Volume 49 November/December 2016

Editorial

• 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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