Volume 53 – 2020

Editorial

• The value of mitigating epidemic peaks of COVID-19 for more effective public health responses

  Daniel Antunes Maciel Villela¹

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Review Article

• Synanthropic rodents as virus reservoirs and transmitters

  Mara Lucia Gravinatti¹, Carla Meneguin Barbosa², Rodrigo Martins Soares¹, Fábio Gregori¹

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Major Article

• Estimated mortality rate and leading causes of death among individuals with chikungunya in 2016 and 2017 in Brazil

  Livia Carla Vinhal Frutuoso¹, André Ricardo Ribas Freitas^2,3, Luciano Pamplona de Góes Cavalcanti⁴, Elisabeth Carmen Duarte⁵

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• Spatial diffusion of Zika fever epidemics in the Municipality of Salvador-Bahia, Brazil, in 2015-2016: does Zika fever have the same spread pattern as Dengue and Chikungunya fever epidemics?

  Laís Santos Santana¹, Jose Ueleres Braga^2,3

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• Ecology of phlebotomine sand flies in a Brazilian area with recent leishmaniasis transmission (Itaúna, in Minas Gerais state)

  Nathália Cristina Lima Pereira¹, Érika Monteiro Michalsky¹, Fabiana Oliveira Lara-Silva¹, Rosana Silva Lana¹, Adão Júnior Viana de Paula¹, Daniele Marques Pereira¹, Josiane Valadão Lopes¹, Consuelo Latorre Fortes-Dias², Edelberto Santos Dias¹

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• Importance of microenvironment to arbovirus vector distribution in an urban area, São Paulo, Brazil

  Marylene de Brito Arduino¹, Luis Filipe Mucci¹, Luciana Mamede dos Santos², Marilena Fogaça de Souza Soares³

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• Differentiation of Rhodnius neglectus and Rhodnius prolixus (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) by multiple parameters

  Rossana Falcone¹, Aline Rimoldi Ribeiro², Jader de Oliveira¹, Vagner José Mendonça³, Márcia Graminha⁴, João Aristeu da Rosa¹

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• Use of tissue doppler imaging for the early detection of myocardial dysfunction in patients with the indeterminate form of Chagas disease

  Tomás Francisco Cianciulli1 3 ^1,3, María Cristina Saccheri1 ¹, Alonso Papantoniou1 ¹, Ricardo José Méndez1 ¹, Juan Alberto Gagliardi1 3 ^1,3, Nilda Graciela Prado1 2 ^1,2, Adelina Rosa Riarte2 ², Luis Alberto Morita1 ¹, Javier Eduardo Clérici1 ¹, Jorge Alberto Lax1 ¹

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• Cutaneous parasitism in patients with American visceral leishmaniasis in an endemic area

  Carla Riama Lopes de Pádua Moura¹, Carlos Henrique Nery Costa², Rafael de Deus Moura^1,3, Aline Reis Ferro Braga³, Vladimir Costa Silva⁴, Dorcas Lamounier Costa²

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• Increase in the risk of snakebites incidence due to changes in humidity levels: A time series study in four municipalities of the state of Rondônia

  Alex Augusto Ferreira e Ferreira¹, Valdison Pereira dos Reis¹, Charles Nune Boeno¹, Jaina Rodrigues Evangelista¹, Hallison Mota Santana¹, Suzanne Nery Serrath¹, Jéssica Amaral Lopes¹, Cristina Matiele Alves Rego¹,Maria Naiara Macedo Tavares¹, Mauro Valentino Paloschi¹, Neriane Monteiro Nery¹, Alessandra da Silva Dantas³, Moreno Magalhães S. Rodrigues², Juliana Pavan Zuliani1^1,4

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• Susceptibility of Aedes aegypti populations to pyriproxyfen in the Federal District of Brazil

  Bruno Lopes Carvalho¹, Rayssa Nádia Leite Germano², Kátia Maria Leal Braga², Evaldo Rosano Ferreira de Araújo, Douglas de Almeida Rocha¹, Marcos Takashi Obara³

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• Efficacy of the Benznidazole+Posaconazole combination therapy in parasitemia reduction: An experimental murine model of acute Chagas

  Luis Eduardo Echeverría^1,2, Clara Isabel González³, Julio Cesar Mantilla Hernandez³, Martha Lucia Díaz³, Javier Eduardo Nieto⁴, Luis Alberto López-Romero⁵, Julián David Rivera², Edwin Uriel Suárez², Sergio Alejandro Gómez Ochoa¹, Lyda Z. Rojas⁵, Carlos A. Morillo^6,7

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• Phylogenetic Group/Subgroups Distributions, Virulence Factors, and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Escherichia coli Strains from Urinary Tract Infections in Hatay

  Ebru Şebnem Yılmaz¹, Özkan Aslantaş²

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• Demographic and clinical characteristics of pulmonary arterial hypertension caused by schistosomiasis are indistinguishable from other etiologies

  Adriano Assis Mendes¹, Carlos Guilhermo Piscoya Roncal^1,3, Flávio Roberto Azevedo de Oliveira², Eugênio Soares de Albuquerque³, Gustavo Henrique Belarmino Góes⁴, Isabelle Cecília de Vasconcellos Piscoya⁴, Dário Celestino Sobral Filho⁵

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• Association of leptin and leptin receptor polymorphisms with coronary artery disease in a North Chinese Han population

  Haidong Wang¹, Chao Wang², Wenxiu Han³, Chunmei Geng³, Dan Chen³, Bin Wu⁴, Jun Zhang⁵, Changshui Wang³, Pei Jiang³

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• Surveillance of human retroviruses in blood samples from patients with hepatitis B and C in São Paulo, Brazil

  Adele Caterino-de-Araujo¹, Karoline Rodrigues Campos¹, Tamirez Villas Boas Petrucci¹, Rafael Xavier da Silva¹, Marcílio Figueiredo Lemos², Regina Célia Moreira²

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• Relationship between antifungal susceptibility profile and virulence factors in Candida albicans isolated from nail specimens

  Faezeh Mohammadi¹, Zeinab Ghasemi², Behnaz Familsatarian³ Eelham Salehi², Somayeh Sharifynia⁴,Ameneh Barikani⁵,Monirsadat mirzadeh⁶,Mohammad Ali Hosseini ⁷

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• Genotype®MTBDRplus and Xpert®MTB/RIF in the diagnosis of tuberculosis and resistant tuberculosis: cost analysis in a tertiary referral hospital

  Valéria Martins Soares¹, Isabela Neves de Almeida², Maria Cláudia Vater³, Suely Alves³, Lida Jouca de Assis Figueredo², Luciene Scherer⁴, Afrânio Lineu Kritski³, Wânia da Silva Carvalho⁵, Silvana Spindola de Miranda⁶

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• Minimum concentration of Amphotericin B in serum according to the formulation, dose, and daily or prolonged intermittent therapeutic regimen

  Erika Nascimento¹, Gilberto Gambero Gaspar¹, Fernando Crivelenti Vilar¹, Edson Zangiacomi Martinez², Cristiane Masetto de Gaitani³, Roberto Martinez¹

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Short Communication

• Importance of epidemiological surveillance of leprosy: analysis of the occurrence of leprosy in intra-domiciliary contacts in a capital in the Brazilian northeast region

  Luciana Cavalcante Trindade^1,2, Lourdes Conceição Martins¹, Danielle Medeiros Marques³, Micheline da Silveira Mendes⁴, Fernando Luiz Affonso Fonseca², Luiz Alberto Amador Pereira¹

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• First report of Rhodnius montenegrensis (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae) in Amazonas, Brazil

  Fernanda Portela Madeira^1,2, André Luiz Rodrigues Menezes³, Adila Costa de Jesus^1,2, Madson Huilber da Silva Moraes¹, Jader de Oliveira^4,5, João Aristeu da Rosa^4,5, Luís Marcelo Aranha Camargo^1,6,7,8,9, Dionatas Ulises de Oliveira Meneguetti^1,10, Paulo Sérgio Berrnarde^1,2

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• New molecular target for the phylogenetic identification of Leptospira species directly from clinical samples: an alternative gene to 16S rRNA

  Rafael Guillermo Villarreal Julio¹, Piedad Agudelo-Flórez¹, Juan Álvaro López², Ronald Guillermo Peláez Sánchez¹

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• Syphilis among pregnant women in Northeast Brazil from 2008 to 2015: a trend analysis according to sociodemographic and clinical characteristics

  Kathleen Cézar de Mélo¹, Aisla Graciele Galdino dos Santos¹, Alyne Barbosa Brito¹, Saulo Henrique Salgueiro de Aquino¹, Érika Tenório dos Santos Alencar¹, Elena Maria da Silva Duarte¹, Michael Ferreira Machado^1,2, Maria Deysiane Porto de Araújo¹, João Paulo Silva de Paiva^1,2, Rodrigo Feliciano do Carmo³, Thiago Cavalcanti Leal^1,2, Adeilton Gonçalves da Silva Junior², Leonardo Feitosa da Silva^1,2, Divanise Suruagy Correira^4,5, Victor Santana Santos^5,6, Carlos Dornels Freire de Souza^1,2,5

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• Influence of climatic variables on the Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus populations in Mato Grosso, Brazil

  Lucinéia Claudia De Toni Aquino da Cruz¹, Alexander Gonçalves Ferreira Guimarães¹, Emerson Marques de Souza², Raquel da Silva Ferreira⁴, Raphael de Souza Rosa Gomes³, Renata Dezengrini Slhessarenko⁴, Marina Atanaka¹

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• Development of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for diagnosis of human herpesvirus-7 infection

  Ana Lia Pradella Puglia¹, Murilo de Freitas Peigo², Fernando Russo Costa Bomfim³, Ronaldo Luis Thomasini⁴

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• Molecular detection of Paracoccidioides in soil from an urban area of southern Brazil

  Josiara Furtado Mendes¹, Vanice Rodrigues Poester^2,3, Andrea Von Groll², Mário Carlos Araújo Meireles¹, Melissa Orzechowski Xavier^2,3

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• Seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis in pregnant women and its associated factors among hospital and community populations in Lambayeque, Peru

  Heber Silva-Díaz¹, Emma V. Arriaga-Deza¹, Virgilio E. Failoc-Rojas², Yessica R. Alarcón-Flores³, Sara Y. Rojas-Rojas³, Lizzie K. Becerra-Gutiérrez⁴, Katya M. Mera-Villasis⁴, Franklin R. Aguilar-Gamboa⁴, Teresa Silva-García³

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• Absence of mutations associated with resistance to benzimidazole in the beta-tubulin gene of Ascaris suum

  Adalid Palma¹, Gabriela Matamoros^1,2, Denis Escobar¹, Ana Lourdes Sánchez², Gustavo Fontecha¹

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• Evaluation of the larvicidal potential of root and leaf extracts of Saussurea costus (Falc.) Lipsch. against three mosquito vectors:Anopheles stephensi, Aedes aegypti, and Culex quinquefasciatus

  Sofi Imtiyaz Ali¹ Venugopalan Venkatesalu¹

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• Seroprevalence of cytomegalovirus and its coinfection with Epstein-Barr virus in adult residents from Manaus: a population-based study

  Gustavo Magno Baldin Tiguman¹, Laura Beatrice Poll¹, Carlos Eduardo de Castro Alves², Gemilson Soares Pontes², Marcus Tolentino Silva³, Tais Freire Galvao¹

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• In vitro characterization of virulence factors among species of the Candida parapsilosis complex

  Fábio Silvestre Ataides¹, Carolina Rodrigues Costa¹, Andressa Santana Santos¹, Vivianny Aparecida Queiroz Freitas¹, Thaisa Cristina Silva¹, Ana Laura Sene Amâncio Zara¹, Rosália Santos Amorim Jesuino², Maria Rosário Rodrigues Silva¹

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• New report of Eratyrus cuspidatus Stål, 1859 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) in the State of Campeche, Mexico

  Paulino Tamay-Segovia¹ Selene Blum-Domínguez², Ricardo Alejandre-Aguilar³, Luis Alberto Núñez-Oreza⁴, Betty Sarabia-Alcocer⁵, Vicente Jesús Chan-Puc⁶

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• Chemical composition and larvicidal activities of essential oil of Cinnamomum camphora (L.) leaf against Anopheles stephensi

  Yite Xu^1,2, Jie Qin¹, Pan Wang¹, Qiuxia Li¹, Shasha Yu¹, Yanling Zhang³, Ying Wang¹

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• Human platelet antigen-3 polymorphism as a risk factor for rheumatological manifestations in hepatitis C

  Natália Bronzatto Medolago¹, Adriana Camargo Ferrasi¹, Oswaldo Melo da Rocha¹, Maria Inês de Moura Campos Pardini¹, Rejane Maria Tommasini Grotto², Aline Faria Galvani¹, Giovanni Faria Silva¹

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• Characterization of adverse reactions to benznidazole in patients with Chagas disease in the Federal District, Brazil

  Maria Katarine Costa Lucas Gontijo¹, Hilda Maria Benevides da Silva de Arruda^2,3, Elza Ferreira Noronha^2,3, Maria Inês de Toledo^1,3

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• In vivo antileishmanial activity of Annona mucosa extracts

  Janaína Paolucci Sales de Lima¹, Maria Lúcia Belém Pinheiro², Ivan Bezerra Allaman³, Izaltina Silva-Jardim⁴

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• HIV prevalence in recently incarcerated adult males in the Federal District, Brasilia, Brazil

  Rafael Jardim de Moura¹, Gustavo Adolfo Sierra Romero¹

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• Increased capture of Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus, 1762) (Diptera: Culicidae) by removing one ADULTRAP component

  Noemí Silva Ferreira¹, Gilson Correia de Carvalho^2,3,4, Yasmin Gabriela Alves dos Santos⁵, Adriano Figueiredo Monte-Alegre⁶

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• Hepatitis B: Prevalence and occult infection in HIV-infected patients

  Samira Julien Calux¹, Vanessa Cristina Martins Silva¹, Adriana Parise Compri¹, Marcílio Figueiredo Lemos¹, Ana Paula de Torres Santos², Isabel Takano Oba¹, Maria Cássia J. Mendes-Correa³, Regina Célia Moreira¹

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• Exposure to Leishmania spp. infection and Lutzomyia spp. in individuals living in an area endemic for visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil

  Edenilson Borges de Oliveira Sobrinho¹, Lais Rigon¹, Yuri Tani Utsunomiya³, Thaise Yumie Tomokane⁴, Márcia Dalastra Laurenti⁴, Mary Marcondes⁵

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• The deadliest snake according to ethnobiological perception of the population of the Alto Juruá region, western Brazilian Amazonia

  Jessyca Lima da Silva^1,2, Ageane Mota da Siva^3,4, Gardênia Lima Gurgel do Amaral¹, Givanildo Pereira Ortega^1,4, Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro^5,6, Paulo Sérgio Bernarde¹

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• Prevalence of coinfections in women living with human immunodeficiency virus in Northeast Brazil

  Brenda Evelin Barreto da Silva¹, Victor Santana Santos², Ingrid Emmily Reis Santos³, Marcus Vinicius de Aragão Batista⁴, Leila Luiza Conceição Gonçalves^1,3, Lígia Mara Dolce de Lemos^1,3

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• Gonotrophic discordance in Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae) in the city of São Paulo, Brazil

  Sabrina Ribeiro Santana¹, Pâmela dos Santos Andrade¹, Paulo Roberto Urbinatti^1,2, Rosa Maria Marques de Sá Almeida^1,2, Tamara Nunes Lima-Camara^1,2

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• Social determinants of mortality due to visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil (2001-2015): an ecological study

  Bruno Eduardo Bastos Rolim Nunes¹, Thiago Cavalcanti Leal¹, João Paulo Silva de Paiva¹, Leonardo Feitosa da Silva¹, Rodrigo Feliciano do Carmo², Michael Ferreira Machado¹, Maria Deysiane Porto de Araújo¹, Victor Santana Santos³, Carlos Dornels Freire de Souza¹

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• Post-exposure human rabies prophylaxis: spatial patterns of inadequate procedures in Ceará – Brazil, 2007 to 2015

  Kellyn Kessiene de Sousa Cavalcante¹, Caroline Mary Gurgel Dias Florêncio¹,Jarier de Oliveira Moreno¹, Francisco Gustavo Silveira Correia¹, Carlos Henrique Alencar¹

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• The austral-most record of the genus Haemagogus Williston (Diptera: Culicidae)

  Gisella Obholz¹, Fernando Diez^1,2, Germán San Blas^1,2, Gustavo Rossi³

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• Epidemiological aspects and spatial distribution of visceral leishmaniasis in Governador Valadares, Brazil, between 2008 and 2012

  Aimara da Costa Pinheiro^1,3, Alexandre Sylvio Vieira da Costa², Rodrigo Santos de Oliveira³, Maria Letícia Costa Reis⁴

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• Association of adverse drug reaction to anti-tuberculosis medication with quality of life in patients in a tertiary referral hospital

  Ronise Malaquias Carlos Valadares^1,2, Wânia da Silva Carvalho³, Silvana Spíndola de Miranda¹

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• Human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome epidemic in adolescents from a Brazilian metropolis (1978-2017)

  Stella Regina Taquette¹, Nádia Cristina Pinheiro Rodrigues²

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• Evidence of a sylvatic enzootic cycle of Leishmania infantum in the State of Amapá, Brazil

  Eduardo Stramandinoli Moreno^1,2,3, Luiz Alberto Sabioni⁴, Marina Maria Moraes de Seixas⁵, Job Alves de Souza Filho⁶, Andreza Pain Marcelino⁶, Paloma Helena Fernandes Shimabukuro³

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• Seroprevalence of arenavirus and hantavirus in indigenous populations from the Caribbean, Colombia

  Amada Bolaños¹, Carolina Montoya-Ruiz^2,3, Juan Camilo Perez-Peréz², Juan David Rodas², Salim Mattar¹

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• Influenza Sentinel Surveillance and Severe Acute Respiratory Infection in a Reference Hospital in Southern Brazil

  Heloisa Zimmerman Faggion¹, Jaqueline Leotte¹, Hygor Trombetta¹, Luciane Aparecida Pereira², Bruna Amaral Lapinski², Meri Bordignon Nogueira², Luine Rosele Vidal², Bernardo Machado Almeida³, Ricardo Rasmussen Petterle⁴, Sonia Mara Raboni^1,2

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• Fragment detection of Coleopteran and Triatomine insects in experimentally contaminated acai pulp and sugarcane juice

  Elaine Cristina de Mattos¹, Maria Aparecida Moraes Marciano², Vilma dos Santos Menezes Gaiotto Daros¹, Cristiane Castro Faccini³, Angela Maria Lourenço³, Vera Lucia Pereira-Chioccola⁴

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• Investigation of carbapenemases and aminoglycoside modifying enzymes of Acinetobacter baumannii isolates recovered from patients admitted to intensive care units in a tertiary-care hospital in Brazil

  Milena Polotto^1,2, Tiago Casella², Fernanda Modesto Tolentino^1,2, Mayra Mioto Mataruco³, Naiady Konno Madela Porto², Mirella Fontana Batista Binhardi¹, Mara Corrêa Lelles Nogueira²

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• Spatiotemporal distribution of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome incidence in Brazil between 2012 and 2016

  Edson Zangiacomi Martinez¹, Miriane Lucindo Zucoloto¹, Guilherme Galdino², Altacílio Aparecido Nunes¹, Elisangela Aparecida da Silva Lizzi³

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• Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the ICU: prevalence, resistance profile, and antimicrobial consumption

  Ághata Cardoso da Silva Ribeiro¹, Márcia Terezinha Lonardoni Crozatti¹, Adilson Aderito da Silva², Rodrigo Spineli Macedo³, Antonia Maria de Oliveira Machado⁴, Antonio Távora de Albuquerque Silva¹

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• Injuries caused by fish to fishermen in the Vale do Alto Juruá, Western Brazilian Amazon

  Tamires Nascimento da Costa^1,2, Tiago Ricardo Fernandes Jacó², André Luis da Silva Casas², Paulo Sérgio Bernarde³

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Case Report

• Are SARS-CoV-2 reinfection and Covid-19 recurrence possible? a case report from Brazil

  Lívia Pimenta Bonifácio[1], Ana Paula Sulino Pereira[1], Daniel Cardoso de Almeida e Araújo[2], Viviane da Mata Pasti Balbão[2], Benedito Antônio Lopes da Fonseca[1], Afonso Dinis Costa Passos[1],[3] and Fernando Bellissimo-Rodrigues[1],[3]

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• Rabies in Callithrix sp. in the urban area of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  Flavio Fernando Batista Moutinho^1,2, Marcela Garcia Araújo de Andrade³, Viviane Moura Azevedo Nunes², Eduardo Cárdenas Nogueira Rubião⁴, Helena Beatriz de Carvalho Ruthner Batista⁵, Phyllis Catharina Romijn⁶, Carlos Alberto Cattaneo⁴, Fernando Guilherme de Oliveira³, Rafael de Novaes Oliveira⁵, Nairedisa Marcanth², Leilane Gorga Gaspar Ruas Silvestre⁵, Fábio Villas Boas Borges², Sávio Freire Bruno¹

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• First report of scorpionism caused by Tityus serrulatus, described by Lutz and Mello, 1922 (Scorpiones, Buthidae), a species non-native to the state of Pará, Brazilian Amazon

  Gabriela Góes Costa¹, Luana de Fátima Monteiro Serejo¹, Johne de Souza Coelho², Denise Maria Cândido³, Maria Apolônia da Costa Gadelha¹, Pedro Pereira de Oliveira Pardal^1,2

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• Tegumentary leishmaniasis mimicking visceralization in a cirrhotic patient: atypical cutaneous lesions and local immunological features

  Sebastian Vernal¹, Yuri Casal², Lucas T. Vieira¹, Valdir S. Amato¹, María Irma S. Duarte², Ana Catharina S.S. Nastri¹

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• Postpartum histoplasmosis in an HIV-negative woman: a case report and phylogenetic characterization by internal transcribed spacer region analysis

  Lisandra Serra Damasceno¹, Antônio Mauro Barros Almeida Júnior², Bárbara de Oliveira Aguiar³, Mauro de Medeiros Muniz⁴, Marcos de Abreu Almeida⁴, Rosely Maria Zancopé-Oliveira⁴, Terezinha do Menino Jesus Silva Leitão¹

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• Urogenital tuberculosis in a patient with end-stage renal disease

  André Patrício Ferreira de Almeida¹, Dina Fabrício da Silva2 , Karla Cristina Silva Petruccelli³, Juliana da Costa Matos², Rodrigo Xavier Moreira³, Marcelo Cordeiro-Santos^1,2

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• Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) associated with mosquito-borne diseases: Chikungunya virus X yellow fever immunization

  Karolyna Carvalho¹, Ana Luiza Biancardi¹, Giovanna Provenzano¹, Haroldo Moraes Jr¹

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• Imported hepatopulmonary echinococcosis: first report of Echinococcus granulosus sensu stricto (G1) in Bolivia

  Daniel Jarovsky¹, Clarissa Rodrigues da Silva Brito¹, Danieli Urach Monteiro², Maria Isabel de Azevedo³, Sônia de Avila Botton^2,4, Marcelo Jenné Mimica¹, Mariana Volpe Arnoni⁵, Marco Aurélio Palazzi Sáfadi¹, Eitan Naaman Berezin¹, Humberto Salgado Filho⁶, Flavia Jacqueline Almeida¹, Mário Luiz de la Rue²

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• de novo Histoid leprosy: an expatriate case recently diagnosed in Johannesburg

  Margareth Ann Olivier¹, Deepak Modi¹, Ozge Gunduz¹

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• A rare cause of vertebral osteomyelitis: the first case report of rat-bite fever in Portugal

  Eduarda Pena¹, Sofia Jordão¹, Maria João Simões², Mónica Oleastro², Isabel Neves¹

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Images in Infectious Diseases

• Chest radiography and computed tomography findings from a Brazilian patient with COVID-19 pneumonia

  Bruno Lima Moreira¹, Marcos Pama D’Almeida Brotto^1,2, Edson Marchiori³

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• Tuberculous spondylodiscitis in abscess form

  Handan Alay¹, Elif Gözgeç²

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• Pedro Pons’ sign of brucellar spondylitis

  Na Wu¹, Yi Zhang¹, Yong-Sheng Yu¹

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• Renal Fungal Balls – The Importance of Radiological Findings

  Vanessa Barcelos¹, Ana Carolina Ferreira¹

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• Neurosyphilis vasculitis manifesting as ischemic stroke

  Laisson de Moura Feitoza¹, Raquel Silveira Bello Stucchi², Fabiano Reis¹

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• Giant Hydatid Cysts of the Lung and Liver

  Recep Tekin¹, Rojbin Ceylan Tekin², Alper Avcı³

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• Leprosy reactions: Earlier diagnosis leads to more effective treatment

  Pugazhenthan Thangaraju¹, Sajitha venkatesan²

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• A Very Rare Case of Brucellosis-Related Tubo-ovarian Abscess

  Handan Alay¹, Fatma Kesmez Can¹, Emsal Pınar Topdağı Yılmaz²

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• Laryngotracheobronchial papillomatosis: an uncommon cause of recurrent respiratory infection

  Bruno Niemeyer de Freitas Ribeiro¹, Edson Marchiori²

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• Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii isolate with Unusual Morphology

  Anil Kumar¹, Malini Eapen², Rosamma Philip³

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• Vertebral cryptococcosis: An uncommon cause of a paravertebral mass

  Igor Biscotto¹, Miriam Menna Barreto¹, Rosana Souza Rodrigues^1,2, Edson Marchiori¹

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• Erythema at the bacillus Calmette-Guerin scar after influenza vaccination

  Yanin Chavarri-Guerra¹, Enrique Soto-Perez-de-Celis¹

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• Surgical Treatment of Cutaneous Anthrax

  Changsong Zhao¹, Qiang Zhang¹, Yao Zhang¹

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Letter

• Diagnostic confusion between seabather’s eruption as well as dermatophytosis and parasitic infestations

  André Luiz Rossetto¹, Catarina Cé Bella Cruz¹, Isabella Cruz Cesário Pereira¹, Juliana Arnauts Nunes¹, Mariana Medeiros Martins¹, Théo Nicolacópulos¹, Ana Letícia Rossetto², Vidal Haddad Junior³

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• Driving forces for strengthening the surveillance of Chagas disease in the Brazilian Amazon by “training the eyes” of malaria microscopists

  Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro^1,2, Maria das Graças Vale Barbosa^1,2, Jorge Augusto de Oliveira Guerra^1,2, Gisely Cardoso de Melo^1,2, Layla Rowena Albuquerque Barbosa^1,2, Kim Vinicius Amaral Machado^1,2, Rebeca Linhares de Abreu Netto¹, Marcus Vinicius Guimarães de Lacerda^1,2,3

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• Does the Plague Still Threaten Us?

  Alzira Maria Paiva de Almeida¹, Marise Sobreira¹, Nilma Cintra Leal¹, Celso Tavares²

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• Reflections on vector control in Brazil

  Eduardo Dias Wermelinger¹

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• Driving forces for COVID-19 clinical trials using chloroquine: the need to choose the right research questions and outcomes

  Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro^1,2, Jose Diego Brito-Sousa^1,2, Djane Baía-da-Silva^1,2, Gisely Cardoso de Melo^1,2, André Machado Siqueira³, Fernando Val^1,2, Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro⁴, Marcus Vinicius Guimarães Lacerda^1,5

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Authors Reply

• Anopheles control is considerably more complicated than Aedes control

  Djane Clarys Baia-da-Silva^1,2, Gisely Cardoso de Melo^1,2, Paulo Pimenta^1,2,3, Marcus Vinícius Guimarães de Lacerda^1,2,4, Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro^1,2

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Erratum

• Erratum

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Obituary

• Giovanni Gazzinelli (★1927 †2020)

  Walderez O. Dutra¹

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Technical Report

• COVID-19 in Brazil: advantages of a socialized unified health system and preparation to contain cases

  Julio Croda^[1,2,3]*, Wanderson Kleber de Oliveira^[4], Rodrigo Lins Frutuoso^[5], Luiz Henrique Mandetta^[6], Djane Clarys Baia-da-Silva^[7,8], José Diego Brito-Sousa^[7,8], Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro^[7,8], Marcus Vinícius Guimarães Lacerda^[7,8,9]

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