Volume 50 November/December 2017

Editorial

• 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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Review Article

• Is waste collection associated with hepatitis B infection? A meta-analysis

  Marcos Paulo Gomes Mol^{1 2} Sandy Cairncross³ Dirceu Bartolomeu Greco⁴ Leo Heller⁵

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• Therapeutic drug monitoring of benznidazole and nifurtimox: a systematic review and quality assessment of published clinical practice guidelines

  Marcos Paulo Gomes Mol^{1 2} Sandy Cairncross³ Dirceu Bartolomeu Greco⁴ Leo Heller⁵

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Major Article

• Ectopic forms of schistosomiasis mansoni in the second macroregion of Alagoas: case series report and review of the literature

  Carlos William Rodrigues Lima¹ Nathalie Macêdo Cruz de Oliveira¹ Simone Vicente Dias da Silva¹ Maria Eugênia Leite Duarte² Ana Paula Fernandes Barbosa³

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• Morbidity of schistosomiasis mansoni in a low endemic setting in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil

  Carolina Coimbra Marinho¹ André Caldeira Grobério¹ Christiane Torres Felício da Silva¹ Thaysa Lorranne Fernandes de Lima¹ Rosiane Cristina dos Santos¹ Lúcia Gomes de Araújo² Vivian Walter dos Reis¹ George Luiz Lins Machado-Coelho¹

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• Diet Quality of patients with chronic Chagas disease in a tertiary hospital: a case-control study

  Mariana Pereira de Castilhos¹ Grazielle Vilas Bôas Huguenin^{2 3} Paulo Rogério Melo Rodrigues⁴ Emília Matos do Nascimento⁵ Basílio de Bragança Pereira^{1 5} Roberto Coury Pedrosa¹

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• New strategy to improve quality control of Montenegro skin test at the production level

  Deborah Carbonera Guedes¹ João Carlos Minozzo^{1 2} Aline Kuhn Sbruzzi Pasquali¹ Craig Faulds³ Carlos Ricardo Soccol¹ Vanete Thomaz-Soccol¹

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• Central venous catheter-related infections in patients receiving short-term hemodialysis therapy: incidence, associated factors, and microbiological aspects

  Mayra Gonçalves Menegueti¹ Natália Cristina Betoni² Fernando Bellissimo-Rodrigues³ Elen Almeida Romão²

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• Human leptospirosis in the Federal District, Brazil, 2011-2015: eco-epidemiological characterization

  Ivanildo de Oliveira Correia Santos¹ Marina Frota de Albuquerque Landi² Laurício Monteiro Cruz¹ Maria Isabel Rao Bofill¹ Divino Eterno dos Santos¹ Eduardo Maurício Mendes de Lima² Márcio Botelho de Castro²

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• Seroprevalence and spatial distribution dynamics of Yersinia pestis antibodies in dogs and cats from plague foci in the State of Ceará, Northeastern Brazil

  Larissa Leão Ferrer de Sousa^{1 2} Carlos Henrique Morais de Alencar² Alzira Maria Paiva de Almeida³ Luciano Pamplona de Góes Cavalcanti²

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• Detection of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa harboring bla GES-1 and bla GES-11 in Recife, Brazil

  Valdemir Vicente da Silva Júnior¹ Laura Durão Ferreira¹ Lílian Rodrigues Alves¹ Adriane Borges Cabral¹ Paula Regina Luna de Araújo Jácome¹ Paulo Sérgio Ramos de Araújo¹ Ana Catarina de Souza Lopes¹ Maria Amélia Vieira Maciel¹

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Short Communication

• Serosurvey of Leptospira spp. and Toxoplasma gondii in rats captured from two zoos in Southern Brazil

  Maysa Pellizzaro¹ Francisco de Oliveira Conrado² Camila Marinelli Martins³ Sâmea Fernandes Joaquim¹ Fernando Ferreira³ Helio Langoni⁴ Alexander Welker Biondo⁵

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• Prevalence of and risk factors for intestinal parasite infections in pediatric patients admitted to public hospitals in Southern Brazil

  Isis Almeida de Almeida¹ Sabrina Jeske¹ Marília Arndt Mesemburg² Maria Elisabeth Aires Berne¹ Marcos Marreiro Villela¹

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• Schistosomiasis in the Amazon region: is the current diagnostic strategy still appropriate?

  Sergei Rodrigo Magalhães de Sousa^{1 2} Alessandra de Queiroz Carvalho³ Joyce Favacho Nogueira Cardoso^{1 2} Paulo Marcos Zech Coelho⁴ Stefan Michael Geiger⁵ Martin Johannes Enk¹

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• Variability in the clinical distributions of Candida species and the emergence of azole-resistant non-Candida albicans species in public hospitals in the Midwest region of Brazil

  Karine Mattos¹ Luana Carbonera Rodrigues² Kelly Mari Pires de Oliveira² Pedro Fernando Diniz¹ Luiza Inahê Marques³ Adriana Almeida Araujo⁴ Marilene Rodrigues Chang^{1 3 4}

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• Seroprevalence of human Trypanosoma cruzi infection in the North of Estado de Mexico

  Saúl González-Guzmán^{1 2} Sergio Pichardo-Ávila³ Eulalia Mimbrera-Rodríguez³ José Antonio Crescencio-Trujillo⁴ María de Lourdes Gasca-Leyva⁵ Fernando Martínez-Hernández⁶ Nancy Rivas⁷ Ricardo Alejandre-Aguilar⁷

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• Prevalence of and risk factors associated with the presence of Staphylococcus aureus in the chronic wounds of patients treated in primary health care settings in Brazil

  Eliane Patricia Lino Pereira-Franchi^{1 2} Maria Rachel Nogueira Barreira¹ Natália de Sousa Lima Moreira da Costa¹ Carlos Magno Castelo Branco Fortaleza² Maria de Lourdes Ribeiro de Souza da Cunha¹

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• Rhodnius stali: new vector infected by Trypanosoma rangeli (Kinetoplastida, Trypanosomatidae)

  Gabriela Vieira de Souza Castro¹ Mariane Albuquerque Lima Ribeiro^{1 2} Leandro José Ramos^{2 3} Jader de Oliveira^{4 5} João Aristeu da Rosa^{4 5} Luis Marcelo Aranha Camargo^{1 2 3 5 6} Dionatas Ulises de Oliveira Meneguetti^{1 9 10}

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• Synanthropic triatomines as potential vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi in Central Brazil

  Thaís Tâmara Castro Minuzzi-Souza¹ Nadjar Nitz² César Augusto Cuba Cuba¹ Marcelo Santalucia³ Monique Knox⁴ Luciana Hagström² Camilla Bernardes Furtado¹ Tamires Emanuele Vital2 Marcos Takashi Obara1 Mariana Machado Hecht2 Rodrigo Gurgel-Gonçalves1

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• First serologic evidence of human hantavirus infection in Alagoas State in Northeastern Brazil

  José Alfredo dos Santos-Júnior¹ Flávio Martins dos Santos¹ Patrícia Alves Barros¹ Nedja Poliane Torres Medeiros¹ Gilberto Sabino-Santos Júnior² Magliones Carneiro de Lima³ Luiz Tadeu Moraes Figueiredo² Alessandra Abel Borges¹

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Case Report

• Disseminated cutaneous sporotrichosis in patient with alcoholism

  Ana Maria Benvegnú^{1 2} Juliana Stramari¹ Lia Natália Diehl Dallazem^{1 2} Raíssa Massaia Londero Chemello^{1 3} André Avelino Costa Beber^{1 3}

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• Epididymo-orchitis caused by Histoplasma capsulatumin a Colombian patient

  Carlos Andrés Botero-García¹ Álvaro Adolfo Faccini-Martínez^{2 3} Erika Uribe⁴ Omar-Javier Calixto⁵ Carlos Eduardo Pérez-Díaz^{4 6} Pedro Pablo Osejo-Diago⁷ Pedro Gabriel Franco-Maz^{7 8}

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• Traumatic rupture of liver hydatid cysts into the peritoneal cavity of an 11-year-old boy: a case report from Iran

  Sadaf Sabzevari¹ Alireza Badirzadeh^{2 3} Reza Shahkaram⁴ Mohammad Seyyedin⁵

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• Sofosbuvir and daclatasvir combination therapy for current hepatitis C virus genotype 4 achieves SVR: a case report of HCV genotype 4 from the Amazon

  Andréa Monteiro Tarragô^{1 2} Grenda Leite Pereira^{1 2} Flamir da Silva Victória^{3 4} Adriana Malheiro Alle Marie^{1 2} Marilú Barbieri Victória^{3 4}

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Images in Infectious Diseases

• Cryptococcosis in a transplanted kidney allograft

  Stanley de Almeida Araújo^{1 2} André Barreto Pereira³ Roberto Ferreira de Almeida Araújo⁴

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• A case of brucellar spondylitis with lumbar spondylolisthesis

  Yao Zhang¹ Qiang Zhang¹ Chang-song Zhao¹

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Letter

• A proposal for the use of standardized abbreviations for the genera of triatomine bugs (Reduviidae: Triatominae) across the World

  Carlos Brisola Marcondes¹

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Erratum

• Erratum

  Vol.50(5): Table 2 - page 600, September-October, 2017

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