Volume 50 January/February 2017

Editorial

• 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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Review Article

• Bacterial immunostat: Mycobacterium tuberculosis lipids and their role in the host immune response

  Adriano Queiroz^{1 2} Lee W. Riley¹

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• Keeping track of hidden dangers – The short history of the Sabiá virus

  Joel Henrique Ellwanger¹ José Artur Bogo Chies¹

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Major Article

• Prevalence and distribution of Angiostrongylus cantonensis (Nematoda, Angiostrongylidae) in Achatina fulica (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in Baixada Santista, São Paulo, Brazil

  Laura Rocha Guerino^{1 2} Iracy Lea Pecora² Marcel Sabino Miranda³ Cryslaine Aguiar-Silva⁴ Omar dos Santos Carvalho⁴ Roberta Lima Caldeira⁴ Reinaldo José da Silva¹

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• Ultrastructural study of morphological changes in Schistosoma mansoni after in vitro exposure to the monoterpene rotundifolone

  Thiago José Matos-Rocha^{1 2} Marília Gabriela dos Santos Cavalcanti^{1 2} José Maria Barbosa-Filho³ Ana Silvia Suassuna Carneiro Lúcio³ Dyana Leal Veras^{1 2} Márcia Ortiz Mayo Marques⁴ Luiz Carlos Alves^{1 2} Fábio André Brayner^{1 2}

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• Invasive fungal infection in patients with hematologic disorders in a Brazilian tertiary care hospital

  Milton Camplesi Junior¹ Hildene Meneses Silva² Adriano Moraes Arantes³ Carolina Rodrigues Costa² Fábio Silvestre Ataides² Thaisa Cristina Silva² Maysa de Paula Costa dos Reis² Maria do Rosário Rodrigues Silva²

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• Antifungal activity of synthetic antiseptics and natural compounds against Candida dubliniensis before and after in vitro fluconazole exposure

  Cássia Franco Reginato¹ Laíssa Arévalo Bandeira² Régis Adriel Zanette³ Janio Morais Santurio⁴ Sydney Hartz Alves⁴ Cristiane Cademartori Danesi⁵

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• Efficacy and safety of amphotericin B deoxycholate versus N-methylglucamine antimoniate in pediatric visceral leishmaniasis: an open-label, randomized, and controlled pilot trial in Brazil

  Myrlena Mescouto Borges^{1 2} Maria Cristina da Silva Pranchevicius¹ Elza Ferreira Noronha² Gustavo Adolfo Sierra Romero² César Omar Carranza-Tamayo²

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• Serodiagnosis of visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis in human and canine populations living in Indigenous Reserves in the Brazilian Amazon Region

  Julia Teresa Ribeiro de Lima¹ Solange Maria Gennari¹ Herbert Sousa ¹ Antonio Humberto Hamad Minervino^{1 2} Antonio Francisco Malheiros³ Fernando Silveira Marques^{1 4} Márcia Dalastra ⁵ Rosangela Zacarias Machado⁶ Arlei Marcili¹ Marcelo Bahia Labruna¹ Rodrigo Martins Soares¹

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• In vitro and in vivo antileishmanial activity of Artemisia annua L. leaf powder and its potential usefulness in the treatment of uncomplicated cutaneous leishmaniasis in humans

  Luz Estella Mesa¹ Daniel Vasquez¹ Pierre Lutgen² Iván Darío Vélez¹ Adriana María Restrepo¹ Isabel Ortiz³ Sara María Robledo¹

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• Analysis of the seroprevalence of and factors associated with Chagas disease in an endemic area in Northeastern Brazil

  Erlane Chaves Freitas¹ Maria de Fátima Oliveira² Arduina Sofia Ortet de Barros Vasconcelos² José Damião da Silva Filho¹ Carlos Eduardo Menezes Viana¹ Kátia Cristina Morais Soares Gomes³ Luciano Pamplona de Góes Cavalcanti^{1 4}

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• Trypanosoma cruzi I genotype among isolates from patients with chronic Chagas disease followed at the Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases (FIOCRUZ, Brazil)

  Tatiana da Silva Fonseca de Oliveira¹ Barbara Neves dos Santos¹ Tainah Silva Galdino² Alejandro Marcel Hasslocher-Moreno³ Otilio Machado Pereira Bastos⁴ Maria Auxiliadora de Sousa^{1 5}

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• Prevalence and factors associated with syphilis in a Reference Center

  Natália Carolina Rodrigues Colombo Gomes¹ Denise Andrade Pereira Meier¹ Flávia Meneguetti Pieri¹ Elaine Alves¹ Silvia Paulino Ribeiro Albanese¹ Edvilson Cristiano ² Ricardo Alexandre Arcêncio³ Elma Mathias Dessunti¹

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• Molecular and clinical epidemiological surveillance of dengue virus in Paraíba, Northeast Brazil

  Isabel Cristina Guerra-Gomes^{1 2} Bruna Macêdo Gois¹ Rephany Fonseca Peixoto¹ Camila Alves Oliveira³ Bruna Leal Lima Maciel⁴ Maria Izabel Ferreira Sarmento⁵ Anna Stella Cysneiros Pachá⁵ Josélio Maria Galvão Araújo³ Ian Porto Gurgel Amaral² Tatjana Souza Lima Keesen^{1 2 3}

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Short Communication

• Human envenomations caused by Portuguese man-of-war (Physalia physalis) in urban beaches of São Luis City, Maranhão State, Northeast Coast of Brazil

  Denise Maria Ramalho Ferreira Bastos¹ Vidal Haddad Júnior² Jorge Luiz Silva Nunes³

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• In vivo and in vitro activity of oil extract of garlic (Allium sativum Linnaeus) against Schistosoma japonicum cercariae

  Kang Wan¹ Peng Wang¹ Leibo Zhang¹

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• The development of Panstrongylus herreri under fluctuating environmental conditions

  Edson Franzim Junior¹ Maria Tays Mendes¹ Ana Carolina Borella Marfil Anhê² Afonso Pelli³ Marcos Vinicius Silva¹ Virmondes Rodrigues Junior¹ Helioswilton Sales-Campos¹ Carlo Jose Freire Oliveira¹

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• Relative validity of a food frequency questionnaire in patients coinfected with hepatitis C virus and human immunodeficiency virus

  Anelise Fernanda Zanolla¹ Caroline Buss^{1 2} Dimas Alexandre Kliemann^{1 3} Giselle Souza Pinto⁴ Vivian Silveira Vasques⁴ Cristiane Valle Tovo^{1 5 6}

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• Platelet-derived growth factor A mRNA in platelets is associated with the degree of hepatic fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C

  Aline Aki Tanikawa¹ Rejane Maria Tommasini Grotto^{2 3} Giovanni Faria Silva⁴ Adriana Camargo Ferrasi² Valéria Cristina Rodrigues Sarnighausen³ Maria Inês de Moura Campos Pardini^{2 4}

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• Undiagnosed acute HIV infection identified through RNA testing of pooled serum samples obtained during a dengue outbreak in São Paulo, Brazil

  Elaine Monteiro Matsuda¹ Daniela Rodrigues Colpas² Norberto Camilo Campos³ Luana Portes Ozorio Coelho³ Andreia Moreira dos Santos Carmo² Luís Fernando de Macedo Brígido³

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• Spatial-temporal analysis of dengue deaths: identifying social vulnerabilities

  Maria do Socorro da Silva¹ Maria dos Remédios Freitas Carvalho Branco^{2 3 4} José Aquino Junior^{3 5} Rejane Christine de Sousa Queiroz^{5 6} Emanuele Bani³ Emnielle Pinto Borges Moreira³ Maria Nilza Lima Medeiros⁷ Zulimar Márita Ribeiro Rodrigues^{3 5}

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• Subversion of immunoproteasome subunit expression in dengue virus serotype 2-infected HepG2 cells

  Chye Sheng Gan^{1 2} Pei Jean Lim³ Muhammad Fazril Mohamad Razif¹ Rohana Yusof^{1 2} Shatrah Othman^{1 2}

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Case Report

• Adverse systemic reaction to benznidazole

  María Verónica Pacheco Coronel¹ Laura Oriente Frutos² Eva Calabuig Muñoz² Diana Kury Valle¹ Dolores Hernández Fernández de Rojas¹

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• Cellular immunodeficiency related to chronic dermatophytosis in a patient with Schistosoma mansoni infection: can schistosomiasis induce immunodeficiency?

  Maurício Domingues Ferreira¹ Anna Cristina Collaniere¹ Dalton Luís Bertolini¹ Noac Chuffi Barros¹ Dewton de Moraes Vasconcelos¹

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• Paracoccidioidomycosis in a liver transplant recipient

  Thais Carneiro Lima¹ Regis Otaviano Franca Bezerra¹ Luiz Tenório de Brito Siqueira¹ Marcos Roberto de Menezes¹ Claudia da Costa ¹ Gilda Porta¹ Giovanni Guido Cerri¹

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• Identification of São Paulo metallo-beta-lactamase-1-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the Central-West region of Brazil: a case study

  Wirlaine Glauce Maciel¹ Kesia Esther da Silva¹ José Victor Bortolotto Bampi¹ Graciela Mendonça dos Santos Bet^{1 2} Ana Carolina Ramos³ Ana Cristina Gales³ Simone Simionatto¹

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Images in Infectious Diseases

• Disseminated histoplasmosis diagnosed in a peripheral blood smear

  André Luiz Maltos¹ Evaldo Maia¹ Cristina da Cunha Hueb Barata de Oliveira²

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Erratum

• Erratum

  Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical/ Journal of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine

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• Erratum

  Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical/ Journal of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine

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