Volume 50 May/June 2017

Review Article

• Prevalence of and risk factors for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Iran and its neighboring countries: systematic review and meta-analysis

  Worku Jimma^{1 2 3} Marjan Ghazisaeedi⁴ Leila Shahmoradi⁴ Ahmed Abdulahi Abdurahman^{3 5} Sharareh Rostam Niakan Kalhori⁴ Mahshid Nasehi^{7 8} Sharifi Yazdi⁶ Reza Safdari⁴

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Major Article

• Injuries caused by freshwater stingrays in the Tapajós River Basin: a clinical and sociodemographic study

  Paulo Afonso Martins Abati¹ Pasesa Pascuala Quispe Torrez¹ Francisco Oscar de Siqueira França¹ Fabio Lambertini Tozzi² Flávio Mileo Bacelar Guerreiro² Suellen Aline Torres dos Santos² Sheyla Mara Silva de Oliveira² Vidal Haddad Junior³

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• Biological and molecular properties of yellow venom of the Amazonian coral snake Micrurus surinamensis

  Fabiana da Rocha Oliveira¹ Maria das Dores Nogueira Noronha² Jorge Luis Lopez Lozano²

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• Sensitivity and specificity of the circulating cathodic antigen rapid urine test in the diagnosis of Schistosomiasis mansoni infection and evaluation of morbidity in a low- endemic area in Brazil

  Fernanda Teixeira Ferreira¹ Thiago André Fidelis¹ Thiago Almeida Pereira^{1 2} Alba Otoni^{1 3} Leonardo Campos Queiroz¹ Frederico Figueiredo Amâncio¹ Carlos Maurício Antunes⁴ José Roberto Lambertucci¹

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• Standardization and evaluation of a duplex real-time quantitative PCR for the detection of Leishmania infantum DNA: a sample quality control approach

  Lays Adrianne Mendonça Trajano-Silva^{1 2} Rômulo Pessoa-e-Silva^{1 3} Suênia da Cunha Gonçalves-de-Albuquerque^{1 3} Rayana Carla Silva de Morais¹ Cíntia Nascimento da Costa-Oliveira¹ Tayná Correia de Goes¹ Milena de Paiva-Cavalcanti¹

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• Influence of environmental enrichment on the behavior and physiology of mice infected by Trypanosoma cruzi

  Déborah Maria Moreira da Silva¹ Laila Pinheiro¹ Cristiano Schetini Azevedo^{1 2} Guilherme de Paula Costa³ André Talvani^{2 3 4 5}

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• Pharmacotherapeutic follow-up of patients with Chagas disease using benznidazole: drug-related problems and pharmaceutical interventions

  João Paulo Ramalho Correia¹ Alanna Carla da Costa^{1 2} Eduardo Arrais Rocha³ Ana Rosa Pinto Quidute³ Darlan da Silva Cândido⁴ Ângela Maria de Souza Ponciano⁵ Marta Maria de França Fonteles^{2 5} Maria de Fátima Oliveira^{1 2}

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• Characterization of biofilm formation, antimicrobial resistance, and staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec analysis of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus hominis from blood cultures of children

  Setareh Soroush¹ Fereshteh Jabalameli¹ Morovat Taherikalani² Mohammad Amin Eslampour³ Reza Beigverdi¹ Mohammad Emaneini¹

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• Molecular detection of β-lactamase and integron genes in clinical strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae by multiplex polymerase chain reaction Sedighi, Mansour; Halajzadeh, Masoumeh; Ramazanzadeh, Rashid; Amirmozafari, Noor; Heidary, Mohsen; Pirouzi, Serve

  Mansour Sedighi¹ Masoumeh Halajzadeh¹ Rashid Ramazanzadeh^{2 3} Noor Amirmozafari¹ Mohsen Heidary¹ Serve Pirouzi⁴

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• Distribution of the bla OXA , bla VEB-1 , and bla GES-1 genes and resistance patterns of ESBL-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from hospitals in Tehran and Qazvin, Iran

  Sahar Amirkamali¹ Taghi Naserpour-Farivar² Khadijeh Azarhoosh² Amir Peymani²

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• Influence of meteorological variables on dengue incidence in the municipality of Arapiraca, Alagoas, Brazil

  Washington Luiz Félix Correia Filho¹

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• Association between TGFβ1 polymorphisms and chronic hepatitis B infection in an Iranian population

  Ebrahim Eskandari^{1 2} Malihe Metanat³ Elham Pahlevani³ Tooba Nakhzari-Khodakheir⁴

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Short Communication

• Clinical and epidemiological aspects of cases of tuberculosis associated with diabetes in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

  Sâmia Barreto Leal¹ Gleide Santos de Araújo² Joilda Silva Nery^{2 3} Carlos Antonio de Souza Teles Santos Maeli Gomes de Oliveira⁴ Mauricio Lima Barreto⁵ Susan Martins Pereira²

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• Reassessment of quality of life domains in patients with compensated Chagas heart failure after participating in a cardiac rehabilitation program

  Mauro Felippe Felix Mediano¹ Fernanda de Souza Nogueira Sardinha Mendes¹ Vivian Liane Mattos Pinto¹ Paula Simplício da Silva¹ Alejandro Marcel Hasslocher-Moreno¹ Andrea Silvestre de Sousa¹

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• Seropositivity for Rickettsia spp. and Ehrlichia spp. in the human population of Mato Grosso, Central-Western Brazil

  Maria Cristina Fuzari Bezerra¹ Andréia Lima Tomé Melo² Isis Indaiara Gonçalves Granjeiro Taques² Daniel Moura de Aguiar² Richard Campos Pacheco² Renata Dezengrini Slhessarenko¹

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• Molecular and serological characterization of Leptospira kirschneri serogroup Pomona isolated from a human case in a Brazilian rural area

  Ilana Teruszkin Balassiano¹ Juliana Magalhães Vital-Brazil¹ Tatiane Mendes Varela Ramos¹ Loeci Natalina Timm² Martha Maria Pereira¹

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• Blackfly control from a health education perspective: the individual, the organization, and sustainability of the process

  Érika Silva do Nascimento-Carvalho^{1 2} Marilza Maia-Herzog¹

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• First record of Anopheles konderi Galvão & Damasceno (Diptera: Culicidae) carrying eggs of Dermatobia hominis (Linnaeus Jr.) (Diptera: Oestridae), from Oriximiná municipality, Pará, Brazil

  Ronildo Baiatone Alencar¹ José Ferreira Saraiva¹ Arley Faria José de Oliveira¹ Vera Margarete Scarpassa¹

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• Spatial analysis of viral hepatitis and schistosomiasis coinfection in an endemic area in Northeastern Brazil

  Márcio Bezerra Santos^{1 2} Allan Dantas dos Santos^{2 3} Patrícia Pereira da Silva⁴ Aline Silva Barreto² Erlon Oliveira dos Santos⁵ Alex Vianey Callado França⁶ Constança Simões Barbosa⁷ Karina Conceição Gomes Machado de Araújo^{2 8}

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• Neurological manifestations of dengue in Central Brazil

  Marianna Peres Tassara^{1 2} Adriana Oliveira Guilarde^{1 2} Benigno Alberto Moraes da Rocha¹ Valéria Christina de Rezende Féres³ Celina Maria Turchi Martelli^{1 4}

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Case Report

• Implication of Tityus apiacas (Lourenco, 2002) in scorpion envenomations in the Southern Amazon border, Brazil

  Bruna Andressa Jung da Silva¹ Nelson Ferreira Fé² André Alexandre dos Santos Gomes¹ Anderson da Silva Souza¹ Jacqueline de Almeida Gonçalves Sachett^{1 2} Hui Wen Fan³ Gisely Cardoso de Melo^{1 3} Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro^{1 2}

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• Acquired hepatocerebral degeneration in a patient with hepatitis B and hepatitis delta virus coinfection

  Viviane de Carvalho¹ Dessana Francis Chehuan¹ Marcia Melo Damian¹

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• Encephalitis associated with inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion due to chikungunya infection in Recife, State of Pernambuco, Brazil

  Norma Lucena-Silva¹ Maria Elisa Lucena Sales de Melo Assunção² Frederico Antônio Pereira Ramos³ Fernanda Azevedo³ Ronaldo Lessa Junior⁴ Marli Tenório Cordeiro⁵ Carlos Alexandre Antunes de Brito⁶

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• Encephalitis associated with the chikungunya epidemic outbreak in Brazil: report of 2 cases with neuroimaging findings

  Licia Pacheco Pereira^{1 2} Rafaela Villas-Bôas² Stephanie Suzanne de Oliveira Scott³ Paulo Ribeiro Nóbrega³ Manoel Alves Sobreira-Neto³ José Daniel Vieira de Castro¹ Bruno Cavalcante⁴ Pedro Braga-Neto³

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Images in Infectious Diseases

• Granulomatous amebic encephalitis caused by Acanthamoeba sp. in an immunocompetent Mexican adult

  Elba Guadalupe Rodríguez-Pérez¹ Kevin Escandón-Vargas² Adriana Ancer³

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• Acute dengue encephalitis in a female Brazilian adult

  Rodolfo Mendes Queiroz^{1 2} Renata Miyake Almeida Prado³ Lucas Giansante Abud^{1 2}

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Letter

• Taxonomic status of Panstrongylus herreri Wygodzinsky, 1948 and the number of Chagas disease vectors

  Jader de Oliveira¹ Kaio Cesar Chaboli Alevi²

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• Arbodiseases: a new and useful term for diseases related to arthropods

  Carlos Brisola Marcondes¹

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Authors Reply

• Panstrongylus herreri and its ability to develop 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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Mini Review

• Chagas disease: review of needs, neglect, and obstacles to treatment access in Latin America

  Eloan Pinheiro¹ Lucia Brum-Soares² Renata Reis³ Juan-Carlos Cubides²

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