Volume 48 July/August 2015

Editorial

• 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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• Where there is no overlap, there is a gap

  Nicholas Di Paola[1] Paolo Marinho de Andrade Zanotto[1]

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• Saint Louis encephalitis virus and other arboviruses in the differential diagnosis for dengue

  Luiz Tadeu Moraes Figueiredo[1]

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• Selfishness among healthcare workers and nosocomial infections: a causal relationship?

  Fernando Bellissimo-Rodrigues[1] [2] Wanessa Teixeira Bellissimo-Rodrigues[1] Mayra Gonçalves Menegueti[2]

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• Mannose-binding lectin and susceptibility to human retrovirus infections

  Antonio Carlos Rosário Vallinoto[1] Marluísa de Oliveira Guimarães Ishak[1] Ricardo Ishak[1]

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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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• Scientific progress versus ecological influence on Schistosoma mansoni transmission

  Amélia Ribeiro de Jesus[1] [2] José Antônio Pacheco de Almeida[3]

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• Cancer and parasitic infections: similarities and opportunities for the development of new control tools

  Guilherme Oliveira

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• Seventy years of the Chagas disease Bambuí Project: celebration and perspectives

  João Carlos Pinto Dias[1] Christiane Santos Matos[1]

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• The discovery of Chagas disease (1908-1909): great successes and certain misunderstandings and challenges

  José Rodrigues Coura[1]

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• Author recognition, impact factor, relevance, and the meaning of publishing

  Manoel Otávio da Costa RochaI

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• The dispersion of Lutzomyia longipalpis in urban areas

  Reginaldo Peçanha Brazil[1]

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• 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

• 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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• 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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Short Communication

• 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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• 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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Case Report

• 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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• 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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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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