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Serological proteomic screening and evaluation of a recombinant egg antigen for...
Moraes, Vanessa Silva; Shollenberger, Lisa Marie; Borges, William de Castro; Rabello, Ana Lúcia Teles; Harn, Donald A.Background: Despite decades of use of control programs, schistosomiasis remains a global public health problem. To further reduce prevalence and intensity of infection, or to achieve the goal of elimination in low-endemic areas, there needs to be better diagnostic tools to detect low-intensity infections in low-endemic areas in Brazil. The rationale for development of new diagnostic tools is that the current st...
FATAL OUTCOME OF INFECTION BY DENGUE 4 IN A PATIENT WITH THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPU...
Amâncio, Frederico Figueiredo; Pereira, Maira Alves; Iani, Felipe Campos de Melo; D'anunciação, Lorena; Almeida, Jorge Luís Carvalho deDengue é atualmente um importante problema de saúde pública. O vírus da dengue (DENV) é classificado em quatro sorotipos distintos, DENV 1-4. Após 28 anos de ausência, o DENV-4 foi detectado novamente no Brasil em 2010 no Estado de Roraima, e um ano depois, o vírus foi identificado em outros estados do norte do país, Amazonas e Pará, seguido pelos estados do Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo. Em Minas Gerais, o primei...
Comparison between clinical and ultrasonographic findings in cases of periporta...
Prata, Aluízio; Ruiz Guevara, Raiza; Antunes, Carlos Mauricio de Figueiredo; Marinho, Carolina Coimbra; Queiroz, Leonardo Campos de; Voieta, IzabelaIntrodução: Neste estudo, se comparou os achados da palpação abdominal e do ultrassom em pacientes de área endêmica de esquistossomose que foram acompanhados por 27 anos no Brasil. Métodos: Em 2004, 411 pacientes de Brejo do Espírito Santo, no estado da Bahia, após consentimento informado e por escrito foram selecionados para o presente estudo. Baseando-se no exame clínico eles foram divididos em 3 grupos: 41 (...
Role of immune complexes from pacients with different clinical forms of Schisto...
Rezende, Simone Aparecida; Lambertucci, José Roberto; Goes, Alfredo Miranda deSchistosomiasis is a disease whose pathology is strongly related to the granulomatous reaction formed around parasite eggs trapped in host tissues. Studies have shown that the chronic intestinal form (INT) of this infection is associated with a variety of immunoregulatory mechanisms which lead to a diminished granulomatous reaction. Using an in vitro model of granuloma reaction, we show that immune complexes (I...
Serum hyaluronan and collagen IV as non-invasive markers of liver fibrosis in p...
Marinho, Carolina Coimbra; Bretas, Thales; Voieta, Izabela; Queiroz, Leonardo Campos de; Ruiz Guevara, Raiza; Teixeira, Antônio LúcioNon-invasive markers of fibrosis have been used to diagnose liver fibrosis in a variety of diseases. Hyaluronic acid (HA) and collagen IV (C-IV) levels were measured in the sera of patients from an endemic area for schistoso¬miasis in Brazil to diagnose and to rank the intensity of liver fibrosis. Seventy-nine adult patients with schistoso¬miasis, in the age range of 21-82 years (49 ± 13.4) were submitted to cl...
Opportunistic infections in patients with aids admitted to an university hospit...
Nobre, Vandack; Braga, Emanuella; Rayes, Abdunnabi; Serufo, José Carlos; Godoy, Pérsio; Nunes, Nívea; Antunes, Carlos MaurícioOpportunistic diseases in HIV-infected patients have changed since the introduction of highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART). This study aims at evaluating the frequency of associated diseases in patients with AIDS admitted to an university hospital of Brazil, before and after HAART. The medical records of 342 HIV-infected patients were reviewed and divided into two groups: group 1 comprised 247 patient...
Alterações pulmonares da fase inicial da esquistossomose mansoni
Rocha, Manoel Otávio C.; Rocha, Regina Lunardi; Pedroso, Ênio Roberto P.; Greco, Dirceu B.; Ferreira, Cid Sérgio; Lambertucci, José RobertoThe clinical and radiological pulmonary manifestations in the initial phase of schistosomiasis mansoni were studied in thirty previously healthy individuals who were simultaneously infected. The findings were compared with those concerning a control group and related to possible pathogenetic factors. The respiratory manifestations were of light or of moderate intensity, the dry cough being the most common sympt...
Caracterização da forma inaparente da fase inicial da esquistossomose mansoni
Rocha, Manoel Otávio da Costa; Pedroso, Enio Roberto Pietra; Neves, Jayme; Rocha, Roberto Sena; Greco, Dirceu Bartolomeu; Lambertucci, José RobertoIn this paper the history of 115 recruits that had bathed simultaneously in streams contaminated with Schistosoma mansoni, during military maneuvers, is reported. Thirty four of the infected patients presented the initial phase of the infection diagnosed through epidemiologic, clinical and laboratorial parameters. Three out of the 34 patients did not reveal the clinical picture of the infection, thus being cons...
Stool examination and rectal biopsy in the diagnosis and evaluation of therapy ...
Rabello, Ana Lúcia Teles; Rocha, Roberto Sena; Oliveira, João Paulo Mendes de; Katz, Naftale; Lambertucci, José RobertoFrom each of a group of 217 adult males selected through enzyme-immunoassay or skin-test (Group A), six stool samples were examined by both the Lutz/Hoffman, Pons & Janer (Lutz/HPJ) and Kato/Katz methods. In addition, one oogram of the rectal mucosa was performed. By these methods, schistosomiasis was detected in 44.7%, 47.5% and 40.1% of the individuals respectively. To evaluate the methods in the assessment o...
Therapeutic efficacy of oral oxamniquine in the treatment of prolonged septicem...
Lambertucci, José Roberto; Marinho, Roberto Pedercini; Ferreira, Maria das Dores; Neves, Jayme; Pedroso, Ênio Roberto PietraThirty-five patients with Prolonged Septicemic Salmonellosis were selected for this trial. Twenty patients (Group 1) were treated with a single oral dose of oxamniquine (15-20mg/kg body weight) and 15 (Group 2) were treated with cloramphenicol (50mg/kg body weight, for 15-20 days). Clinical, laboratory and radiological examinations were performed before and after treatment. Eight Group 1 patients (40%) presente...