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Contact dermatitis associated with Astronium urundeuva (allemão) Engl., a tradi...
Vilar, Maria do Livramento L.; Diógenes, Maria José Nogueira; Vilar, Janaina L.; Bezerra Filho, José G.; Dantas, Joana D’arc PereiraAstronium urundeuva (allemão) Engl. (Anacardiaceae) is used in northeastern Brazilian folk medicine largely for the treatment of gynaecological and dermatological problems (1). Previous studies of this plant have shown antiulcerogenic (2), analgesic and anti-inflammatory (3, 4) effects. In clinical practice, there is anecdotal evidence that the use of A. urundeuva in topical preparations may cause, maintain or ...
Epidemiologia e ecologia das dermatofitoses na cidade de Fortaleza : o Trichoph...
Brilhante, Raimunda Sâmia Nogueira; Paixão, Germana Costa; Salvino, Liliam Kécia; Diógenes, Maria José Nogueira; Santos, João Bosco Feitosa dosDermatophytosis is the most common skin infectious disturbance in the world. In this research 2.297 patients were evaluated with suspected clinical lesions of dermatophytosis. It was observed that, 534 (23.2%) patients tested positive for dermatophytes. T. rubrum was the most prevalent specie (49.6%; p ≤ 0.05), followed by T. tonsurans (34.4%), M. canis (7%) and T. mentagrophytes (6.2%). When the species isolat...