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Chikungunya encephalitis: report of a fatal case in Northeastern Brazil
Lima, Elaine Cristina Bomfim de; Januário, Alexandre Medeiros Sampaio; Fortuna, Eliane Guimarães; Real, Maria Eulália Corte; Lacerda, Heloísa RamosChikungunya, a viral infection that presents with fever, rash and polyarthritis, is usually an acute febrile illness. Uncommon neurological manifestations include meningoencephalitis, encephalitis, myelitis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, myelopathy and neuropathy. During an outbreak of the disease in La Reunion Island, abnormalities were observed in the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of patients with encephalitis ...
Survival analysis in non-congenital neurological disorders related to dengue, c...
Lima, Elaine Cristina Bomfim de; Montarroyos, Ulisses Ramos; Magalhães, Jurandy Júnior Ferraz de; Dimech, George Santiago; Lacerda, Heloísa RamosThe Northeast of Brazil has experienced a triple epidemic, with the simultaneous circulation of dengue virus (DENV), chikungunya virus (CHIKV) and Zika virus (ZIKV), which may have contributed to the observed increase across this region of atypical forms of disease and deaths. In view of this fact, non-congenital neurological disorders related to arboviruses were compared with other etiologies, mortality and su...
Characterization of Leishmania (L.) infantum chagasi in visceral leishmaniasis ...
Lima, Elaine Cristina Bomfim de; Barbosa Júnior, Walter Lins; Brito, Maria Edileuza Felinto de; Melo, Fábio Lopes de; Brandão Filho, Sinval PintoVisceral leishmaniasis, associated with HIV/AIDS coinfection, is becoming a more aggressive disease, complicating an accurate prognosis. A 21-year-old HIV-positive female presenting with clinical features of visceral leishmaniasis was enrolled in this study. Bone marrow cytology, Novy-MacNeal-Nicolle culture and kDNA PCR of peripheral blood were all positive. Typing methods, multilocus enzyme electrophoresis an...