages are cells that interact with invading parasites and naive hosts have been shown to have anti-parasitic activity. The initial reaction of these leukocytes is the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) to play in parasite expulsion. The present work was carried out to study ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Pugine SM,Faria MF,Maia AA,Valle CR,Boschini C,Poleti MD,Silva MR,De Melo MP

更新日期：2005-03-01 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：: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：:Neurocysticercosis (NC), the presence of Taenia solium metacestodes in tissues, is the most frequent and severe parasitic infection of the central nervous system. We investigated the presence of total IgE by an automated chemiluminescence assay in 53 paired cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and serum samples from patients wit...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Bueno EC,Vaz AJ,Machado Ld,Livramento JA

更新日期：2000-03-01 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

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：UNLABELLED:Coccidioidomycosis is an endemic infection with a relatively limited geographic distribution: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and the southwest of the United States. In these countries, the endemic area is restricted to the semiarid desert like regions which are...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Martins Mdos A,de Araújo Eda M,Kuwakino MH,Heins-Vaccari EM,Del Negro GM,Vozza Júnior JA,Lacaz Cda S

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral phaeohyphomycosis ("chromoblastomycosis") is a rare intracranial lesion. We report the first human culture-proven case of brain abscesses due to Fonsecaea pedrosoi in Brazil. The patient, a 28 year-old immunocompetent white male, had ocular manifestations and a hypertensive intracranial syndrome. Magnetic res...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Nóbrega JP,Rosemberg S,Adami AM,Heins-Vaccari EM,Lacaz Cda S,de Brito T

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasmosis is frequently acquired through the oral route by the ingestion of cysts or oocysts of Toxoplasma gondii. Once ingested, the parasites penetrate the intestinal epithelial cells and rapidly disseminate to all organs in the host. During T. gondii infection, the intestinal microbiota plays an important role ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Ribeiro Cde M,Zorgi NE,Meireles LR,Garcia JL,Andrade Junior HF

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surfacen® is an exogenous natural lung surfactant, composed by phospholipids and hydrophobic proteins, which is applied successfully in Newborn Respiratory Distress Syndrome. In this paper, in vitro activity of Surfacen® against Leishmania amazonensis is described. The product showed activity against the amastigote fo...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Blanco O,Lugones Y,Díaz E,Monzote L

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the study of conjunctivitis outbreaks occurring from September 1994 to September 1996 in the region of Ribeirão Preto, conjunctival exudates of 92 patients were cultivated in Instituto Adolfo Lutz Laboratory I, Ribeirão Preto. Most cases occurred in the age range 2-7 years. The etiological agents which were most fr...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Medeiros MI,Neme SN,da Silva P,Silva JO,Carneiro AM,Carloni MC,Brandileone MC

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying the true prevalence of human T-cell lymphotropic virus, mostly type 1 (HTLV-1), and the number of patients with HTLV-1-associated diseases, in addition to introducing HTLV-1/2 serology during the prenatal of pregnant women and in individuals infected with other viruses that share transmission routes with H...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Silva RXD,Campos KR,Caterino-de-Araujo A

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) is an autoimmune disease characterized by blistering of the skin and mucosa, which develops due to the interaction between predisposing genetic and environmental factors. Infections caused by members of the Herpesviridae family have been suggested as a possible triggering factor for P...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Brandão ML,Fernandes NC,Batista DP,Santos N

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous pulmonary schistosome egg granulomas were present in mice submitted to partial portal vein ligation (Warren's model). The granulomas were characterized by cellular aggregations formed within alveolar tissue. Main cellular types were macrophages (epithelioid cells), eosinophils, plasma cells and lymphocytes. T...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Vidal MR,Barbosa Júnior AA,Andrade ZA

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to compare the frequency of headache between Chagasic and Non-chagasic women. The cross-sectional study comprised 647 female > or = 40 years old, Chagasic (n = 362) and Controls (n = 285) at a Brazilian University Hospital. Chagasic were classified as Cardiac (n = 179), Megas (n = 58) or Inde...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： dos Santos VM,da Cunha SF,Teixeira Vde P,Monteiro JP,dos Santos JA,dos Santos TA,dos Santos LA,da Cunha DF

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) often have opportunistic infections, among which strongyloidiasis and coccidiosis are the most common parasitic infections that aggravate their health status. This study examined the prevalence of intestinal parasites, particularly of Strongyloides stercora...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Barcelos NB,Silva LFE,Dias RFG,Menezes Filho HR,Rodrigues RM

更新日期：2018-03-08 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 study was carried out on the occurrence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in 1,100 diarrheal feces, routinely sent to a private clinical laboratory for microbiologic diagnosis, in Recife. V. parahaemolyticus was isolated from 14 (1.3%) fecal samples. However, if we considered only the specimens from adult patients, the iso...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Magalhães V,Lima RA,Tateno S,Magalhães M

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:Infrapopliteal mycotic aneurysm resulting from endocarditis is rare, with only a few reported cases. We describe the case of a 28-year-old male patient who was suffering with pain and edema in the right leg. The ultrasound revealed an aneurysm of the right tibioperoneal trunk and a deep vein thrombosis (DVT). The pati...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Belczak SQ,Sincos IR,Teivelis MP,de Oliveira CA,Fragoso H,Aun R

更新日期：2012-05-01 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