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Histoplasmosis is a systemic fungal disease that occurs worldwide, causing symptomatic infection mostly in immunocompromised hosts. Etiological agent is the dimorphic fungus, Histoplasma capsulatum, which occurs in soil contaminated with bird or bat droppings. Major limitation in recognition of H. capsulatum infections is the low awareness, since other diseases may have similar symptomatology. The...
A new analytical methodology using HS-SPME/GC–MS was optimized in order to attain maximum sensitivity, using multivariate strategies. The proposed method was employed to evaluate the VOC profile exhaled from canine hair samples collected from 8 healthy dogs and from 16 dogs infected by Leishmania infantum. 274 VOCs were detected, which could be identified as aldehydes, ketones and hydrocarbons. After...
The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of association between positive Strongyloides stercoralis serology and diabetes mellitus. A total of 78 diabetic patients and 42 controls were evaluated. For a parasitological diagnosis, Baermann and Hoffman et al.'s methods were applied. The immunological diagnosis involved the indirect fluorescence antibody test, ELISA and Western blotting...
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