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| Camilo,Lilian Muniz; Pereira-Chioccola,Vera Lucia; Gava,Ricardo; Meira-Strejevitch,Cristina da Silva; Vidal,Jose Ernesto; Mattos,Cinara Cássia Brandão de; Frederico,Fábio Batista; De Mattos,Luiz Carlos; Spegiorin,Lígia Cosentino Junqueira Franco; Murata,Fernando Henrique Antunes; Ferreira,Marina Neves; Barbosa,Deusenia Machado Ulisses; Gonçalves,Fausto da Silva; Dias,Cristiane Moraes; Catelan,Marcia Wakai; Siqueira,Rubens Camargo; Previato,Mariana; Barbosa,Amanda Pires; Cavallini,Danilo. |
| ABSTRACT Symptomatic forms of toxoplasmosis are a serious public health problem and occur in around 10-20% of the infected people. Aiming to improve the molecular diagnosis of symptomatic toxoplasmosis in Brazilian patients, this study evaluated the performance of real time PCR testing two primer sets (B1 and REP-529) in detecting Toxoplasma gondii DNA. The methodology was assayed in 807 clinical samples with known clinical diagnosis, ELISA, and conventional PCR results in a 9-year period. All samples were from patients with clinical suspicion of several features of toxoplasmosis. According to the minimum detection limit curve (in CT), REP-529 had greater sensitivity to detect T. gondii DNA than B1. Both primer sets were retrospectively evaluated using 515... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Toxoplasma gondii; Symptomatic toxoplasmosis; Diagnosis; Real-time polymerase chain reaction. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702017000600638 |
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| Adiwardana,Natanael Sutikno; Morás,Juliana de Angelo; Bernardo,Leandro Lombo; Klautau,Giselle Burlamaqui; Queiroz,Wladimir; Vidal,Jose Ernesto. |
| ABSTRACT Osteomyelitis due to Cryptococcus neoformans are described in mostly 10% of patients with disseminated cryptococcosis, being direct inoculation even more uncommon. We report the case of an HIV-infected patient with history of recurring itching on his scalp and repetitive local trauma. For eighteen months, he noticed a painful and slow growing lump on his scalp. He was submitted to an excisional biopsy of the lesion but no etiological diagnosis was identified. After this procedure, the post-surgical wound never completely healed. At admission, the patient presented nausea and headache for three days and an open orifice into his skull. Investigations confirmed meningitis and skull osteomyelitis caused by Cryptococcus neoformans. He was treated with... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/report |
Palavras-chave: Cryptococcus neoformans; Osteomyelitis; Skull; HIV. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702018000600499 |
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