A principal fonte de infecção por parasitos intestinais pode ser a água e/ou alimentos contaminados ingeridos. O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a ocorrência de parasitos em frutas comercializadas nas ruas de Aparecida de Goiânia, Goiás, Brasil. Foram avaliadas frutas no primeiro semestre de 2017, coletadas nas ruas. A análise parasitológica foi realizada com as técnicas de Willis, Faust, Hoffman, Sheather,...
This project received partial federal support from the Evandro Chagas Institute/Brazilian Ministry of Health. This research was also partially financed by FAPESP (S?o Paulo Research Foundation) through Grant 02/9546-1 and CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) through Grant 302353/2003-8; Universidade Federal de Goi?s. Instituto de Patologia Tropical e Sa?de P?blica. Goi?nia, GO, B...
We report an Acanthamoeba keratitis case associated with the use of contact lens in a 28-year-old female from Brasília, Brazil. Samples from corneal scraping and contact lens case were used for culture establishment, PCR amplification, and partial sequencing (fragments of ~400kb) of small subunit rDNA; both culture and PCR were positive. The sequence analyses of the cornea and of isolates from the contact lens ...
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Toxoplasmosis is caused by Toxoplasma gondii and the probability of this infection occurring in the first months of life is usually low because its transmission is related to eating habits. A 6-month-old nursing infant was diagnosed with acute toxoplasmosis, which was identified through anti- T. gondii IgA, IgM and low-avidity IgG serologic assays, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and mouse bioassay test althoug...