ABSTRACT
The authors present 17 cases of symptomatic acute toxoplasmosis acquired by the ingestion of raw mutton offered during a party in September 1993. The incubation period carried from 6 to 13 days (10.9 +/- 7.0). Sixteen (94.5%) patients presented fever, headache, myalgia, arthralgia, and adenopathy (cervical or cervical/axilar). Hepatomegaly was found in 6 patients, splenomegaly in 4 and rash in 2. One patient presented clinical picture of chorioretinitis confirmed by ophthalmological exam. All patients showed increased serum levels of specific antibodies (IgG and IgM) on indirect immunofuorescence assay evidencing acute phase of toxoplasmosis. The patients were treated with specific drugs for toxoplasmosis and presented satisfactory clinical and laboratory response.
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Disease Outbreaks , Meat , Toxoplasmosis/epidemiology , Acute Disease , Adult , Animals , Brazil/epidemiology , Child , Female , Goats , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Toxoplasmosis/transmissionABSTRACT
A reativação das formas indeterminadas e crônicas da Doença de Chagas (DC) tem sido associada com leucemias, linfomas, transplantes e infecção pelo vírus da imunodeficiência humana (HIV), segundo Rocha et al; Pitella; Uip et ai. Devido à disseminação da síndrome da imunodeficiência adquirida (SIDA) na América Latina, onde o DC continua sendo uma importante endemia, há um presente e crescente risco de co-infecção com o HIV e o Trypanossoma Cruzi, afirmam Amato e Neto et al. O objetivo deste trabalho é determinar a freqüência desta associação nos pacientes atendidos no HURNP, Londrina Paraná. Os resultados das reações sorológicas para DC (HAI, IFI, E ELISA) realizados em 181 soros randomicamente selecionados de pacientes com testes anti-HIV reagentes (Elisa e Western Blot) foram analisados. Entre eles, 4 (2,20%) mostraram resultados positivos em, pelo menos, duas reações sorológicas para DC; 4 (2,20%) somente na HAI; 2 (1,10% somente na IFI e 1 (0,55%) mostrou resultados duvidosos na HAI; 2 (1,10%) somente na IFI e 1 (0,55%) mostrou resultados duvidosos na HAI E IFI. O fato de que a migração tem levado a DC a novas regiões geográficas e de que a DC tem sido crescentemente diagnosticada em populações urbanas, onde há uma alta prevalência de infecção pelo HIV, segundo Rocha et al, reforça a importância de se considerar o T.cruzi outro importante patógeno oportunista associado com a SIDA, especialmente em regiões endêmicas para o T.cruzi.
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Humans , Male , Female , Infant, Newborn , Child, Preschool , Child , Adolescent , Adult , Middle Aged , Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome , Chagas Disease , HIV , HIV Seropositivity , Trypanosoma cruziABSTRACT
Twenty seven cases of neurocysticercosis, with clinical picture of acute meningitis, are described. Twenty (74.1%) patients are male; the age was 4 to 42 years (23.6 +/- 11.7 years). The etiologic diagnosis was defined by the complement fixation test (Weinberg) and/or enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for cysticercosis in the cerebrospinal fluid (c. s. f.). Six patients that realized cranial computerized tomographic scan resembling neurocysticercosis. Twenty one (77.8%) have predominance of lymphomononuclear cells in the c. s. f. obtained in the admission to the hospital; in 6 (22.2%) there were predominance of polymorphonuclear neutrophils. In this c. s. f. lymphomononuclear pleocytosis and in three that have c. s. f. neutrophil pleocytosis, suggesting the diagnosis of neurocysticercosis. The treatment of acute neurocysticercosis was made with dexamethasone. All the patients survived and were transferred to the ambulatory of Neurology for follow-up and complementary treatment.
