Volume 46 January/February 2013

Editorial

• Investment in drugs for neglected diseases: a portrait of the last five years

  Monique Araújo de Brito

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Review Article

• Clinical research monitoring: scenarios and challenges

  Gustavo Adolfo Sierra RomeroI II

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Major Article

• Evaluation of the therapeutic response of hepatitis C in coinfected patients (HIV/HCV): a study of cases from a hospital for chronic liver diseases in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon

  Ivanete do Socorro Abraçado AmaralI II Lizomar de Jesus Maués Pereira MóiaI II III Maria Silvia de Brito BarbosaI III Samia DemachkiIII Marialva Tereza Ferreira de AraújoIII Manoel do Carmo SoaresIV

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• Epidemiology of the viral hepatitis B and C in female prisoners of Metropolitan Regional Prison Complex in the State of Goiás, Central Brazil

  Láiza Alencar Santos BarrosI Grécia Carolina PessoniII Sheila Araújo TelesII Sandra Maria Brunini de SouzaII Marcos André de MatosII Regina Maria Bringel MartinsI Nativa Helena Alves Del-RiosII Márcia Alves Dias de MatosI Megmar Aparecida dos Santos CarneiroII

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• Serologic survey of hantavirus in a rural population from the northern State of Mato Grosso, Brazil

  Ioni Oliveira SantosI Glauciane Garcia de FigueiredoII Luiz Tadeu Moraes FigueiredoII Maria Regina Andrade de AzevedoIII Neil Ferreira NovoIII Celidéia Aparecida Coppi VazIII

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• Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carrying SCCmec type IV in southern Brazil

  Luciane Cristina GelattiI II Renan Rangel BonamigoI Fernanda Matsiko InoueIII Mirian Silva do CarmoIII Ana Paula BeckerI Fernanda Marques da Silva CastrucciIII Antônio Carlos Campos PignatariIII Pedro Alves d' AzevedoI

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• Antimicrobial use, incidence, etiology and resistance patterns in bacteria causing ventilator-associated pneumonia in a clinical-surgical intensive care unit

  Michel Rodrigues MoreiraI Munick Paula GuimarãesI Aurélia Aparecida de Araújo RodriguesII Paulo Pinto Gontijo FilhoI

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• Impact of the introduction of an automated microbiologic system on the clinical outcomes of bloodstream infections caused by Enterobacteriaceae strains

  Luciana Azevedo CallefiI Eduardo Alexandrino Servolo de MedeirosI Guilherme Henrique Campos FurtadoI

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• Impact of an intervention in the use of sequential antibiotic therapy in a Brazilian university hospital

  Raquel Melo RodriguesI Astrídia Marília de Souza FontesI II Orlando César ManteseI Renata Souza MartinsI Miguel Tanús JorgeI II

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• Factors of poor prognosis of visceral leishmaniasis among children under 12 years of age. A retrospective monocentric study in Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2001-2005

  Alexandre Sérgio da Costa BragaI Antonio Carlos de Castro Toledo JuniorII Ana RabelloIII

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• Epidemiological aspects of American cutaneous leishmaniasis and phlebotomine sandfly population, in the municipality of Monte Negro, State of Rondônia, Brazil

  Carolina Bioni Garcia TelesI Sergio Almeida BasanoI Marcelo Zagonel-OliveiraII Jimmy Joy CamposIII Arley Faria José de OliveiraIV Rui Alves de FreitasV Jansen Fernandes MedeirosVI Felipe Arley Costa PessoaVII Aldina BarralVIII Luís Marcelo Aranha CamargoIX

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• Plasmodium vivax malaria: related factors to severity in the State of Maranhão, Brazil

  Camila Cristina Bastos Silva RaposoI João Barberino SantosII Gisele Maria Campelo dos SantosIII Eloísa da Graça do Rosário GonçalvesI IV Antonio Rafael da SilvaI IV

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• Oral coinfection can stress peripheral lymphocyte to inflammatory activity in leprosy

  Ana Carolina Fragoso MottaI João Carlos Lopes SimãoI Renata Bazan FuriniI Maria Aparecida Nunes FerreiraI Patrícia Vianna Bonini PalmaII Marilena Chinali KomesuIII Norma Tiraboschi FossI

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• Efficacy of voriconazole in experimental rat paracoccidioidomycosis

  Daniela Silva GranzotoI Lúcia Helena VitaliII Roberto MartinezII

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• Perceptions of the usefulness of external support to immunization coverage in Guinea-Bissau: a Delphi analysis of the GAVI-Alliance cash-based support

  Paulo FerrinhoI Mohamed DraméII Sidu BiaiIII Orlando LopesIV Fernando de Sousa JrV Wim Van LerbergheII

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• Current status of herpesvirus identification in the oral cavity of HIV-infected children

  Raquel dos Santos PinheiroI Dennis de Carvalho FerreiraII Flávia NóbregaI Norma Suely de Oliveira SantosIII Ivete Pomarico Ribeiro de SouzaI Gloria Fernanda Barbosa de Araujo CastroI

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Short Communication

• AIDS tendencies in São Mateus microregion, state of Espírito Santo, and Brazil from 1999 to 2008

  Ana Paula Martins VilelaI Franciéle Marabotti Costa LeiteI Edilson Romais SchmildtI Simone Mendes CarvalhoI Susana BubachI Kamila Medani TristãoI Emanuelle Pires de AmorimI

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• Production and diagnostic application of recombinant domain III of West Nile envelope protein in Brazil

  Juliana Helena ChávezI Vinicius Pinho dos ReisI Jaqueline Raymondi SilvaI Helen Julie LaureII III José Cesar RosaII III Benedito Antônio Lopes da FonsecaI Luiz Tadeu Moraes FigueiredoI

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• Tetracycline and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole at clinical laboratory: can they help to characterize Staphylococcus aureus carrying different SCCmec types?

  Fernanda Sampaio CavalcanteI Ricardo Pinto SchuenckII Roberta Mello Ferreira CabocloI Dennis de Carvalho FerreiraI Simone Aranha NouérIII IV Kátia Regina Netto dos SantosI

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• Hemolytic and urease activities in vibrios isolated from fresh and frozen oysters

  Renata Albuquerque CostaI II Rayza Lima AraújoI Regine Helena Silva dos Fernandes VieiraI II

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• Correlation between microdilution, Etest, and disk diffusion methods for antifungal susceptibility testing of fluconazole against Candida sp. blood isolates

  Everardo Albuquerque MenezesI Antônio Alexandre de Vasconcelos JúniorI Maria Rozzelê Ferreira ÂngeloII Maria da Conceição dos Santos Oliveira CunhaI Francisco Afrânio CunhaI

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• In vitro predatory activity of conidia of fungal isolates of the Duddingtonia flagrans on Angiostrongylus vasorum first-stage larvae

  Fabio Ribeiro BragaI Juliana Milani AraujoI Jackson Victor de AraújoI Filippe Elias de Freitas SoaresII Alexandre de Oliveira TavelaI Luiza Neme FrassyI Walter dos Santos LimaIII Lanuze Rose MozzerIII

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• Larvicidal activity of crude extracts from Larrea cuneifolia (Zygophyllaceae) and of its metabolite nordihydroguaiaretic acid against the vector Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae)

  Gonzalo BatallánI II Romina TorreI Fernando FloresII Brenda KonigheimII Francisco Ludueña-AlmeidaI Carlos TonnIII Marta ContigianiII Walter AlmirónI

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• Demographic determinants of survival of people living with HIV attending an outpatient reference unit in the city of Três Lagoas, state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, in the period 1984-2009

  Maria Angelina da Silva ZuqueI II Domingos Alves MeiraII Carlos Magno Castelo Branco FortalezaII

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Case Report

• Atypical presentation of sporotrichosis: report of three cases

  Melissa Orzechowski XavierI II Laura Riffel BittencourtII III Cláudio Moss da SilvaI IV Roseli Stone VieiraIV Hugo Cataud Pacheco PereiraI

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• Liver transplantation for neotropical polycystic echinococcosis caused by Echinococcus vogeli: a case report

  Tércio GenziniI Nilton Ghiotti de SiqueiraI Huda Maria NoujaimI Regina Gomes dos SantosI Eduardo Tomohissa YamashitaI Alisson Paulino Trevizol I Marcelo PerosaI

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• Fulminant gastrointestinal hemorrhage due to Strongyloides stercoralis hyperinfection in an AIDS patient

  Valdes Roberto BollelaI Cinara FelicianoI André Costa TeixeiraII Ana Carolina Ribeiro JunqueiraI Marcos Antonio RossiII

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• The first report of infection with Klebsiella pneumoniae carrying the bla kpc gene in State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

  Marilene Rodrigues ChangI Camila Arguelo BibergII Fernando Aguilar LopesIII Andyane Freitas TetilaIV Antonio Carlos Campos PignatariV

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Images in Infectious Diseases

• Histoplasmosis associated with Addison’s disease

  Lísea WilhelmI Nara MartinsII Érico Silva LoretoIII IV

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Letter

• Anopheles deaneorum: a new potential malaria vector in State of Santa Catarina, Brazil (Diptera: Culicidae)

  Carlos Brisola MarcondesI Vinicios Ferreira de FreitasI

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