| visceral leishmaniosis caused by leishmania (l.) mexicana in a mexican patient with human immunodeficiency virus infection. | a 36 year old male was admitted in december 1997 to hospital with afternoon fever, malaise and hepatosplenomegaly. he also had a dry cough, dyspnoea and anaemia. pneumonia caused by pneumocystis carinii and human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection were documented. the hiv infection was confirmed in 1997 with 290,000 virus copies. the patient had been in the mexican state of chiapas which is known to be endemic for visceral leishmaniosis (vl) and localized cutaneous leishmaniosis (lcl). the v ... | 2000 | 10998226 |
| inhibition of hiv-1 reverse transcriptase, toxicological and chemical profile of calophyllum brasiliense extracts from chiapas, mexico. | calophyllum species are sources of calanolides, which inhibit human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase (hiv-1 rt). the hexane extract of the leaves from c. brasiliense collected in soconusco, state of chiapas, mexico, analyzed by hplc showed to contain apetalic acid, calanolides b, and c. it showed potent anti-hiv-1 rt inhibition (ic(50)=20.2++g/ml), but was not toxic in mice (ld(50)=1.99g/kg). the histological study of the mice treated at the highest dose revealed no alteration ... | 2011 | 21723379 |
| [prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection and its relationship with other sexually transmitted diseases in a group of prostitutes from huixtla, chiapas]. | we investigated the hiv prevalence rate in 106 female prostitutes residing in huixtla, state of chiapas, which is a small town in the southeastern part of mexico, from february of 1989 to january of 1990. we used an immunoenzymatic method (serodia). the mean age was 35 years ranging from 17 to 43. sixty six women (62%) were from central america, and the remainder had been born in mexico. the hiv antibody was not detected in the women, but 39 (37%) had a sexually transmitted disease: the more fre ... | 1991 | 1866497 |