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Non-viral microbial keratitis in adults: clinical and laboratory aspects
Cury,Eunice Stella Jardim; Chang,Marilene Rodrigues; Pontes,Elenir Rose Jardim CuryAbstract This study compares patients with and without non-viral microbial keratitis in relation to sociodemographic variables, clinical aspects, and involved causative agent. Clinical aspects, etiology and therapeutic procedures were assessed in patients with and without keratitis that were diagnosed in an Eye Care Center in Campo Grande, MS, Brazil. Patients were divided into two groups: (a) cases: 64 patient...
Disseminated cutaneous atypical mycobacteriosis by M. chelonae after sclerother...
Murback,Nathalia Dias Negrão; Higa Júnior,Minoru German; Pompílio,Maurício Antônio; Cury,Eunice Stella Jardim; Hans Filho,Gunter; Takita,Luiz CarlosAbstract Atypical mycobacteria are saprophytic organisms not transmitted from person to person, which affect mainly immunosuppressed but also immunocompetent individuals. We present a case of atypical mycobacteriosis after a vascular procedure, with widespread cutaneous lesions associated with polyarthralgia. Mycobacterium chelonae was identified by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method. The patient showed...