Volume 51 September/October 2018

Editorial

• Electrocardiogram in Chagas disease: can anything be learned from an old tool?

  Alexandre C. Pereira¹

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Review Article

• Electrocardiogram in Chagas disease

  Bruno Oliveira de Figueiredo Brito¹ Antônio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro ¹

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Major Article

• Delayed healthcare and secondary infections following freshwater stingray injuries: risk factors for a poorly understood health issue in the Amazon

  Jacqueline de Almeida Gonçalves Sachett^{1, 2} Vanderson Souza Sampaio^{1, 3} Iran Mendonça Silva^{1, 2} Akemi Shibuya⁴ Fábio Francesconi Vale^{1, 5} Fabiano Peixoto Costa² Pedro Pereira de Oliveira Pardal⁶ Marcus Vinícius Guimarães Lacerda^{1, 2, 7} Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro^{1, 2}

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• Distribution of clinical isolates of Candida spp. and antifungal susceptibility of high biofilm-forming Candida isolates

  Gulcan Sahal¹ Isil Seyis Bilkay¹

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• Social determinants of tuberculosis via a zero-inflated model in small areas of a city in Southeastern Brazil

  Carolina Maia Martins Sales^{1, 2} Mauro Niskier Sanchez³ Walter Ramalho⁴ Adelmo Inácio Bertolde^{2, 5} Ethel Leonor Noia Maciel^{1, 2}

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• Clinical impact and cost analysis of the use of either the Xpert MTB Rif test or sputum smear microscopy in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  Anália Zuleika de Castro¹ Adriana Rezende Moreira^{1, 2} Jaqueline Oliveira² Paulo Albuquerque Costa^{2, 3} Carolyne Lalucha Alves Lima Da Graça¹ Mauricio de Andrade Pérez^{4, 5} Afrânio Kritski^{1, 2} Maria Claudia Vater⁴

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• Demographic and clinical characterization of human visceral leishmaniasis in the State of Pernambuco, Brazil between 2006 and 2015

  Jaqueline Maria Dos Santos Sousa¹ Walter Massa Ramalho² Marcia Almeida de Melo³

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• Trypanosoma cruzi seroprevalence among solid organ donors in Ceará State, Brazil

  Alanna Carla da Costa^{1, 2} José Damião da Silva Filho² Eduardo Arrais Rocha³ Mônica Coelho Andrade⁴ Arduina Sofia Ortet de Barros Vasconcelos Fidalgo^{1, 2} Eliana Régia Barbosa Almeida⁵ Carlos Eduardo Menezes Viana^{2, 6} Erlane Chaves Freitas² Ivo Castelo Branco Coelho⁷ Maria de Fátima Oliveira^{1, 2}

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• Phenotypic and molecular detection of metallo-β-lactamase-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from patients with burns in Tehran, Iran

  Akram Azimi¹ Amir Peymani¹ Parham Kianoush Pour¹

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• Molecular analysis, biofilm formation, and susceptibility of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains causing community- and health care-associated infections in central venous catheters

  Muhammad Sohail¹ Zakia Latif¹

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• Prevalence of low bone mass and changes in vitamin D levels in human immunodeficiency virus-infected adults unexposed to antiretrovirals

  Nathalia Sernizon Guimarães¹ Milena Maria Moreira Guimarães² Adriana Maria Kakehasi³ Mariana Guimarães Penido de Paula¹ Júlia Fonseca de Morais Caporali^{1, 2} Érica Leandro Marciano Vieira¹ Pedro Rezende Tanajura¹ Unaí Tupinambás^{1, 2}

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• Diagnostic significance of immunoglobulin G avidity in symptomatic and asymptomatic West Nile virus infection

  Tatjana Vilibic-Cavlek^{1, 2} Branimir Kristofic³ Vladimir Savic⁴ Branko Kolaric^{5, 6} Ljubo Barbic⁷ Irena Tabain1 ¹ Ljiljana Peric^{8, 9} Dario Sabadi^{8, 9} Bozana Miklausic¹⁰ Tanja Potocnik-Hunjadi¹¹ Sanja Zember¹² Vladimir Stevanovic⁷ Eddy Listes¹³ Giovanni Savini¹⁴

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• Prostaglandin A1 triggers Mayaro virus inhibition and heat shock protein 70 expression in an epithelial cell model

  Lucio Ayres Caldas¹ Davis Fernandes Ferreira² Tânia Rosaria Pereira Freitas³

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• Hepatitis B and asymptomatic malaria coinfection in Sub-Saharan African immigrants: epidemiological and clinical features of HBV infection

  Gaetano Scotto¹ Vincenzina Fazio²

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Short Communication

• Injuries caused by fish in a community of Pantanal fishermen: detection, treatment, and prevention of envenomations and trauma

  Vidal Haddad Junior¹

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• Acute kidney injury due to systemic Loxoscelism: a cross-sectional study in Northeast Brazil

  Polianna Lemos Moura Moreira Albuquerque^{1 2} Louise Donadello Tessarolo³ Fernanda Holanda Menezes⁴ Thayanne Barreto de Lima⁴ José Hícaro Hellano Gonçalves Lima Paiva⁵ Geraldo Bezerra da Silva Júnior⁶ Alice Maria Costa Martins³ Elizabeth de Francesco Daher¹

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• Snail transmitters of schistosomiasis and other mollusks of medical and economic importance at the Simplício Queda Única Hydroelectric Plant, Southeast Brazil

  Monica Ammon Fernandez¹ Elizangela Feitosa da Silva¹ Rafael Alves Esteves² Silvana Carvalho Thiengo¹

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• Seroprevalence and risk factors associated with canine visceral leishmaniasis in the State of Paraíba, Brazil

  Raizza Barros Sousa Silva¹ Maurina Lima Porto² Werona de Oliveira Barbosa² Heitor Cândido de Souza³ Nedja Fernanda dos Santos Pinto Marques⁴ Sérgio Santos Azevedo¹ Paulo Paes de Andrade¹ Marcia Almeida de Melo¹

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• Seroprevalence and spatial distribution of canine leishmaniasis in an endemic region in Brazil: how has the situation changed after 10 years?

  Talita Nayara Bezerra Lins¹ Islanne Barbosa de Souza¹ Guilherme Mota Maciel do Rêgo Barros¹ Cléber Vinícius Brito dos Santos² Rômulo Pessoa e Silva³ Leucio Câmara Alves⁴ Gílcia Aparecida de Carvalho¹ Rafael Antonio Nascimento Ramos¹

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• Increased antimicrobial resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae from a University Hospital in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

  Vinícius Victor Lorenzoni^{1 2} Franciéli da Costa Rubert³ Roberta Filipini Rampelotto^{1 2} Rosmari Hörner²

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• In vitro resistance of Enterobacter cloacae isolated from fresh seafood to colistin

  Marília Viana Albuquerque de Almeida¹ Izabelly Linhares Ponte Brito² Antonia Leonádia Siqueira de Carvalho¹ Renata Albuquerque Costa¹

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• The burden of hepatitis C infection in a Southern Brazilian State

  Jefferson Traebert¹ Kátia Regina de Bona Porton Fratoni¹ Letícia Cabral Domingos da Rosa¹ Eliane Traebert¹ Ione Jayce Ceola Schneinder²

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• Effect of chaotropes in Chagas disease and leishmaniasis cross-reacting serology assays for epidemiological surveys

  Anderson Pacheco dos Santos¹ Maria Esther de Carvalho² Luciana Regina Meirelles³ Heitor Franco de Andrade Junior³

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• Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of Chagas disease in an endemic area of Sergipe State, Brazil

  Ivani Rodrigues Glass¹ Allan Dantas dos Santos² Ana Elisabeth Leal Varjão³ Isabela Soares Costa³ Dalmo Correia⁴ Ângela Maria Silva⁵

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Case Report

• The first Acanthamoeba keratitis case in the Midwest region of Brazil: diagnosis, genotyping of the parasite and disease outcome

  Daniella de Sousa Mendes Moreira Alves¹ Gustavo Souza Gonçalves² Aline Silva Moraes³ Luciano Moreira Alves⁴ José Rodrigues do Carmo Neto¹ Mariana Machado Hecht³ Nadjar Nitz³ Rodrigo Gurgel-Gonçalves⁵ Geisa Bernardes¹ Ana Maria de Castro¹ Maria Regina Chalita² Marina Clare Vinaud¹

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• First autochthonous case of canine visceral leishmaniasis in Rondônia, Brazil, a region with no history of visceral leishmaniasis

  Cristian José da Silva¹ Cristiane Batista Mattos² Kátia Paula Felipin² Hélen Paula de Jesus Silva² Lilian Motta Cantanhêde² Renato Porrozzi³ Jansen Fernandes Medeiros² Ricardo de Godoi Mattos Ferreira²

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• Ralstonia mannitolilytica bacteremia in a neonatal intensive care unit

  Dilair Camargo de Souza¹ Jussara Kasuko Palmeiro^{1 2} Adriane Ceschin Maestri¹ Laura Lúcia Cogo¹ Carolina Hembecker Rauen³ Maria Ester Graaf³ Fernanda Lopes Grein³ Keite da Silva Nogueira^{1 4}

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• Sudden bilateral sensorineural hearing loss in a patient immunocompromised by the human immunodeficiency virus

  Rafael Freire de Castro¹ Ludmilla Emilia Martins Costa¹ Felipe Costa Neiva¹ Fabio Akira Suzuki¹

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Images in Infectious Diseases

• Central nervous system histoplasmosis mimicking tentorium meningioma

  Bruno Niemeyer de Freitas Ribeiro¹ Diogo Goulart Corrêa² Edson Marchiori³

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• A human immunodeficiency virus-positive woman with toxic epidermal necrolysis treated with human intravenous immunoglobulin

  Sandra Maria Barbosa Durães¹ Lara Trindade de Carvalho² Aline Cairo Fassin³

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Letter

• Yellow fever vaccination and neurological complications

  Taciana de Souza Bayão¹ Marli do Carmo Cupertino^{1 2} Andréia Patrícia Gomes¹ Rodrigo Siqueira-Batista^{1 2}

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