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The first Acanthamoeba keratitis case in the Midwest region of Brazil: diagnosi...
Alves, Daniella de Sousa Mendes Moreira; Gonçalves, Gustavo Souza; Moraes, Aline Silva; Alves, Luciano Moreira; Carmo Neto, José Rodrigues doWe report an Acanthamoeba keratitis case associated with the use of contact lens in a 28-year-old female from Brasília, Brazil. Samples from corneal scraping and contact lens case were used for culture establishment, PCR amplification, and partial sequencing (fragments of ~400kb) of small subunit rDNA; both culture and PCR were positive. The sequence analyses of the cornea and of isolates from the contact lens ...
Nursing infant with acquired toxoplasmosis in the first months of life – a case...
Rezende, Hanstter Hallison Alves; Storchilo, Heloísa Ribeiro; Lima, Jaqueline Ataíde Silva; Gomes Júnior, Antônio Roberto; Gomes, Taynara CristinaToxoplasmosis is caused by Toxoplasma gondii and the probability of this infection occurring in the first months of life is usually low because its transmission is related to eating habits. A 6-month-old nursing infant was diagnosed with acute toxoplasmosis, which was identified through anti- T. gondii IgA, IgM and low-avidity IgG serologic assays, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and mouse bioassay test althoug...