Publications

[meningococcal disease: a study on 226 cases during an epidemic period in londrina, parana, brazil (author's transl)].		1980	6776593
characterization of epidemic neisseria meningitidis serogroup c strains in several brazilian states.	epidemic strains of the neisseria meningitidis c:2b:p1.3 electrophoretic type 11 complex were responsible for an outbreak in curitiba, parana state, brazil, from 1990 to 1991. strains of this complex were also isolated in other brazilian states and were responsible for a meningococcal disease epidemic in são paulo state in 1990. serotyping both with monoclonal antibodies and by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis was useful for typing these epidemic strains related to the increased incidence of me ...	1994	7929775
epidemiology of meningococcal disease in southern brazil from 1995 to 2003, and molecular characterization of neisseria meningitidis using multilocus sequence typing.	to describe the epidemiology of meningococcal disease (md) in southern brazil.	2008	18290999
[study of 312 children with meningitis treated at a university hospital in the south of brazil].	the aim of this study is to evaluate the clinical and laboratorial aspects, as well as the etiological profile and the evolution characteristics, of the diverse types of severe meningitis treated at a pediatric clinic of a public university hospital. from a descriptive and retrospective study, 312 children at the pediatric clinic of the hospital de clínicas of the federal university of paraná were evaluated between january 2003 and january 2007. all of them had a probable diagnosis of meningitis ...	2009	19240011