Sorotipos de Streptococcus suis identificados em suínos com meningite no estado do Paraná / Streptococcus suis serotypes identified from meningitis cases in pigs in Parana, Brazil

A total of 76 samples of Streptococcus suis isolated from meningitis cases in pigs from 2005 to 2009 were evaluated. The samples were collected from 3 to 21-week-old pigs raised in 30 farms located in Paraná state, Brazil. The samples of S. suis were obtained as part of routine procedures and were serotyped by coagglutination test using rabbit hyperimmune sera for the serotypes 1 to 9 and ½. S. suis type 2 was the most frequent, followed by serotypes 1, ½ and 3.

Tratamento da atrofia hemifacial progressiva pela transferencia microcirurgica de retalho dermogorduroso livre. / Treatment of progressive hemifacial atrophy by the microsurgical transference of a free dermofatty flap

Os autores apresentam um caso de atrofia hemifacial grave tratado com um retalho livre dermogorduroso desepitelizado transferido da regiao inguinocrural para a face com tecnica microcirurgica. Esta indicado nos casos em que a atrofia da hemiface e acentuada. Comentam a indicacao destes retalhos em relacao aos outros retalhos migrados e os detalhes da cirurgia e pos-operatorio