Introduction:Type 1 diabetes mellitus is a prevalent disease with high orbidity, and mortality where their care and treatment usually comes with high demand for patients, family, careers, social network, and health care system. Few tudies accessing social network and quality of life in patients with diabetes were previously conducted. However those studies were mainly in type 2 diabetic patients, and those eval...
Introduction:Type 1 diabetes mellitus is a prevalent disease with high orbidity, and mortality where their care and treatment usually comes with high demand for patients, family, careers, social network, and health care system. Few tudies accessing social network and quality of life in patients with diabetes were previously conducted. However those studies were mainly in type 2 diabetic patients, and those eval...
SUMMARY Background. Disseminated histoplasmosis is common in AIDS patients with advanced immunosuppression in Ceará, Northeastern Brazil. The goal of this study was to determine the prevalence of Histoplasma infection in patients with HIV/AIDS living in Fortaleza, the capital of Ceará. Methods. Intradermal tests with histoplasmin (mycelial phase) were performed in 161 HIV patients with CD4 ≥ 350 cells/mm 3 . Ev...
Histoplasmosis is an infection disease caused by the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum var. capsulatum that can affect humans and several other animal. This fungus can be found in nature, mainly in places rich in bat and bird droppings: dirty and abandoned chicken coops, cave environments, old constructions, building domes and hollow trees. The infection in humans occurs through the upper airways. Since the HIV out...