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Acremonium kiliense infection in a child with chronic granulomatous disease
Pastorino,Antonio Carlos; Menezes,Ulissis Pádua de; Marques,Heloisa Helena de Souza; Vallada,Marcelo G.; Cappellozi,Vera LúciaInfection by unusual microorganisms can be one of the clinical manifestations of primary immunodeficiency (PID). We report on a four-month-old child with pneumonia caused by the fungus Acremonium kiliense as the first clinical manifestation of chronic granulomatous disease. We emphasize the importance of an active search for unusual organisms in immunodeficient patients, and a precise diagnosis and early instit...
Vaccine-associated paralytic Poliomyelitis: a case report of domiciliary transm...
Paz,José A.; Vallada,Marcelo G.; Marques,Silvia N. C. H.; Casella,Erasmo B.; Marques,Heloisa H. S.; Marques-Dias,Maria J.Poliomyelitis associated with live strain vaccine is defined as the paralytic form of the acute anterior poliomyelitis related to the vaccine strain. Since these strains behave similarly to the wild-type virus, we can differentiate, epidemiologically, two types of vaccine-associated poliomyelitis: cases in which the patient was vaccinated and cases in which the patient had had contact with vaccinated individual...