Volume 57 – 2024

Editorial

• New parameter for QRS complex low voltage in chagasic cardiomyopathy: the ADOC index

  Barbosa, Ana Gabriela Miranda Silva Júnior, José Antonio da Nascimento, Ellany Gurgel Cosme do Góes, Mariana de Moura Santos Filho, Antônio Almeida dos Melo, Rodrigo Alves de Martins, Remerson Russel Fernandes, Thales Allyrio Araújo de Medeiros Andrade, Micássio Fernandes de Andrade, Cléber de Mesquita

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• Advancements in Viral Genomics: Gated Recurrent Unit Modeling of SARS-CoV-2, SARS, MERS, and Ebola viruses

  Devaraj, Abhishak Raj Marianthiran, Victor Jose

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• Donor-derived Cryptococcus gattii complex infection after liver transplantation

  Carneiro, Bruno Hassunuma Breda, Giovanni Luis Cognialli, Regielly Caroline Raimundo Santos, Germana Davila dos Vicente, Vania Aparecida Perondi, Eduardo Gnoatto França, João Cesar Beenke Queiroz-Telles, Flávio

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• Rare skin manifestation of tularemia: Sweet syndrome

  Karaşahin, Ömer

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• Incidentally Detected Cardiac Hydatid Cyst: A Rare Case Report

  Durmaz, Fatma Kurt, Ferhat Özgökçe, Mesut

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• Paracoccidioidomycosis mimicking mycetoma

  Coimbra, Beatriz Zimermano Lourenço, Bianca Tazinafi Tiezzi, Marcelo Guimarães Carapeba, Murilo de Oliveira Lima Abreu, Marilda Aparecida Milanez Morgado de

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• Paracoccidioidomycosis of the testis

  Khouri, Thiago Elias Ferrari Simões, Gabriel Chahade Sibanto Fregonesi, Adriano

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• The big and small ball sign: Ultraviolet-Induced Fluorescence Dermoscopy for the diagnosis of scabies

  Arriel, Kaique Jabour, Thaís Barros Felippe Rubinho, Rafael Yanase, Thais Kohatsu Rytenband, Fernanda

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• Cryptococcus neoformans in the sputum: a noninvasive diagnostic method

  Souza, Simone Rachid de Corrêa, Diogo Goulart

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• Atypical manifestation of leprosy in a pediatric patient

  Tavares, Gabriel Castro

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• Emphysematous osteomyelitis

  Castro, Paula Barreto, Miriam Menna Marchiori, Edson Rodrigues, Rosana Souza

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• Acral Exogenous Cutaneous Pigmentation Caused by Contact with a Darkling Beetle (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in a Young Patient in the state of Amazonas

  Freire, Iara de Melo Oliveira, Carolina Souza de Souza, Marcella Caldeira Camisasca Figueiras, Virgínia Vilasboas Santos, Luciana Mendes dos

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• Diagnosis of larval migration using imaging tests

  Santos, Priscilla Filippo Alvim de Minas Rodrigues, Felipe Tavares Hastenreiter, Leticia

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• Catastrophic Floods in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: The Need for Public Health Responses to Potential Infectious Disease Outbreaks

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• The use of meta-analysis in infectious disease surveillance: Is it a relevant tool?

  Antonio Toledo Jr

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Review Article

• West Nile virus infections are here! Are we prepared to face another flavivirus epidemic?

  Luiza Antunes de Castro-Jorge1 * Márcio Junio Lima Siconelli1 * Beatriz dos Santos Ribeiro1 Flávia Masson de Moraes1 Jonathan Ballico de Moraes1 Mayara Rovariz Agostinho1 Taline Monteiro Klein1 Vitor Gonçalves Floriano1 Benedito Antônio Lopes da Fonseca1

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• Current vector control challenges in the fight against malaria in Brazil

  Djane Clarys Baia-da-Silva1 2 José Diego Brito-Sousa1 2 Sheila Rodrigues Rodovalho1 2 3 Cassio Peterka1 2 4 Gilberto Moresco4 Oscar Martín Mesones Lapouble1 2 3 Gisely Cardoso de Melo1 2 Vanderson de Souza Sampaio1 2 5 Maria das Graças Costa Alecrim1 2 Paulo Pimenta1 2 6 José Bento Pereira Lima7 Marcus Vinícius Guimarães de Lacerda1 2 8 Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro1 2

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• Hepatitis Delta Prevalence in South America: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

  Cristiane Faria de Oliveira Scarponi1 Raquel Duarte Nunes da Silva1 Job Alves de Souza Filho1 Maria Regina Lage Guerra1 Marco Antônio Ferreira Pedrosa2 Marcos Paulo Gomes Mol3

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Major Article

• β-Glucan of Candida albicans Cell Wall Extract Inhibits Salmonella Typhimurium Colonization by Potentiating Cellular Immunity (CD8 + and CD4 + T Cells)

  Sri Winarsih, Tomson Kosasih, Marvin Anthony Putera, Nayla Rahmadhiani, Erlien Lindawati Poernomo, Kresna Septiandy Runtuk, Melissa Valensia Oswari

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• Climatic variables associated with dengue incidence in a city of the Western Brazilian Amazon region

  Juliana Lúcia Duarte, Fredi Alexander Diaz-Quijano, Antônio Carlos Batista, Leandro Luiz Giatti

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• Association of serum levels of C-reactive protein with CRP-717 T/C polymorphism and viremia in HCV and HBV carriers

  Tuane Carolina Ferreira Moura, Ednelza da Silva Graça Amoras, Maria Alice Freitas Queiroz, Simone Regina Souza da Silva Conde, Alan Barroso Araújo Grisólia, Ricardo Ishak, Antonio Carlos Rosário Vallinoto

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• Hansen’s disease deformities in a high risk area in Mozambique: A case study

  Abdoulaye Marega1 Paulo das Neves Pires1 Jaibo Mucufo1 Artur Muloliwa2

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• Agreement between upper endoscopy and esophagography in the diagnosis of megaesophagus in Chagas disease

  Fernando de Barros1 João Carlos de Almeida Soares1 Fernando Prado de Barros1 Luiz Henrique Conde Sangenis1 Gilberto Marcelo Sperandio da Silva1 Ana Beatriz Monteiro Fonseca2 Alejandro Marcel Hasslocher-Moreno1 Andrea Silvestre de Sousa1 Roberto Magalhães Saraiva1 Mauro Felippe Felix Mediano1 3

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• Superimposing a high-fat diet on Schistosoma mansoni infection affects renin-angiotensin system components in the mouse kidney

  Danielle Guedes Dantas Lira1 2 Danielly Cantarelli de Oliveira2 Fábio André Brayner2 3 André de Lima Aires2 4 Mônica Camelo Pessoa A. Albuquerque2 4 Leucio Duarte Vieira5 Célia Maria Machado Barbosa de Castro1 2 Ana Durce Paixão5

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• ERG11 gene polymorphisms and susceptibility to fluconazole in Candida isolates from diabetic and kidney transplant patients

  Volmir Pitt Benedetti1 2 Daiani Cristina Savi3 Rodrigo Aluizio3 Douglas Adamoski3 Vanessa Kava3 Lygia Vitória Galli-Terasawa3 Chirlei Glienke2 3

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• Ecology of phlebotomine sand flies in an area of leishmaniasis occurrence in the Xakriabá Indigenous Reserve, Minas Gerais, Brazil

  André Tetzl Costa1 Edelberto Santos Dias2 Andreza Geisiane Maia Souza2 Fabiana de Oliveira Lara e Silva2 George Luiz Lins Machado-Coelho1 3

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• IgG1 and IgG4 antibodies against Core and NS3 antigens of hepatitis C virus

  Vanessa Costa dos Santos1 Maria Isabel Schinoni2 Isabela Silva de Oliveira3 Maria Luiza Sousa Atta3 Ajax Mercês Atta3

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• A randomized, open-label clinical trial comparing the long-term effects of miltefosine and meglumine antimoniate for mucosal leishmaniasis

  Raimunda Nonata Ribeiro Sampaio1 3 5 Juliana Saboia Fontenele e Silva2 Carmen Dea Ribeiro de Paula3 Cláudia Porto3 Jorgeth de Oliveira Carneiro da Motta3 Ledice Inacia de Araujo Pereira4 Sofia Sales Martins5 Daniel Holanda Barroso5 Gustavo Subtil Magalhães Freire3 Ciro Martins Gomes1 3

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• Asymptomatic Plasmodium infection in a residual malaria transmission area in the Atlantic Forest region: Implications for elimination

  Renata Bortolasse Miguel1 2 Hermano Gomes Albuquerque1 2 Maria Carmen Arroyo Sanchez3 José Rodrigues Coura1 2 Simone da Silva Santos1 Sidnei da Silva4 Carlos José de Carvalho Moreira1 Martha Cecilia Suárez-Mutis1 2

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• Pain and Quality of Life in Human T-cell Lymphotropic Virus Type 1-Associated Myelopathy or Tropical Spastic Paraparesis After Home-Based Exercise Protocol: A Randomized Clinical Trial

  Maíra Carvalho Macêdo Renata de Sousa Mota1 2 Naiane Araújo Patrício1 Abrahão Fontes Baptista1 3 Antônio de Souza Andrade Filho4 Katia Nunes Sá1 5

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• Comparative assessment of the replication efficiency of dengue, yellow fever, and chikungunya arboviruses in some insect and mammalian cell lines

  Nidya Alexandra Segura Guerrero

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• Factors associated with the presence of triatomines in rural areas of south Argentine Chaco

  Liliana Crocco, Julieta Nattero, Ana López, Miriam Cardozo, Carola Soria, Valeria Ortiz, Claudia S. Rodriguez

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• Emergence of chikungunya and Zika in a municipality endemic to dengue, Santa Luzia, MG, Brazil, 2015-2017

  Farley Liliana Romero Vega¹ Juliana Maria Trindade Bezerra² Rodrigo Fabiano de Carmo Said³ Aloysio Nogueira da Gama Neto⁴ Emanuela Cardoso Cotrim⁴ Dora Mendez⁵ Frederico Figueiredo Amâncio⁶ Mariângela Carneiro^{1 2}

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• Oral microbiota and their antibiotic susceptibility in free-living monkeys in Goiás State, Brazil: Repercussions for injuries in humans

  Elisângela de Albuquerque Sobreira¹ Carla Afonso da Silva Bitencout Braga² Sheila Canavese Rahal³ Evandro Leão Ribeiro³ Lara Stefânia Netto de Oliveira Leão Vasconcelos⁴ Lilian Carla Carneiro⁴ Carlos Roberto Teixeira³ Camila Contin Diniz de Almeida⁴ Vidal Haddad Júnior⁵

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• Influence of exposure and vertical transmission of HIV-1 on the neuropsychomotor development in children

  Mônica Custódia do Couto Abreu Pamplona^{1 2} Emanuele Cordeiro Chaves³ Alôma Cecília Carvalho¹ Rúdrissa do Couto Abreu Pamplona⁴ Antonio Carlos Rosário Vallinoto^{2 5} Maria Alice Freitas Queiroz^{2 5} Sandra Souza Lima^{2 5} Ricardo Ishak^{2 5}

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• Characteristics of basic health units and detection of tuberculosis cases

  Marcia Ramos Costa¹ Rejane Christine de Sousa Queiroz¹ Thiago Augusto Hernandes Rocha² Núbia Cristina Da Silva³ João Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci⁴ Aline Sampieri Tonello¹ Elaine Thumé⁵ Maria Nilza Lima Medeiros⁶ Maria dos Remédios Freitas Carvalho Branco⁷ Maria Elza Lima Sousa⁸ Erika Bárbara Abreu Fonseca Thomaz¹ Luiz Augusto Facchini⁹

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Short Communication

• Clinical and epidemiology evaluation of Aids-infected patients hospitalized between 2011 and 2016 in the Santos region of Brazil

  Roberto Focaccia1 Maria Luiza Alessi Ribeiro2 Ana Carolina Carvalho Cossich2 Raphael França Lacerda de Andrade2 Karla Fabiana Begosso Sampaio da Fonseca Carbonari2 Gabriela Amim Kallouf2 Regiane Maria Rosa Vieira2 João Pedro Lima Gemha2 Aline Andruskevicius de Castro2 Josiani Picin Correa de Oliveira2 Flávio David Haddad Filho2 Juliana Rocha Pinto Dias2 Susiele Thaís Luz de Melo2 Beatriz Bandini Gonçalves2 Camila Salles Lopes2 Fernanda Franceschi2 Larissa Attina de Brito2 Nathalia Jacob dos Santos Bittar3 Sergio Feijoó3 Gelvana Barreto Reis3

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• Use of pharmaceutical nanotechnology for the treatment of leishmaniasis

  Carine Santana Ferreira Marques1 2 Jorge Barreto Machado Júnior1 2 Lucas Rannier de Melo Andrade1 2 Luciana Nalone Andrade1 2 André Luis Souza dos Santos3 Maria do Socorro Pires e Cruz4 Marco Chaud5 Alini Tinoco Fricks1 2 Patrícia Severino1 2

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• Increase in the diagnosis of mycobacteremia after the implementation of semi-automated blood culture at a Brazilian public health laboratory

  Adelaide Fernandes Costa1 Sueli Lemes de Ávila Alves2 Ivanísio Gomes de Santana2 Disley Xavier Rodrigues Dias2 Edna Joana Claudio Manrique2 3

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• Adverse events in patients with leprosy on treatment with thalidomide

  Paula Lana de Miranda Drummond1 2 Roberta Márcia Marques dos Santos1 Gabriela Oliveira Carvalho2 Cristiane Aparecida Menezes de Pádua2

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• Natural history of experimental arthritis induced by Paracoccidioides brasiliensis in wistar rats

  Eduardo Alexandre Loth1 Vanessa Cecatto1 Rodrigo Daniel Genske2 Maricília Silva Costa2 Rinaldo Ferreira Gandra1 Cleverson Marcelo Pilatti2

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• Morphological differentiation between seven Brazilian populations of Haemagogus capricornii and Hg. janthinomys (Diptera: Culicidae) using geometric morphometry of the wings

  Shayenne Olsson Freitas Silva1 2 * Ana Laura Carbajal de la Fuente3 * Cecilia Ferreira de Mello1 4 Jeronimo Alencar1

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• Serological status of childbearing-aged women for Toxoplasma gondii and cytomegalovirus in northern Kosovo and Metohija

  Jelena Aritonovic Pribakovic1 Natasa Katanic1 Tatjana Radevic1 Mirjana Stojanovic Tasic1 Mirjana Kostic1 Boban Stolic1 Aleksandra Radulovic2 Verica Minic3 Ksenija Bojovic4 Radoslav Katanic1

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• Performance of an immuno-rapid malaria Pf/Pv rapid diagnostic test for malaria diagnosis in the Western Brazilian Amazon

  Monica Regina Farias Costa1 Ana Luísa Rubert Barcelos2 Maria Angélica de Camargo2 Gisely Cardoso de Melo1 3 Anne Cristine Almeida1 3 Allyson Guimarães da Costa1 3 Jose Diego de Brito Sousa1 3 Marly Marques de Melo1 3 Maria das Graças Costa Alecrim1 3 Marcus Vinicius Guimarães de Lacerda1 2 4 Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro1 3

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• Popular names for bushmaster (Lachesis muta) and lancehead (Bothrops atrox) snakes in the Alto Juruá region: repercussions for clinical-epidemiological diagnosis and surveillance

  Ageane Mota da Siva1 2 Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro3 4 Paulo Sérgio Bernarde2 5

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• Prevalence of urodynamic changes with risk for upper urinary tract damage in neuroschistosomiasis patients

  Carlos Antonio de Souza1 Fernanda Camila F.S Calisto2 Carlos Antonio de Souza Filho1 Larissa Clara Lopes de Souza2 Luis Gustavo Morato de Toledo4 Antonio Pedro Flores Auge3

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• Anti-Candida and anti-quorum sensing activity of airborne microorganisms detected by a rapid method

  Andria Lopes Cruz1 Fabiana Silva de Souza1 Maxwel Adriano Abegg1 2

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• Biofilm formation by blood isolates of Candida parapsilosis sensu stricto in the presence of a hyperglycidic solution at comparable concentrations of total parenteral nutrition

  Thalita Caroline Herek1 Vinícius Ribeiro Menegazzo2 Mayara Baptistucci Ogaki1 Hugo Felix Perini1 Luciana Furlaneto Maia3 Marcia Cristina Furlaneto1

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• Stress conditions in the host induce persister cells and influence biofilm formation by Staphylococcus epidermidis RP62A

  Rafael Ovando Fraiha, Ana Paula Ramos Pereira, Eliana da Costa Alvarenga Brito, Clayton Luiz Borges, Ana Flávia Alves Parente, Renata Trentin Perdomo, Maria Ligia Rodrigues Macedo, Simone Schneider Weber

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• Temporal and spatial distribution of American tegumentary leishmaniasis in north Paraná: 2010-2015

  Mariana Barbosa Detoni, Débora Messagi Lima, Thaïs Peron da Silva, Lais Fernanda Machado, Fernanda Tomiotto-Pellissier, Idessania Nazareth Costa, Wander Rogério Pavanelli, Francisco José de Abreu Oliveira, Luiz Antonio Custódio, Ivete Conchon-Costa, Francine Nesello Melanda

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• TGF-β1 polymorphism in American tegumentary leishmaniasis in a Southern Brazilian populatio

  Fabiane Vieira Berg Shehadeh, Rosiane Ribeiro dos Santos, Laiane Alzira Denski da Silva, Waldir Veríssimo da Silva Júnior, Rejane Ribas-Silva, Adriana Danmvolf Ribas, Thaís Gomes Verzignassi Silveira, Sueli Donizete Borelli, Sandra Mara Alessi Aristides

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• Congenital Chagas disease: alert of research negligence

  Nayra Dias, Bruna de Carvalho, Nadjar Nitz, Luciana Hagström, Tamires Vital, Mariana Hecht

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• Use of Kisser glycerol gelatin to prepare microscope slides of Phlebotomine sandflies (Diptera: Psychodidae)

  Vanusa Gonçalves Holanda, Diogo Brunno e Silva Barbosa, Leudimar Aires Pereira, Maria Regiane Araujo Soares

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• Circulation of spotted fever group rickettsiae among dogs seropositive for Leishmania spp. in an urban area of Brazil

  Sabrina Destri Emmerick Campos, Niara Vanat Nadal, Helena Keiko Toma, Adilson Benedito de Almeida, Matheus Dias Cordeiro, Adivaldo Henrique da Fonseca, Fabiano Borges Figueiredo, Maurício Afonso Verícimo, Nathalie Costa da Cunha, Nádia Regina Pereira Almosny

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• Plasmodium falciparum malarial parasites from Brazil lack artemisinin resistance-associated mutations in the kelch13 gene

  Francesca Chapadense, Ricardo Luiz Dantas Machado, Ana Maria Revorêdo da Silva Ventura, André Áreas, Renato Beilner Machado, Giselle Rachid Viana, Mariano Gustavo Zalis, Ana Maria de Castro, Pedro Cravo

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• Reemerging diseases in Brazil: sociodemographic and epidemiological characteristics of syphilis and its under-reporting

  Artênio José Ísper Garbin, Ronald Jefferson Martins, Naiana de Melo Belila, Sandra Margareth Exaltação, Cléa Adas Saliba Garbin

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• New record and extended geographical distribution of Aedes fluviatilis (Lutz, 1904) in Ceará, northeastern Brazil

  Estelita Lima Cândido, Ulisses Mariano da Silva, Luciano Pamplona de Góes Cavalcanti

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• Rapid Detection of Sepsis using CESDA: the Caenorhabditis elegans Sepsis Detection Assay

  Ling Fei Tee1 Toh Leong Tan2 Hui-min Neoh1 Rahman Jamal1

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• The role of pregnant women with rash in the Zika virus sentinel surveillance

  Renata Soares Martins1 Michele Higa Fróes1 Leila del Castillo Saad1 Satiro Márcio Ignácio Junior1 Walkiria Delnero Almeida Prado1 Ernesto Machado Figueiredo1 Renato Pereira de Souza2 Juliana Silva Nogueira2 Adriana Yurika Maeda2 Helena Keico Sato1 Regiane Cardoso de Paula1 Gizelda Katz1

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• Vaccination against influenza in elderly people: factors associated with acceptance and refusal of the vaccine

  Cristiano José Mendes Pinto1 Everton Henrique Ramos Pereira1 Camila Machado Teodoro1 Rute Angelica Becari1 Viviane Gomes de Assis1 Josiane Cristina Ferrari2 Eduardo Luiz Hoehne1

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• Syphilis in female sex workers: an epidemiological study of the highway system of the state of Pará, northern Brazil

  Natalia dos Santos Cavalcante1 Heverton Rodrigo Reis de Lima1 Denise Ferreira Tabosa1 Elisa do Socorro Sousa Barbosa1 Nayara Priscila da Silva Costa1 Luana Mota da Costa1 2 Paula Cristina Rodrigues Frade2 3 Luisa Caricio Martins2 4 Gláucia Caroline Silva-Oliveira1 Aldemir Branco de Oliveira-Filho1 2

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• Quality of life of people with HIV/AIDS – the influence of social determinants and disease-related factors

  Simone Miyada1 Artenio Jose Isper Garbin1 Bruno Wakayama1 Tania Adas Saliba1 Clea Adas Saliba Garbin1

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• Extractivism of palm tree fruits: A risky activity because of snakebites in the state of Acre, Western Brazilian Amazon

  Ageane Mota da Silva1 2 Jacqueline Sachett3 4 Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro3 5 Paulo Sérgio Bernarde6

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• Prevalence of HIV and associated factors among visceral leishmaniasis cases in an endemic area of Northeast Brazil

  Gardenia de Oliveira Santos1 Nathalia Priscila Sales de Jesus1 Juliana Vasconcelos Cerqueira-Braz2 Victor Santana Santos3 Ligia Mara Dolce de Lemos1

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• First report of Panstrongylus lignarius (Walker, 1873) (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) in the State of Acre, Brazil

  Mariane Albuquerque Lima Ribeiro1 2 Gabriela Vieira de Souza Castro1 2 Janis Lunier de Souza3 Acigelda da Silva Cardoso3 Fernanda Portela Madeira1 2 Luis Marcelo Aranha Camargo2 4 5 6 7 Dionatas Ulises de Oliveira Meneguetti2 8 9 10

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• IgE antibodies from schistosomiasis patients to recognize epitopes in potato apyrase

  Michélia Antônia do Nascimento Gusmão1 Nayara Braga Emídio1 Danielle Gomes Marconato1 Priscila Silva Grijó Farani1 Luiz Felipe Maniezzi1 Paulo Marcos Zech Coelho2 Rodrigo Correa Oliveira2 Eveline Gomes Vasconcelos1 Priscila de Faria-Pinto1

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• Binational burden of American cutaneous leishmaniasis in Oiapoque, Amapá State, Brazil, bordering French Guiana

  Thiago Vasconcelos-dos-Santos1 2 Raimunda Cleide Gonçalves Chaves3 Ghislaine Prévot4 Fernando Tobias Silveira1 Marinete Marins Póvoa1 2 Elizabeth Ferreira Rangel1 5

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• Accumulation of oocysts of Cryptosporidium parvum in Biomphalaria glabrata (Pulmonata:Planorbidae) under experimental conditions

  Cinthia Lopes Schiffler1 Jairo Pinheiro2 Teresa Cristina Bergamo do Bomfim3

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• Bronchiolitis Hospitalization in Southern Brazil from 2002 to 2012: A Count Time-series Approach

  Guilherme Zubatch da Cunha1 Eniuce Menezes de Souza2 Márcia Lorena Alves dos Santos3

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• The topical treatment of old world cutaneous leishmaniasis with gentian violet along with cryotherapy: a pilot single-blind randomized controlled clinical trial

  Mozhdeh Sepaskhah1 Kasra Behdad1 Zahra Bagheri2

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• Spatiotemporal patterns of AIDS incidence among adults in São Paulo, Brazil

  Elisangela Aparecida da Silva Lizzi1 Altacílio Aparecido Nunes2 Edson Zangiacomi Martinez2

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• Survival analysis of patients with sepsis in Brazil

  Eliane Pereira da Silva1 Vinícius da Costa Duarte2 Miguel Maia Soares2 Alexia Tayane Menezes de Melo2 Emily Ramos Calife2 Gilmar da Silva Rebouças2 Dyego Leandro Bezerra de Souza3

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• Clinico-immunological spectrum of American tegumentary leishmaniasis and leprosy coinfection: A case series in Southeastern Brazil

  Sebastian Vernal1 Roberto Bueno-Filho1 Ciro Martins Gomes2 Ana Maria Roselino1

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• Different susceptibilities of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus larvae to plant-derived products

  Alzeir Machado Rodrigues1 2 Caroline de Goes Sampaio3 João Sammy Nery de Souza4 Adriana Rolim Campos5 Abel Brasil Ramos da Silva6 Selene Maia de Morais7 Victor Emanuel Pessoa Martins8

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• Clinical and laboratory profiles of children with severe chikungunya infection

  Francisca Lillyan Christyan Nunes Beserra1 Gustavo Mesquita Oliveira1 Tino Miro Aurélio Marques1 Luís Arthur Brasil Gadelha Farias1 Janete Romão dos Santos1 Elizabeth De Francesco Daher2 Robério Dias Leite3 4 Evelyne Santana Girão1 4 Roberto da Justa Pires Neto1 4

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• Cost-effectiveness analysis of diagnostic-therapeutic strategies for visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil

  Tália Santana Machado de Assis1 2 Ana Rabello2 Gláucia Cota2 Guilherme Loureiro Werneck3 André Luís Ferreira de Azeredo-da-Silva4 5

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• Confirmation of the occurrence of Panstrongylus rufotuberculatus (Champion, 1899) in the state of Acre, Western Amazon

  Ailse Silva de Oliveira1 Mariane Albuquerque Lima Ribeiro1 2 Gabriela Vieira de Souza Castro1 2 Nilson Alves Brilhante3 Luís Marcelo Aranha Camargo1 4 5 6 7 Dionatas Ulises de Oliveira Meneguetti1 8 9 10

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• Honey bee envenoming in Santa Catarina, Brazil, 2007 through 2017: an observational, retrospective cohort study

  Suzana Kniphoff de Oliveira1 Daisson José Trevisol2 Gabriel Cremona Parma2 Rui Seabra Ferreira Júnior3 4 Alexandre Naime Barbosa5 Benedito Barraviera3 4 Fabiana Schuelter-Trevisol1 2

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• Seroprevalence of Neospora caninum and Toxoplasma gondii in dogs from an urban area of North-eastern Brazil: a spatial approach

  Islanne Barbosa de Souza1 Pollyanne Raysa Fernandes2 Tatiene Rossana Móta Silva1 Cleber Vinicius Brito Santos3 Naiara Mirelly Marinho da Silva1 Carlos Roberto Cruz Ubirajara Filho1 Gílcia Aparecida de Carvalho1 Leucio Câmara Alves2 Rinaldo Aparecido Mota2 Rafael Antonio Nascimento Ramos1

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• Schistosomiasis mansoni in the northeast region of brazil: temporal modeling of positivity, hospitalization,and mortality rates

  Leonardo Feitosa da Silva1 Bruno Eduardo Bastos Rolim Nunes1 Thiago Cavalcanti Leal1 João Paulo Silva de Paiva1 Amanda Maria Sandes Lemos1 Lívia Monique Maurício de Araújo1 Maria Deysiane Porte de Araújo1 2 Michael Ferreira Machado1 Carlos Alberto de Carvalho Fraga1 3 Carlos Dornels Freire de Souza1 2

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• Descriptive analysis of syphilis cases reported in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil identifies failure in treatment

  José Victor Bortolotto Bampi1 Maisa Estopa Correa1 Graciela Mendonça dos Santos Bet1 2 Silvana Beutinger Marchioro1 Simone Simionatto1

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• Occurrence of triatomines in an urban residential complex in the municipality of Rio Branco, Acre, South-Western Amazon

  Mariane Albuquerque Lima Ribeiro1 2 Gabriela Vieira de Souza Castro1 2 Janis Lunier de Souza3 João Aristeu da Rosa4 5 Luis Marcelo Aranha Camargo2 6 7 8 Dionatas Ulises de Oliveira Meneguetti2 9 10

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• Prevalence of cryptococcosis in Atlántico, department of Colombia assessed with an active epidemiological search

  María Clara Noguera1 Patricia Escandón2 Merle Arévalo1 Yina García1 Luz Estela Suárez3 Elizabeth Castañeda2

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• Serological and molecular retrospective analysis of hepatitis E suspected cases from the Eastern Brazilian Amazon 1993-2014

  Alex Junior Souza de Souza1 2 Andreza Pinheiro Malheiros2 Vânia Pinto Sarmento2 Fabricio de Souza Resende2 Max Moreira Alves2 Heloisa Marceliano Nunes2 Manoel do Carmo Pereira Soares2 Lilian Rose Marques de Sá1

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• Relationships between phagocytosis, mucoid phenotype, and genetic characteristics of Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates

  Francinete Carla Nunes Cavalcanti1 Juliana Falcão Rodrigues2 Adriane Borges Cabral3 4 Larissa Caina Barbosa de Azarias3 Marcos Antônio de Morais Júnior5 Célia Maria Machado Barbosa de Castro1 Ana Catarina de Souza Lopes1

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• Biofilm formation by blood isolates of Candida parapsilosis sensu stricto in the presence of a hyperglycidic solution at comparable concentrations of total parenteral nutrition

  Thalita Caroline Herek¹ Vinícius Ribeiro Menegazzo² Mayara Baptistucci Ogaki¹ Hugo Felix Perini¹ Luciana Furlaneto Maia³ Marcia Cristina Furlaneto¹

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• Anti-Candida and anti-quorum sensing activity of airborne microorganisms detected by a rapid method

  Andria Lopes Cruz¹ Fabiana Silva de Souza¹ Maxwel Adriano Abegg^{1 2}

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• Popular names for bushmaster (Lachesis muta) and lancehead (Bothrops atrox) snakes in the Alto Juruá region: repercussions for clinical-epidemiological diagnosis and surveillance

  Ageane Mota da Siva^{1 2} Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro^{3 4} Paulo Sérgio Bernarde^{2 5}

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• Prevalence of urodynamic changes with risk for upper urinary tract damage in neuroschistosomiasis patients

  Carlos Antonio de Souza¹ Fernanda Camila F.S Calisto² Carlos Antonio de Souza Filho¹ Larissa Clara Lopes de Souza² Luis Gustavo Morato de Toledo⁴ Antonio Pedro Flores Auge³

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• Performance of an immuno-rapid malaria Pf/Pv rapid diagnostic test for malaria diagnosis in the Western Brazilian Amazon

  Monica Regina Farias Costa¹ Ana Luísa Rubert Barcelos² Maria Angélica de Camargo² Gisely Cardoso de Melo^{1 3} Anne Cristine Almeida^{1 3} Allyson Guimarães da Costa^{1 3} Jose Diego de Brito Sousa^{1 3} Marly Marques de Melo^{1 3} Maria das Graças Costa Alecrim^{1 3} Marcus Vinicius Guimarães de Lacerda^{1 2 4} Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro^{1 3}

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• Serological status of childbearing-aged women for Toxoplasma gondii and cytomegalovirus in northern Kosovo and Metohija

  Jelena Aritonovic Pribakovic¹ Natasa Katanic¹ Tatjana Radevic¹ Mirjana Stojanovic Tasic¹ Mirjana Kostic¹ Boban Stolic¹ Aleksandra Radulovic² Verica Minic³ Ksenija Bojovic⁴ Radoslav Katanic¹

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• Morphological differentiation between seven Brazilian populations of Haemagogus capricornii and Hg. janthinomys (Diptera: Culicidae) using geometric morphometry of the wings

  Shayenne Olsson Freitas Silva^{1 2} * Ana Laura Carbajal de la Fuente³ * Cecilia Ferreira de Mello^{1 4} Jeronimo Alencar¹

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• Natural history of experimental arthritis induced by Paracoccidioides brasiliensis in wistar rats

  Eduardo Alexandre Loth¹ Vanessa Cecatto¹ Rodrigo Daniel Genske² Maricília Silva Costa² Rinaldo Ferreira Gandra¹ Cleverson Marcelo Pilatti²

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Case Report

• Unusual vaginal bleeding due to a leech bite in a girl from a tropical area: A case report

  Malihe Hasanzadeh1 Hossein Zarrinfar2 * Mohsen Najjari3

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• A case of envenomation caused by Oxybelis fulgidus (Serpentes, Colubridae) in Brazilian Amazon

  Kamila Vieira Silva1 3 Renato do Carmo Said1 João Guilherme Pontes Lima Assy1 Marcelo Ribeiro Duarte2 Pasesa Pascuala Quispe Torrez1 Francisco Oscar de Siqueira França1 3

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• First report of treatment failure in a patient with cutaneous leishmaniasis infected by Leishmania (Viannia) naiffi carrying Leishmania RNA virus: a fortuitous combination?

  Ricardo Vieira-Gonçalves1 # Giselle Aparecida Fagundes-Silva1 # Júlia Furtado Heringer1 Maria Fantinatti1 Alda Maria Da-Cruz1 Manoel Paes Oliveira-Neto2 Jorge Augusto Oliveira Guerra3 Adriano Gomes-Silva1 4

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• Cervical brucellar spondylitis causing incomplete limb paralysis

  Yao Zhang1 Qiang Zhang1 Chang-song Zhao1

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• Congenital toxoplasmosis: the challenge of early diagnosis of a complex and neglected disease

  Janer Aparecida Silveira Soares1 Antônio Prates Caldeira2

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• First case report of cryptococcosis due to Cryptococcus decagattii in a pediatric patient in Argentina

  Ana Berejnoi1 Constanza Giselle Taverna2 Mariana Mazza2 Matías Vivot2 Guillermina Isla2 Susana Córdoba2 Graciela Davel2

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• Challenging Management of Hepatitis B infection in Ankylosing Spondylitis Patients in an Endemic Area during Immunosuppressive Therapy

  Gabriel Pacífico Seabra Nunes1 Patrícia da Silva Cunha2 Daniele Patrícia Dal Bosco2 Sandra Lúcia Euzébio Ribeiro3

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• De novo histoid leprosy in a Colombian patient with multiple skin nodules on the ears and extremities

  Lina Marcela Piedrahíta-Rojas, Claudia Juliana Díaz, Kevin Escandón-Vargas

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• Visceral leishmaniasis mimicking systemic lupus erythematosus

  Greyce Christine Lisboa Bueno, Amanda Terra de Sá Koerich, Luciana Bonnassis Burg, Sara Letícia Kretzer, Joanita Ângela Gonzaga Del Moral, Ivânio Alves Pereira

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• Visceral leishmaniasis in pregnant women from Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil: A case report and literature review

  Francielly Tertulino Cunha1 Isadora Correia Lopes, Francisco Clitson Sousa Oliveira, Igor Thiago Queiroz

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• Septic arthritis caused by Salmonella enterica serotype Rubislaw: A case report

  Antonio Mário Tassinari¹ Mariana Tresoldi das Neves Romaneli² Ricardo Mendes Pereira³ Antonia Teresinha Tresoldi⁴

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• Good response to pentamidine isethionate in a case of Mucosal Leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis that was difficult to treat: Case Report

  Benivaldo Ramos Ferreira Terceiro, Tania Salgado de Souza Torraca, Frederico Pereira Bom Braga, Ana Cristina da Costa Martins, Lucia Regina Brahim, Mauricio Naoto Saheki, Luciana de Freitas Campos Miranda, Armando de Oliveira Schubach, Cláudia Maria Valete-Rosalino

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Images in Infectious Diseases

• Biett’s sign: a hallmark sign of secondary syphilis

  Fred Bernardes Filho1 Ana Laura Rosifini Alves Rezende1 Marcos Davi Gomes de Sousa2

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• Envenomation by a juvenile pit viper (Bothrops atrox) presumed to be dead

  Ageane Mota da Silva1 2 Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro3 4 Paulo Sérgio Bernarde5

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• Multivesicular hydatid cyst of the kidney

  Ebrahim Rasoulian1 Mohammad Zibaei2 3 Farzaneh Firoozeh4

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• Histopathological findings of nucleus pulposus in lumbar brucellar spondylodiscitis

  Yao zhang1 Qiang Zhang1 Zheng Zeng2

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• Herpes simplex virus transmission following brown howler monkey (Alouatta guariba) bite

  Marcelo Rosandiski Lyra, Lara Braga Oliveira, Edson Elias da Silva

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• Venom concentrations in blisters and hemorrhagic bullae in a patient bitten by a Taiwan habu (Protobothrops mucrosquamatus)

  Chih-Chuan Lin¹ Po-Jung Wang² Chien-Chun Liu²

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Letter

• “Kambô” frog (Phyllomedusa bicolor): use in folk medicine and potential health risks

  Francisco Vaniclei Araújo da Silva1 2 Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro3 4 Paulo Sérgio Bernarde1 2

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• Clinical Practice Guidelines for Chagas Disease: Recent Developments and Future Needs

  Colin Forsyth1 Andrea Marchiol1 Rafael Herazo1 Eric Chatelain1 Carolina Batista1 Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft1 Graeme Bilbe1 Sergio Sosa-Estani1

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• The dentist’s role in syphilis prevention and control

  Clea Adas Saliba Garbin, Antonio Carlos Pacheco Filho, Artênio José Isper Garbin, Karina Tonini dos Santos Pacheco

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• Prevention of zoonotic diseases in immunocompromised patients: a neglected question

  Andréa de Lima Rodrigues Alves Pereira¹ Maria Rita Donalísio Cordeiro¹ Rodrigo Nogueira Angerami²

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Erratum

• Erratum: Hepatitis Delta Prevalence in South America: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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• Erratum: Prevalence and risk factors of toxoplasmosis among adults in a small Brazilian city

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Mini Review

• Rheumatic heart disease in the modern era: recent developments and current challenges.

  Matheus Tozatto Baptista Coelho Leal1 Livia Silva Araújo Passos1 2 Felipe Vieira Guarçoni1 João Marcelo de Souza Aguiar1 Rafael Benjamim Rosa da Silva1 Thiago Mendonça Nunes de Paula1 Rafael Figueiredo dos Santos1 Maria Cecília Landim Nassif1 Nayana F. A. Gomes1 Timothy C. Tan3 Maria Carmo Pereira Nunes1

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Obituary

• Nota de Falecimento Sueli de Melo Bueno

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• Francisco das Chagas Oliveira Luz (★1933 †2017)

  Pedro Luiz Tauil, João Barberino Santos, Cleudson de Castro Nery

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• Luiz Fernando Ferreira (★1936 †2018)

  Pedro Paulo Chieffi¹

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