Volume 48 July/August 2015

Editorial

• New times: tropical medicine for the cities and beyond

  Carlos Henrique Nery CostaI;II,III

  PDF

• Ventilator-associated pneumonia and oral health

  Fernando Bellissimo-RodriguesI; Wanessa Teixeira Bellissimo-RodriguesII

  PDF

• Parasite, vectors and reservoirs as determinants of tegumentary leishmaniasis

  Edgar Marcelino Carvalho

  PDF

• Dengue in Brazil

  Luiz Tadeu Moraes Figueiredo

  PDF

• The new Tropical Medicine

  Carlos Henrique Nery CostaI, II, III

  PDF

Major Article

• Relationship between antibiotic consumption, oropharyngeal colonization, and ventilator-associated pneumonia by Staphylococcus aureus in an intensive care unit of a Brazilian teaching hospital

  Michel Rodrigues Moreira; Paulo Pinto Gontijo Filho

  PDF

• Geographic analysis on the occurrence of human and canine leptospirosis in the city of Maringá, state of Paraná, Brazil

  Udelysses Janete Veltrini FonzarI, II; Hélio LangoniIII

  PDF

• Drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains in southern Brazil

  Laynara Katize GrutzmacherI; Eduardo Monguilhott DalmarcoII; Solange Lucia BlattI; Caio Mauricio Mendes de CordovaI

  PDF

• Epidemiological, clinical, and operational aspects of leprosy patients assisted at a referral service in the state of Maranhão, Brazil

  Rita da Graça Carvalhal Frazão CorrêaI; Dorlene Maria Cardoso de AquinoI; Arlene de Jesus Mendes CaldasI; Dayse Karen Carneiro Rêgo AmaralI; Fábio Silva FrançaII; Emygdia Rosa Rêgo Barros Pires-Leal MesquitaI

  PDF

• Electromyography function, disability degree, and pain in leprosy patients undergoing neural mobilization treatment

  Larissa Sales Téles VérasI, II, III; Rodrigo Gomes de Souza ValeII; Danielli Braga de MelloII, IV; José Adail Fonseca de CastroI, V; Vicente LimaII; Alexis TrottVI, VII; Estélio Henrique Martin DantasII

  PDF

Short Communication

• Fauna of Culicidae in rural areas of Porto Velho and the first record of Mansonia (Mansonia) flaveola (Coquillet, 1906), for the state of Rondônia, Brazil

  Renata Antonaci GamaI; Ivoneide Maria da SilvaII; Hamilton Antônio de Oliveira MonteiroIII; Álvaro Eduardo EirasIV

  PDF

• Incidence of congenital toxoplasmosis in the city of Belém, state of Pará, northern Brazil, determined by a neonatal screening program: preliminary results

  Cléa Nazaré Carneiro BicharaI, II; Giselle Acácia de Cristo CantoIII, IV; Camila de Lima TostesIII, IV; Jofre Jacob da Silva FreitasV; Ediclei Lima do CarmoVI; Marinete Marins PóvoaVI; Eliete da Costa SilveiraIV, VII

  PDF

• Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) in the region of Saquarema: potential area of visceral leishmaniasis transmission in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  Reginaldo Peçanha BrazilI; Michelle Cristina de Queiroz PontesI; Wagner Lança PassosI; Andressa Alencaste FuzariI; Beatriz Gomes BrazilII

  PDF

• Prevalence of serum antibodies to hantavirus in a rural population from the southern state of Santa Catarina, Brazil

  Gregório Wrublevski PereiraI, II, III; André Martins TeixeiraI, III; Mirela Silva de SouzaI, III; Alixandre Dias BragaI, III; Gilberto Sabino dos Santos JuniorIV, V; Glauciane Garcia de FigueiredoIV, V; Luiz Tadeu Moraes FigueiredoIV, VI; Alessandra Abel BorgesIII, VII

  PDF

Case Report

• Abnormal spontaneous interleukin 8 receptor expression: a brief report of two cases

  Paulo AntasI, II, III; Steven HollandII; Timothy SterlingIII, IV

  PDF

• Severe coinfection of melioidosis and dengue fever in Northeastern Brazil: first case report

  Rafael Nogueira MacedoI; Felipe Araujo RochaI; Dionne Bezerra RolimII; Dina Cortez Lima Feitosa VilarIII; Fernanda Montenegro de Carvalho AraújoIV; Nélia Nogueira VieiraII; Juliana Rodrigues TeixeiraII; Maíza Colares CarvalhoI, II; Francisco George Magalhães OliveiraI; Luciano Pamplona de Góes CavalcantiV, VI

  PDF

• Splenectomy in a patient with treatment-resistant visceral leishmaniasis: a case report

  Robson Azevedo Dutra; Laura Ferreira Dutra; Milene de Oliveira Reis; Raul Coelho Lambert

  PDF

• Chikungunya virus infection: report of the first case diagnosed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  Isabella Gomes Cavalcanti de AlbuquerqueI; Renato MarandinoII; Aline Pimentel MendonçaII; Rita Maria Ribeiro NogueiraIII; Pedro Fernando da Costa VasconcelosIV; Leopoldino Rodrigues GuerraII; Beatriz Castro BrandãoII; Ana Paula Pimentel MendonçaII; Guilherme Ribeiro AguiarII; Paula Angélica Martinez de BaccoI

  PDF

Images in Infectious Diseases

• Radiological appearance of small bowel in severe strongyloidiasis

  Umesh Chandra Parashari; Sachin Khanduri; Dileep Kumar

  PDF

Letter

• SARIMA for predicting the cases numbers of dengue

  Viroj Wiwanitkit

  PDF

Obituary

• Antônio Carlos Silveira (*1948 †2011)

  Pedro Luiz Tauil

  PDF

Technical Report

• First occurrence of the human biting midge Leptoconops brasiliensis (Lutz) (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in the triple border of Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia

  Felipe Arley Costa PessoaI; Eloy Guillermo Castellón-BermúdezII; Jansen Fernandes MedeirosIII; Luís Marcelo Aranha CamargoIV

  PDF