Volume 48 January/February 2015

Editorial

• ChatGPT: the new panacea of the academic world

  Lucindo José Quintans-Júnior, Ricardo Queiroz Gurgel, Adriano Antunes de Souza Araújo, Dalmo Correia, Paulo Ricardo Martins-Filho

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• Evaluation of in-vitro susceptibility of ß-lactam-resistant Gram-negative bacilli to ceftazidime-avibactam and ceftolozane-tazobactam from clinical samples of a general hospital in southern Brazil

  Thaisa Noceti Carvalho, Vanessa Cristine Kobs, Daniela Hille, Roseneide Campos Deglmann, Luiz Henrique Melo, Paulo Henrique Condeixa de França

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• Epidemiology and control of trachoma in the state of Ceará, Northeast Brazil, 2007-2021

  Adjoane Maurício Silva Maciel, Alberto Novaes Ramos Jr, Vivian da Silva Gomes, Anderson Fuentes Ferreira, Nádia Maria Girão Saraiva de Almeida, Daniela Vaz Ferreira Gómez, Joana da Felicidade Ribeiro Favacho, Manuella Maurício Silva Maciel, Antônio Lucas Delerino, Roberto da Justa Pires Neto

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• Factors Associated with the Abandonment of Tuberculosis Treatment in Brazil: A Systematic Review

  Larissa Araújo de Lucena, Gabriela Bezerra da Silva Dantas, Taynara Vieira Carneiro, Hênio Godeiro Lacerda

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• SARS-CoV-2 laboratory surveillance during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in southern Brazil

  Ludmila Fiorenzano, Baethgen, Ana Beatriz Gorini da Veiga, Richard Steiner Salvato, Talita Giacomet de Carvalho, Thaiane Rispoli, Sun Hee Schiefelbein, Letícia Garay MartinsCEVS-COVID-19 Team, Zenaida Marion Alves Nunes, Anelise Praetzel Schaurich, Loeci Natalina Timm, Rosane Campanher Ramos, Cynthia Goulart Molina Bastos, Tatiana Schäffer Gregianini

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• Serology for visceral leishmaniasis: How trusty is the accuracy reported by the manufacturers?

  Mariana Lourenço, FreireMaria Clara de Oliveira, GonçalvesAllana Carolina, Marques da SilvaGláucia, CotaAna RabelloTália, Santana Machado de Assis

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• Kidney Injury Biomarkers in Leptospirosis

  Pablo Uribe-Restrepo, Claudia Munoz-Zanzi, Piedad Agudelo-Flórez

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• Severe disseminated clinical presentation of monkeypox virus infection in an immunosuppressed patient: first death report in Brazil

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• Current evidence of neurological features, diagnosis, and neuropathogenesis associated with COVID-19

  Puccioni-Sohler, Marzia; Poton, André Rodrigues; Franklin, Milena; Silva, Samya Jezine da; Brindeiro, Rodrigo; Tanuri, Amilcar¹

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• Asymptomatic low pulse oximetry measurements in leprosy patients in the time of COVID-19: Dapsone side effect

  Frade, Marco Andrey Cipriani; Bernardes Filho, Fred; Lima, Ana Laura Quirino de; Menezes, Marcelo Bezerra de; Lugão, Helena Barbosa¹

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• Pathophysiological aspects of neuro-COVID

  Finsterer, Josef; Scorza, Fulvio A; Fiorini, Ana C¹

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• Pseudo-honeycombing in a patient with coronavirus disease 2019 pneumonia

  Hochhegger, Bruno; Zanetti, Gláucia; Marchiori, Edson¹

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• Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection among healthcare workers in a tertiary public hospital in Curitiba, Brazil

  Spalanzani, Regiane Nogueira; Genelhoud, Gustavo; Raboni, Sonia Mara; Almeida, Sergio Monteiro de; Pereira, Luciane Aparecida; Rotta, Indianara; Cavalli, Barbara Maria; Moreira, Francielli Brusco; Dino, Carolina Lumi Tanaka; Takahashi, Gislene Reche de Almeida; Cognialli, Regielly Caroline Raimundo; Spiri, Beatriz Sanada; Bochnia-Bueno, Lucas; Oliveira, Jaqueline Carvalho de; Adamoski, Douglas; Gradia, Daniela Fiori; Bonatto, Ana Cláudia; Wassem, Roseli; Alves, Juliana Mazini; Padilha, Raquel da Silva; Brasil, Vitor Jorge Woytuski; Almeida, Bernardo Montesanti Machado de; Nogueira, Meri Bordignon¹

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• COVID-19 epidemic curve in Brazil: a sum of multiple epidemics, whose inequality and population density in the states are correlated with growth rate and daily acceleration. An ecological study

  Pinto, Airandes de Sousa; Rodrigues, Carlos Alberto; Nascimento Sobrinho, Carlito Lopes; Cruz, Lívia Almeida da; Santos Junior, Edval Gomes dos; Nunes, Paulo Cesar; Costa, Matheus Gomes Reis; Rocha, Manoel Otávio da Costa¹

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• Comprehensive care for people with sexually transmitted infections

  Taís Freire Galvão1,Carlos Henrique Nery Costa2,Leila Posenato Garcia3¹

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• The value of mitigating epidemic peaks of COVID-19 for more effective public health responses

  Daniel Antunes Maciel Villela¹

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• Apresentação

  J. Rodrigues da Silva

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• Adolpho Lutz – Autor e pioneiro do método de sedimentação para o diagnóstico de ovos de S. mansoni nas fezes

  J. Rodrigues Coura

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• Nosso lema: incentivar as pesquisas

  Samuel Barnsley Pessoa

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• Novos conceitos sobre os antimoniais pentavalentes no tratamento da leishmaniose

  Philip Davis Marsden

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• Incremento do programa de controle da doença de Chagas no Brasil

  José Taquarussú Fiusa Lima

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• Criptosporidiose humana

  Philip Davis Marsden

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• Situação atual do controle da malária no Brasil

  Agostinho Cruz Marques

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• Modificação da resposta imune por agentes quimioterápicos

  Carlos Eduardo Tosta

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• A Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

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• Cardiopatia e parasitismo no chagásico crônico

  Hipólito de Oliveira Almeida

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• El instituto de medicina tropical de la facultad de medicina de la universidad central de Venezuela

  Dr. Félix Pifano C.

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• Possíveis fatores responsáveis pela morte intracelular do plasmódio

  Carlos Eduardo Tosta

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• Instituto de medicina tropical “Daniel A. Carrión”

  César Náquira Velarde

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• Progressos no tratamento da malária falciparum grave

  David A. Warrell

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• Breve descripción del Centro de Investigaciones “Dr. José Francisco Torrealba”

  Harry Acquatella

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• Auto-immunity in Chagas’ disease: fact or fancy? cause or consequence?

  Felipe Kierszenbaum

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• Gossypol: a potential trypanocidal agent

  Antonio Blanco

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• O foco brasileiro de oncocercose

  Hermann G. Schatzmayr

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• Hepatites virais: um desafio nacional

  Mário A. P. Moraes

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• Haemagogus leucocelaenus em ambiente urbano

  Pedro Luiz Tauil

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• O financiamento da pesquisa em doenças tropicais no Brasil

  José Duarte de Araújo

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• Dipetalogaster maxima or D. maximus as a xenodiagnostic agent

  Philip Davis Marsden

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• Programa de controle da doença de Chagas no Brasil em 1986

  João Carlos Pinto Dias

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• Oncocercose: novos focos no Brasil?

  Mario A. P. Moraes

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• Patologia sinusoidal do fígado e esquistossomose

  Zilton A. Andrade

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• O problema do Aedes aegypti no Brasil

  Pedro Luiz Tauil

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• Quando a fibrose hepática se torna uma doença…

  Jean-Alexis Grimaud; Michel Druguet; Daniel Hartmann

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• Vinte e cinco e vinte anos de Existência da sociedade e de sua revista

  J. Rodrigues Coura

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• A erradicação da poliomielite

  João Baptista Risi Jr.

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• Imunodeficiência associada à malária

  Carlos Eduardo Tosta

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• Progressos nas pesquisas de leishmaniose visceral na área endémica de Jacobina, Bahia 1934-1989

  Roberto Badaró

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• Megaesôfago, megacólon e câncer

  Edison Reis Lopes

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• O papel da consangüinidade na esquistossomose hepatosplênica em certas áreas endêmicas

  Aluizio Prata

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• As técnicas de imunoperoxidase no estudo da etiologia das doenças infectuosas e parasitárias

  Alfredo J. A. Barbosa

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• Citocinas, integrinas e patogenia da malária

  Carlos Eduardo Tosta; Leopoldo L. Santos-Neto

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• Quimioprofilaxia da Doença de Chagas transfusional. Realidade atual

  Helio Moraes de Souza

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• Chronic malaria and Brazil

  Philip Davis Marsden

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• Chaga’s disease as endemic to the brazilian Amazon: risk or hypothesis?

  José Rodrigues Coura

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• O combate às doenças endêmicas e a pendular regionalização dos Serviços de Saúde

  Aluizio Prata

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• Paracoccidioidomkose – doença do sistema fagocitico mononuclear

  William Barbosa; Guilherme Lopes Barbosa

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• Malaria and anaemia

  G.G Crane

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• The future of tropical medicine institutes in Europa

  Prof. Dr. Luc Eyckmans

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• Genetic predisposition to high infections in an endemic area of Schistosoma mansoni

  Laurent AbelI; Alain DesseinII

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• Splenic aspiration in visceral leishmaniasis

  P.A. Kager

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• The intestinal protozoology laboratory

  Philip D. Marsden

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• The anaemia of hyperreactive malarious splenomegaly

  G. G. Crane

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• HIV disease in Africa

  Charles F. Gilks

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• Doença da arranhadura do gato e AIDS

  Mario E. Camargo

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• Interação, infecção, nutrição e imunidade

  Domingos Alves Meira

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• The ward laboratory

  Philip Davis Marsden

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• Tratamento da hanseníase com poliquimioterapia padrão OMS com duração fixa

  Gerson Oliveira Penna

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• Escabiose

  Philip D. Marsden

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• Ulcera péptica: doença psicossomática ou infecciosa? Fatores etiológicos da úlcera péptica revisitados após dez anos do advento do Campylobacter-Helicobacter

  Julio Studart de Moraes

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• A síndrome da imunodeficiência adquirida e as doenças endêmicas no Brasil

  Marcelo Simão Ferreira

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• Hiperimunoglobulinemia e, doenças parasitárias e infecção estafilocócica

  J. Roberto Lambertucci

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• Espiroquetose intestinal humana

  Thales De Brito; Marina P. Sandoval; Ana G. Silva; R.C. Saad; W. Colaiacovo

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• CITOLOGIA ASPIRATIVA EM DOENÇAS INFECCIOSAS

  Fernando Carlos Schmitt

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• ONDE PUBLICAR?

  Philip Davis Marsden

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• MODELOS ANIMAIS

  Philip Davis Marsden

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• Fighting Rheumatic Heart Disease: What are the next moves?

  Bruno Ramos Nascimento1 2 http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5586-774X Andrea Zawacki Beaton3 4

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• West Nile virus infection in Brazil

  Luiz Tadeu Moraes Figueiredo1 http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6800-6076

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• The use of meta-analysis in infectious disease surveillance: Is it a relevant tool?

  Antonio Toledo Jr1 http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8912-2589

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• Infectrons and coevolution

  Carlos Eduardo Tosta1

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• A quimioprofilaxia de doenças transmissíveis por transfusão em componentes lábeis hemoterápicos

  Silvano Wendel1

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• Paul W. Ewald. Plague Time: how stealth infections cause cancers, heart disease, and other deadly ailments. The Free Press, New York, EUA, 2000.

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• Centenário do descobrimento da doença de Chagas: desafios e perspectivas

  Guilherme MalafaiaI; Aline Sueli de Lima RodriguesII

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• Meio século de convivência com Aluízio Prata. Um depoimento em homenagem aos seus 90 anos

  José Rodrigues Coura

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• New times: tropical medicine for the cities and beyond

  Carlos Henrique Nery CostaI;II,III

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• Ventilator-associated pneumonia and oral health

  Fernando Bellissimo-RodriguesI; Wanessa Teixeira Bellissimo-RodriguesII

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• Parasite, vectors and reservoirs as determinants of tegumentary leishmaniasis

  Edgar Marcelino Carvalho

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• Dengue in Brazil

  Luiz Tadeu Moraes Figueiredo

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• The new Tropical Medicine

  Carlos Henrique Nery CostaI, II, III

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• The use of meta-analysis in infectious disease surveillance: Is it a relevant tool?

  Antonio Toledo Jr

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• Electrocardiogram in Chagas disease: can anything be learned from an old tool?

  Alexandre C. Pereira¹

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• Functional capacity in Chagas disease

  Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro¹

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• A quick fix for Chagas disease therapy: a new trick using an old drug

  Jair Lage de Siqueira-Neto¹

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• Has the threat of Zika virus outbreaks come to an end?

  Luiz Tadeu Moraes Figueiredo¹

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• Tuberculosis: renewed challenge in Brazil

  Valdes Roberto Bollela¹

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• The continuous challenge of Chagas disease treatment: bridging evidence-based guidelines, access to healthcare, and human rights

  Alberto Novaes Ramos-Junior¹ Andréa Silvestre de Sousa^{2 3}

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• Large outbreaks of Chikungunya virus in Brazil reveal uncommon clinical features and fatalities

  Luiz Tadeu Moraes Figueiredo¹

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• Digital disease data: what is the impact on the Zika virus epidemic?

  Marcus Vinicius Gomes da Silva¹ Danillo Lucas Alves Esposito¹ Benedito Antônio Lopes da Fonseca¹

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• Implications of SNPs on toll-like receptor genes in malaria: what do we know?

  Allyson Guimarães Costa^{1 2 3} Rajendranath Ramasawmy^{1 2 4 5} Adriana Malheiro^{1 3 5} Marcus Vinícius Guimarães Lacerda^{1 2 6}

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• Zika – The road from an obscure disease to an epidemic of information

  Flavia Masson de Moraes¹ Danillo Lucas Alves Esposito¹ Benedito Antônio Lopes da Fonseca¹

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• How are so many foreign arboviruses introduced in Brazil?

  Luiz Tadeu Moraes Figueiredo¹

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Review Article

• Pharmacologic management of pain in patients with Chikungunya: a guideline

  Carlos Alexandre Antunes de Brito¹ Ana Karla Arraes von Sohsten² Clezio Cordeiro de Sá Leitão² Rita de Cássia Coelho Moraes de Brito³ Lilian David De Azevedo Valadares⁴ Caroline Araújo Magnata da Fonte⁵ Zelina Barbosa de Mesquita⁶ Rivaldo Venâncio Cunha^{7 8} Kleber Luz⁹ Helena Maria Carneiro Leão¹⁰ Cecília Moraes de Brito¹¹ Lívia Carla Vinhal Frutuoso¹²

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Major Article

• In vitro antischistosomal activity of venom from the Egyptian snake Cerastes cerastes

  Ehssan Ahmed Hassan¹ Mohamed Ahmed Abdel-Rahman¹ Mohamed Moussa Ibrahim^{1 2} Maha Farid Mohamed Soliman¹

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• Secondary bacterial isolates from previously untreated Buruli ulcer lesions and their antibiotic susceptibility patterns in Southern Nigeria

  Moses Chibueze Anyim¹ Anthony Obiamaka Meka¹ Joseph Ngozi Chukwu¹ Charles Chukwunalu Nwafor¹ Daniel Chukwunweolu Oshi^{1 2} Nelson Okechukwu Madichie¹ Ngozi Ekeke¹ Chukwuka Alphonsus¹ Obinna Mbah¹ Chinenye Nwaekpe³ Martin Njoku⁴ Dare Fakiyesi⁴ Vitalis Ulodiaku⁵ Ignatius Ejiofor⁶ Adeniyi Hakeem Bisiriyu⁷ Kingsley Nnanna Ukwaja⁸

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• Number of leprosy reactions during treatment: clinical correlations and laboratory diagnosis

  Douglas Eulálio Antunes^{1 2} Gabriela Porto Ferreira¹ Mariana Vitorino Candeiro Nicchio^{1 2} Sergio Araujo^{1 2} Ana Carolina Rodrigues da Cunha^{1 2} Rafaela Resende Gomes¹ Adeilson Viera da Costa¹ Isabela Maria Bernardes Goulart^{1 2}

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• Predicting death from kala-azar: construction, development, and validation of a score set and accompanying software

  Dorcas Lamounier Costa^{1 2} Regina Lunardi Rocha³ Eldo de Brito Ferreira Chaves² Vivianny Gonçalves de Vasconcelos Batista² Henrique Lamounier Costa⁴ Carlos Henrique Nery Costa^{2 5}

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• High seroconversion rates in Trypanosoma cruzi chronic infection treated with benznidazole in people under 16 years in Guatemala

  Lucia Brum-Soares¹ Juan-Carlos Cubides¹ Iris Burgos¹ Carlota Monroy² Leticia Castillo³ Selene González³ Pedro Albajar Viñas⁴ Pedro Pablo Palma Urrutia⁵

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• Benznidazole therapy for Chagas disease in asymptomatic Trypanosoma cruzi -seropositive former blood donors: evaluation of the efficacy of different treatment regimens

  André Pires Antunes¹ Antônio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro² Ester Cerdeira Sabino³ Marise Fagundes Silveira¹ Cláudia Di Lorenzo Oliveira⁴ Ana Cristina de Carvalho Botelho¹

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• Biofilm inhibition activity of traditional medicinal plants from Northwestern Argentina against native pathogen and environmental microorganisms

  Cintia Mariana Romero^{1 2} Cristian Germán Vivacqua¹ María Belén Abdulhamid¹ Mario Domingo Baigori^{1 2} Alberto Carlos Slanis³ María Cristina Gaudioso de Allori² María Laura Tereschuk⁴

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• Sandflies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in an urban area of Northeastern Brazil

  Maria Claudia Ribeiro Agra^{1 2} Pietra Lemos Costa² Anderson Enio Silva Duque² Efraim Naftali Lopes Soares³ Leucio Câmara Alves⁴ Rafael Antonio Nascimento Ramos⁵ Gílcia Aparecida de Carvalho⁵

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• In vitro evaluation of the effect of botanical formulations used in the control of Aedes aegypti L. (Diptera: Culicidae) on liver enzymes.

  Karla Rejane de Andrade Porto¹ Priscilla Rezende Motti² Alexandre Alves Machado³ Antonia Railda Roel^{1 2 3}

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• A biodegradable device for the controlled release of Piper nigrum (Piperaceae) standardized extract to control Aedes aegypti (Diptera, Culicidae) larvae

  Kauê Muller Custódio¹ Joice Guilherme de Oliveira² Diego Moterle¹ Karine Modolon Zepon¹ Josiane Somariva Prophiro² Luiz Alberto Kanis¹

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Short Communication

• Adverse drug reactions among patients admitted with infectious diseases at a Brazilian hospital

  Pamela Alejandra Saavedra¹ Micheline Marie Milward de Azevedo Meiners² Luciane Cruz Lopes³ Emília Vitória da Silva² Dayde Lane Mendonça da Silva¹ Elza Ferreira Noronha⁴ Maria Inês de Toledo¹

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• High incidence of hypertriglyceridemia in a Brazilian cohort of people living with HIV/AIDS undergoing antiretroviral treatment in Belo Horizonte, 2001-2010

  Cássia Cristina Pinto Mendicino¹ Letícia Pena Braga² Cristiane Aparecida Menezes de Pádua² Mark Drew Crosland Guimarães¹

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Images in Infectious Diseases

• Meloidogyne eggs in human stool in Northeastern Brazil

  Fred Luciano Neves Santos¹ Alina Maria Gonzaga Carlos de Souza² Filipe Dantas-Torres³

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Letter

• Natural history of liver fibrosis progression in patients confected with hepatitis c virus and human immunodeficiency virus type 1

  Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya¹ Sumana Mukherjee²

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Authors Reply

• Fibrosis progression in chronic hepatitis C in patients coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C virus

  Rejane Maria Tommasini Grotto^{1 2} Maria Inês de Moura Campos Pardini^{1 3}

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Mini Review

• An overview of Bothrops erythromelas venom

  Neriane Monteiro Nery¹ Karla Patrícia Luna² Carla Freire Celedônio Fernandes^{1 3} Juliana Pavan Zuliani^{1 4}

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Presentation

• Towards control of Chagas disease: the contribution of the new brazilian consensus

  Alberto Novaes Ramos Jr¹ João Carlos Pinto Dias² Dalmo Correia³

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