Volume 51 April/June 2018

Editorial

• Has the threat of Zika virus outbreaks come to an end?

  Luiz Tadeu Moraes Figueiredo¹

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Review Article

• Prevalence of metallo-β-lactamase-encoding genes among carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from burn patients in Iran

  Fereshteh Jabalameli¹ Elahe Taki¹ Mohammad Emaneini¹ Reza Beigverdi¹

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• Zika virus: – a review of the main aspects of this type of arbovirosis

  Ítala Keane Rodrigues Dias¹ Cicera Luciana da Silva Sobreira¹ Rosa Maria Grangeiro Martins² Kelly Fernanda Silva Santana¹ Maria do Socorro Vieira Lopes³ Emanuella Silva Joventino⁴ Maria Corina Amaral Viana³

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Major Article

• Epidemiological study of snakebite cases in Brazilian Western Amazonia

  Katia Regina Pena Schesquini Roriz¹ Kayena Delaix Zaqueo^{2 3} Sulamita Silva Setubal² Tony Hiroshi Katsuragawa⁴ Renato Roriz da Silva¹ Carla Freire Celedônio Fernandes^{2 4} Luiz Augusto Paiva Cardoso⁵ Moreno Magalhães de Souza Rodrigues² Andreimar Martins Soares² Rodrigo Guerino Stábeli^{1 2} Juliana Pavan Zuliani^{1 2}

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• Performance of the IS6110-TaqMan® assay in the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis from different biological samples

  Fabiana Cristina Fulco Santos¹ Laís Ariane de Siqueira Lira¹ Rosana de Albuquerque Montenegro¹ Juliana Figueirêdo da Costa Lima¹ Andrea Santos Lima¹ Haiana Charifker Schindler¹ Lílian Maria Lapa Montenegro¹

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• A diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis and drug resistance among inmates in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

  Eunice Atsuko Totumi Cunha¹ Marli Marques² Maria do Socorro Nantua Evangelista^{3 4} Maurício Antonio Pompilio⁵ Renata Terumi Shiguematsu Yassuda⁶ Albert Schiaveto de Souza⁷

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• Mucosal leishmaniasis: the experience of a Brazilian referral center

  Mariana Junqueira Pedras^{1 2} Janaína de Pina Carvalho^{1 2} Rosiana Estéfane da Silva¹ Dario Brock Ramalho³ Maria Camilo Ribeiro de Senna¹ Hugo Silva Assis Moreira¹ Lorena Zaine Matos Martinho³ Ana Rabello^{1 2} Gláucia Cota^{1 2}

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• Systematic neonatal screening for congenital Chagas disease in Northeast Brazil: prevalence of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in the Southern region of Sergipe

  Fábia Regina dos Santos¹ Diana Matos Euzébio² Genilde Gomes de Oliveira² Mayra Souza Chagas³ Alex Ricardo Ferreira³ Lídia Almeida Mendonça³ Dalmo Correia¹ Angela Maria da Silva^{1 3}

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• Occurrence of the vanA gene in Staphylococcus epidermidis from nasopharyngeal secretion of Health-Care Workers, Recife, Brazil

  Armando Monteiro Bezerra Neto¹ Marcelle Aquino Rabelo¹ Jailton Lobo da Costa Lima¹ Stéfany Ojaimi Loibman² Nilma Cintra Leal³ Maria Amélia Vieira Maciel^{1 4}

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• Field evaluation of sticky BR-OVT traps to collect culicids eggs and adult mosquitoes inside houses

  Morgana do Nascimento Xavier^{1 2} Eloína Maria de Mendonça Santos² Ana Paula Alves da Silva³ Plínio Pereira Gomes Júnior³ Rosângela Maria Rodrigues Barbosa² Cláudia Maria Fontes de Oliveira²

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• Larvicidal effect of Clinopodium macrostemum essential oil extracted by microwave-assisted hydrodistillation against Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae)

  Alejandra Rojas-Olivos¹ Rodolfo Solano-Gómez¹ Carlos Granados-Echegoyen² Luis Alberto Santiago-Santiago³ Jorge García-Dávila³ Rafael Pérez-Pacheco¹ Luicita Lagunez-Rivera¹

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• Variation in temephos resistance in field populations of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) in the State of Sergipe, Northeast Brazil

  Roseli La Corte^{1 2} Vladimir Antonio Dantas Melo² Silvio Santana Dolabella^{1 2} Leticia Silva Marteis³

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• Evaluation of inflammatory biomarkers, carotid intima-media thickness and cardiovascular risk in HIV-1 treatment-naive patients

  Priscila Valéria do Carmo Carvalho¹ Júlia Fonseca de Morais Caporali² Érica Leandro Marciano Vieira³ Nathalia Sernizon Guimarães¹ Marise Oliveira Fonseca² Unai Tupinambás^{1 2}

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Short Communication

• Can Aspergillus fumigatus conidia cause false-positive results in the galactomannan enzyme immunoassay test?

  Ângela Leitzke Cabana¹ Josiara Furtado Mendes¹ Gabriel Baracy Klafke² Tchana Martinez Brandolt³ Aryse Martins Melo⁴ Mário Carlos Araújo Meireles¹ Melissa Orzechowski Xavier^{2 4}

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• Antiplasmodial and antileishmanial activities of compounds from Piper tuberculatum Jacq fruits

  Flávio Augusto de Souza Oliveira¹ Guilherme Matos Passarini² Daniel Sol Sol de Medeiros² Ana Paula de Azevedo Santos² Saara Neri Fialho² Aurileya de Jesus Gouveia² Marcinete Latorre² Elci Marlei Freitag² Patrícia Soares de Maria de Medeiros³ Carolina Bioni Garcia Teles^{2 4 5} Valdir Alves Facundo⁶

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• Molecular diagnosis of cutaneous leishmaniasis in an endemic area of Acre State in the Amazonian Region of Brazil

  Thais de Araujo-Pereira¹ Daniela de Pita-Pereira¹ Regina Barbosa Moreira² Tainah Silva-Galdino² Márcia P. de Oliveira Duarte² Reginaldo Peçanha Brazil³ Constança Britto¹

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• Socio-epidemiological characterization of human leptospirosis in the Federal District, Brazil, 2011-2015

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

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• Detection of antibodies against Leptospira spp in free-living marsupials caught in the Eastern Amazon

  Gleiciane Schupp de Sena Mesquita¹ Katarine de Souza Rocha¹ Thamillys Rayssa Marques Monteiro¹ Marcely Karen Santos do Rosário¹ Ianny Watuzy Monteiro Baia² Helyanne de Sousa Pereira³ Valiria Duarte Cerqueira¹ Carla Cristina Guimarães de Moraes¹

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• Serological and molecular detection of Leptospira spp in dogs

  Giulia Soares Latosinski¹ Felipe Fornazari¹ Selene Daniela Babboni¹ Karen Caffaro¹ Antonio Carlos Paes¹ Helio Langoni¹

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• Coexistence of virulence genes in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates

  Adriana Medianeira Rossato¹ Keli Cristine Reiter¹ Pedro Alves d’Azevedo¹

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• Depression and anxiety disorders among patients with human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1: a cross-sectional study with a comparison group

  Pedro Augusto Sampaio Rocha-Filho^{1 2} Liliana Raulino Goncalves³

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• Clinical and laboratorial features of oral candidiasis in HIV-positive patients

  Regiane Nogueira Spalanzani¹ Karine Mattos¹ Luiza Inahe Marques¹ Pedro Fernando Diniz Barros¹ Pamela Iruama Peres Pereira³ Anamaria Mello Miranda Paniago² Rinaldo Poncio Mendes⁴ Marilene Rodrigues Chang^{1 2}

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• Neurologic manifestations in emerging arboviral diseases in Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil, 2015-2016

  Marina Baptista de Azevedo¹ Márcia Sandre Coelho Coutinho¹ Mônica Agostinho da Silva¹ Denise Bastos Arduini¹ Juliana Dias Vieira Lima¹ Rosangela Monteiro¹ Bárbara Nicácio Bahia Mendes¹ Maria Cristina Ferreira Lemos¹ Claudio Pompeiano Noronha¹ Valéria Saraceni¹

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Case Report

• A rare case of gastric mucormycosis in an immunocompetent patient

  Bruno Fernandes Barros Brehme de Abreu¹ Márcio Luís Duarte¹ Lucas Ribeiro dos Santos² Angelo Sementilli³ Felipe Nunes Figueiras⁴

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• Atrial fibrillation in acute Chagas disease acquired via oral transmission: a case report

  Paulo Fernando Pimenta de Souza¹ Rosane Cheble Domingues Pine² Francisco Lúzio de Paula Ramos³ Ana Yecê das Neves Pinto³

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• Combination therapy with liposomal amphotericin b (ambisome), n-methylglucamine antimoniate (glucantime), and pentamidine isethionate in a refractory visceral leishmaniasis case

  Maria Antonia Ferreira Gomes¹ Lana Lira Cantidio de Medeiros¹ Fernanda Paula Dantas Lobo¹ Nathália Rayane Silva Wanderley² Ana Paula Rodrigues Matos² Tácito do Nascimento Jácome³ Maria Goretti Lins Monteiro⁴ Kleber Giovanni Luz5

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• Encephalitis associated with Zika virus infection and reactivation of the varicella-zoster virus in a Brazilian child

  Marcelo Adriano da Cunha e Silva Vieira^{1 2 3} Alzira Almeida de Sousa Castro⁴ Daniele Freitas Henriques⁵ Eliana Vieira Pinto da Silva⁵ Fernando Neto Tavares⁶ Lívia Carício Martins⁵ Lucas Melo Guimarães⁷ Talita Antonia Furtado Monteiro^{3 6} Raimunda do Socorro da Silva Azevedo⁵ Ana Cecíclia Ribeiro Cruz⁵ Pedro Fernando da Costa Vasconcelos⁵

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Images in Infectious Diseases

• Neurosyphilis manifesting as trigeminal nerve dysfunction

  Leonardo Junio da Silva Medeiros¹ Edson Marchiori¹ Paulo Roberto Valle Bahia¹

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• Encephalitis and transverse myelitis in dengue and chikungunya coinfection

  Luis Arthur Brasil Gadelha Farias¹ Juliana Mandato Ferragut² Roberto da Justa Pires Neto^{1 3}

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Obituary

• Erratum: Para-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis in a patient in Brazil: a case report

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

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• Professor Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig (1928-2018) First steps towards a successful anti-sporozoite vaccine against malaria

  Antoniana Ursine Krettli^{1 2 3}

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