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Waterborne toxoplasmosis, Brazil, from field to gene
Moura, Lenildo de; Oliveira, Lilian Maria Garcia Bahia; Wada, Marcelo Yoshito; Jones, Jeffrey L.; Tuboi, Suely Hiromi; Carmo, Eduardo HageWater has been considered an important vehicle for disseminating human toxoplasmosis in outbreaks(1,2) and in endemic settings in Brazil (3). We investigated a large toxoplasmosis outbreak in which the exposure to known sources of Toxoplasma gondii infection was assessed. We found that unfiltered, municipally treated water was the epidemiologically implicated source of infection for this outbreak. Isolation, po...
Prevalência de microsporidiose intestinal em pacientes infectados pelo HIV com ...
Dworkin, Mark S.; Buskin, Susan E.; Davidson, Arthur J.; Cohn, David L.; Morse, Anne; Inungu, Jeffrey; Adams, Michael R.; McCombs, Scott B.To determine the prevalence of intestinal microsporidiosis in HIV-infected patients, we performed a prospective study of HIV-infected patients with diarrheal illnesses in three US hospitals and examined an observational database of HIV-infected patients in 10 US cities. Among 737 specimens from the three hospitals, results were positive for 11 (prevalence 1.5%); seven (64%) acquired HIV through male-to-male sex...