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Combined use of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis recombinant rPb27 and rPb40 antig...
Fernandes, V. C.; Coitinho, Juliana Barbosa; Veloso, Juliana Márcia Ribeiro; Araújo, Stanley de Almeida; Pedroso, Enio Roberto PietraParacoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is one of themost important endemicmycoses in LatinAmerica; it's usually diagnosed by observation and/or isolation of the etiologic agent, Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, as well as by a variety of immunological methods, such as complement fixation and immunodiffusion. Although these approaches are useful, historically their sensitivity and specificity have often been compromised by ...
Paracoccidioidomycosis case series with and without central nervous system invo...
Pedroso, Vinicius Sousa Pietra; Lyon, Ana Cláudia; Araújo, Stanley de Almeida; Veloso, Juliana Márcia Ribeiro; Pedroso, Enio Roberto PietraIntroduction: Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is the most important systemic mycosis in South America. Central nervous system involvement is potentially fatal and can occur in 12.5% of cases. This paper aims to contribute to the literature describing eight cases of neuroparacoccidioidomycosis (NPMC) and compare their characteristics with patients without neurological involvement, to identify unique characteristics...
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...