Evasion and quality of teaching learning has been a concern for higher education in Brazil, given the responsibility with the training of professionals, with the resources applied and with the social and individual expectations about the graduates of each course. Graduation courses in Dance in Federal University of Ceará began in 2011 and, since then, the impression was that many students were"disappearing" of ...
This study aimed to describe and analyze educational strategies conducted by a university extension project, comparing the different approaches used in pre-school and school. This qualitative, transversal and documental study was realized based on the analysis of archives of the period from 2011 to 2012. Detailed reading was performed of 22 reports. Posteriorly, the data were organized in categories: themes, as...
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/mm3. Evidence of ...
Introduction: The year 2009 marked the beginning of a pandemic caused by a new variant of influenza A (H1N1). After spreading through North America, the pandemic influenza virus (H1N1) 2009 spread rapidly throughout the world. The aim of this study was to describe the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of cases of pandemic influenza in a tropical/semi-arid region of Brazil. Methods: A retrospective st...
Objective: The identification of behavioral and clinical factors that are associated with pulmonary tuberculosis might improve the detection and treatment of the disease, thereby reducing its duration and transmission. Our objective was to identify sociodemographic, clinical, and behavioral factors that are associated with the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conduc...
Reduced antituberculosis drugs concentrations are associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance, mostly in patients in irregular but also in directly observed treatment. This study aims to evaluate intestinal permeability and bioavailability of rifampin (R), isoniazid (I) and pyrazinamide (P) in patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis. A controlled cross sectional study evaluated intestinal permeabi...