{"title":"Case report: First case of fungemia caused by Papiliotrema laurentii in a patient with SARS-CoV-2 infection.","authors":"Regielly Caroline Raimundo Cognialli, Gabriella Felber Fratucci, Bruno Hassunuma Carneiro, Karyna Leal Antonio, Morgana Ferreira Voidaleski, Larissa Molina Favarello, Vania Aparecida Vicente, Flávio Queiroz-Telles","doi":"10.1590/0037-8682-0480-2024","DOIUrl":"10.1590/0037-8682-0480-2024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previously considered saprobe and non-pathogenic, the fungus Papiliotrema laurentii (formerly known as Cryptococcus laurentii), is rarely associated with human infection. Nevertheless, there has been an increase in reported infections by non-neoformans cryptococci. After a literature search on the Cochrane Library, LILACS, SciELO, MEDLINE, PubMed, and PMC (PubMed Central) databases, we conclude that this is the first case report of fungemia and probable meningitis caused by Papiliotrema laurentii in a previously immunocompetent host with associated COVID-19.</p>","PeriodicalId":21199,"journal":{"name":"Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical","volume":"57 ","pages":"e008002023"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10852462/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139703246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Íttalo Luã Silva Medeiros, Cinara Wanderléa Felix Bezerra, Mario Antonio Navarro-Silva
{"title":"New occurrences of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Atlantic Forest biome of the Brazilian Northeast.","authors":"Íttalo Luã Silva Medeiros, Cinara Wanderléa Felix Bezerra, Mario Antonio Navarro-Silva","doi":"10.1590/0037-8682-0513-2024","DOIUrl":"10.1590/0037-8682-0513-2024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Information regarding the distribution of Culicidae species in the northeastern region of Brazil is scarce.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Immatures were collected from approximately four fragments of the Atlantic Forest.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>This study presents new occurrences of 18 Culicidae species in Pernambuco state: Anopheles kompi, Georgecraigius fluviatilis, Culex bidens, Culex chidesteri, Culex bastagarius, Culex imitator, Mansonia humeralis, Wyeomyia incaudata, Uranotaenia apicalis, Culex mollis, Culex usquatus, Culex dunni, Culex serratimarge, Culex ybarmis, Culex microphyllus, Sabethes purpureus, Wyeomyia pilicauda, and Wyeomyia airosai. The last nine species were also new records for the northeast region.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>With the inclusion of these newly recorded species, the total number of mosquitoes documented in Pernambuco state now rises to 94.</p>","PeriodicalId":21199,"journal":{"name":"Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical","volume":"57 ","pages":"e007012024"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10852454/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139703253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Felipe Marques da Costa, Bruno Lima Moreira, Milena Tenório Cerezoli, Christina Shiang, Fábio José Haddad
{"title":"Cryptococcosis with an endobronchial tumor-like growth in an immunocompetent patient.","authors":"Felipe Marques da Costa, Bruno Lima Moreira, Milena Tenório Cerezoli, Christina Shiang, Fábio José Haddad","doi":"10.1590/0037-8682-0497-2023","DOIUrl":"10.1590/0037-8682-0497-2023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21199,"journal":{"name":"Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical","volume":"57 ","pages":"e009022024"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10852461/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139703247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Invasive aspergillosis infection in an immunocompromised patient.","authors":"Elif Gündoğdu, Nevin Aydın","doi":"10.1590/0037-8682-0540-2023","DOIUrl":"10.1590/0037-8682-0540-2023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21199,"journal":{"name":"Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical","volume":"57 ","pages":"e009002024"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10852466/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139703251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrés Eduardo Prieto Torres, Sergio Andrés Bolívar-Lozano, Álvaro A Faccini-Martínez
{"title":"Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage as a presentation of severe anicteric leptospirosis.","authors":"Andrés Eduardo Prieto Torres, Sergio Andrés Bolívar-Lozano, Álvaro A Faccini-Martínez","doi":"10.1590/0037-8682-0582-2023","DOIUrl":"10.1590/0037-8682-0582-2023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21199,"journal":{"name":"Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical","volume":"57 ","pages":"e009052024"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10852465/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139703248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Erratum.","authors":"","doi":"10.1590/0037-8682-0518b-2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0518b-2023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>[This corrects the article doi: 10.1590/0037-8682-0518-2023].</p>","PeriodicalId":21199,"journal":{"name":"Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical","volume":"56 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139417908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}