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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...
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...
The value of the Widal test in the diagnosis of Prolonged Septicemic Salmonellosis
Lambertucci, José Roberto; Marinho, Roberto Pedercini; Ferreira, Maria das Dores; Neves, JaymeTwenty patients with prolonged septicemic salmonellosis (Group 1) and 20 with schistosomiasis mansoni (Group 2) were selected for this study. In both groups, the Widal test was done using antigens of the sample Ty 901 (S. typhi). The test was also applied in 6 group 1 patients with antigens prepared from salmonellae isolated from these patients (autoantigens). Titres over 1:200 were considered significant. Ten ...
Viability of eggs of Ascaris lumbricoides after human treatment with specific d...
Souza, Maria Suzana de Lemos; Souza, Dirceu Wagner Carvalho de; Carvalho, Omar dos Santos; Neves, Jayme; Massara, Cristiano LaraCom o objetivo de testar a viabilidade do ciclo biológico, 15 pacientes (masculinos, de quatro a 14 anos) com Ascaris lumbricoides, foram selecionados ao acaso. Após tratamento clássico com sais básicos de levamisole (7 pacientes) e de pamoato de pirantel (8), os ovos retirados das fêmeas expelidas ficaram incubados por 18 dias em de H2SO4 N/10. A seguir foram administrados per os a grupos de 5 camundongos por ...