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Associantion between leprosy and hepatitis B infecion: a survey in Goiânia, Cen...
Rosa, Heitor; Costa, Ana Paula V.F.; Ferraz, Maria Lúcia; Pedroza, Suelene C.; Andrade, Ana Lúcia S.S.; Martelli, Celina M.T.; Zicker, FábioThis investigation presents the results of Hepatitis B virus screening among leprosy patients conducted in Central Brazil as a preliminary information for a HBV vaccination programme. The main objectives were to assess the seroprevalence of HBV serum markers among lepromatous patients and to analyse institutionalization as risk factor for HBV infection in this population. Two groups of lepromatous patients were...
A randomized clinical trial with high dose of chloroquine for treatment of Plas...
Andrade, João Guimarães de; Andrade, Ana Lúcia Sampaio Sgambatti de; Araujo, Elisabeth S. O.; Oliveira, Renato Maurício; Silva, Simonne AlmeidaThis clinical trial compared parasitological efficacy, levels of in vivo resistance and side effects of oral chloroquine 25 mg/Kg and 50 mg/Kg in 3 days treatment in Plasmodium falciparum malaria with an extended followed-up of 30 days. The study enroled 58 patients in the 25 mg/Kg group and 66 in the 50 mg/Kg group. All eligible subjects were over 14 years of age and came from Amazon Basin and Central Brazil d...
Blood bank screening for HIV infection: epidemiological analyses in a low preva...
Andrade, Ana Lúcia Sampaio Sgambatti de; Martelli, Celina Maria Turchi; Almeida e Silva, Simonne; Santana, Cesar Leite; Zicker, Fábio
Bacterial flora of abscesses following Bothrops snakebite
Andrade, João guimarães De; Pinto, Raimundo Nonato L.; Andrade, Ana Lúcia Sampaio Sgambatti de; Martelli, Celina Maria turchi; Zicker, FábioThe bacterial flora of 99 cases of abscesses following Bothrops snakebite were analysed. They corresponded to 61.1% of all snakebite abs cesses observed in 1030 patients attending the Hospital de Doenças Tropicais de Goiânia in Goiás, Brazil, from January 1984 to April 1988. An exsudate sample of each abscess was examined by Gram stain, culture and susceptibility tests. The Gram negative bacillis, Morganella mo...
Evolution of schistosomiasis in an hyperendemic area of the Minas Gerais state:...
Costa, Maria Fernanda Furtado de Lima e; Rocha, R. S.; Zicker, Fábio; Katz, NaftaleTwo cross-sectional studies on schistosomiasis mansoni were done in Comercinho, Minas Gerais (Brazil), at an interval of 7 years. In 1974 and 1981 feces examinations (KATO-KATZ method) were done in 89 and 90% of the population (about 1,500 inhabitants) and clinical examinations were done in 78 and 92% of the patients who excreted Schistosoma mansoni eggs in the feces, respectively. The rate of infection by S. m...