| cryptosporidial and microsporidial infections in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients in northeastern brazil. | to determine the frequency of the parasitic pathogens in human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)-infected patients in a developing world setting, 295 stool specimens were examined from 166 hiv-positive patients (49% with aids) at são josé hospital, fortaleza, brazil, from september 1990 to march 1992. significantly more patients with diarrhea (85%) than without (66%) had aids or aids-related complex (arc) (p < .005). of the potential parasitic causes of diarrhea, only cryptosporidium parvum and micro ... | 1994 | 8035045 |
| household epidemiology of cryptosporidium parvum infection in an urban community in northeast brazil. | to examine the transmission of cryptosporidium infection in households with an identified person with cryptosporidiosis. | 1994 | 8311373 |
| sexually transmitted infections, bacterial vaginosis, and candidiasis in women of reproductive age in rural northeast brazil: a population-based study. | population-based data on sexually transmitted infections (sti), bacterial vaginosis (bv), and candidiasis reflect the epidemiological situation more accurately than studies performed in specific populations, but such data are scarce. to determine the prevalence of sti, bv, and candidiasis among women of reproductive age from a resource-poor community in northeast brazil, a population-based cross sectional study was undertaken. all women from seven hamlets and the centre of pacoti municipality in ... | 2007 | 17924006 |
| factors related to hiv/tuberculosis coinfection in a brazilian reference hospital. | infection with both human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) and mycobacterium tuberculosis is currently the world's leading cause of death due to infectious agents. we evaluated factors related to the development of tuberculosis (tb) in hiv-infected patients who were being treated at an infectious diseases hospital in fortaleza, ceará, brazil. from january 2004 to december 2005, we made an epidemiological study through the analysis of the medical records of 171 patients, who were diagnosed as having ... | 2008 | 19030726 |
| western blot seroindeterminate individuals for human t-lymphotropic virus i/ii (htlv-i/ii) in fortaleza (brazil): a serological and molecular diagnostic and epidemiological approach. | how to handle western blot (wb) seroindeterminate individuals for human t-lymphotropic virus 1/2 (htlv-1/2) constitutes a challenge for blood banks and families. we made a cross-sectional study of 191 enzyme linked immunoassay (eia) reactive individuals from the hematological center (hemoce) of fortaleza (brazil), examining their serological (wb) and molecular (pcr) diagnosis, and demographic profiles, as well as a possible association of their condition with other infectious pathologies and ris ... | 2003 | 14499043 |
| molecular epidemiology of human immunodeficiency virus-1 in the state of ceará, northeast, brazil. | we analyzed, by env and gag heteroduplex mobility assay, 149 human immunodeficiency virus (hiv-1) positive samples collected in ceará during the year 2000. the prevalence of subtype b was 81.2% and the prevalence of subtype f and b/f recombinants were both 2.7%. eight (5.4%) and 12 (8%) out of 149 samples showed indeterminate results in the env and gag analysis respectively. by foki restriction fragment length polymorphism, 34% of the subtype b samples were identified as the typical brazilian su ... | 2003 | 12937754 |
| prevalence of hiv-1, hiv-2 and htlv antibody, in fortaleza, ceara, brazil, 1993-1994. | to evaluate the respective part of hiv-1, hiv-2, and human t lymphotropic virus (htlv) infection in fortaleza, the principal city of the ceara state (northeast of brazil), a cross-sectional seroepidemiological survey was conducted from july 1993 to february 1994 in 6 selected groups: pregnant women, tuberculosis (tb) patients, sexually transmitted disease (std) patients, female and male commercial sex workers (csws) and prisoners. sera were screened by mixt hiv-1/hiv-2 commercial enzyme immunoas ... | 1996 | 8894828 |