A 23-year-old woman came to our outpatient clinic with a two-weeks history of pruritic reddish lesions on her armpits and groins. Her past medical history was consistent with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF-1), for which she was under routine follow-up. Upon dermatological examination we observed multiple erythematous to violaceous coalescent and infiltrative plaques with central clearing which we...

f.r.c.s. Eng.; Medical Officer, Christs Hospital, London. Fourth Edition, 8vo. Pp. 327. Price 10s. 6d (H. K. Lewis, London.) This valuable monograph, on a subject of the first importance to Medical Officers of large Schools as well as to the general practitioner, has been entirely rewritten in the light of the latest available knowledge of the parasitology of the subject. Its bulk has grown con...

Approximately20%ofpatientspresentwithatypicalorvariant formsof PR,which are less readily recognized than typical eruptions and may pose a diagnostic challenge.2,3 The morphologic characteristics of the eruption may be papular, vesicular, purpuric or hemorrhagic, or urticarial. Very small lesions will be observed in papular PR, and PR with enormous plaques is known as pityriasis rosea gigantea o...

The study of the fungal community composition in house dust is useful to assess accumulative exposure fungi indoor environments. objective this research was characterize diversity and its association with environmental conditions bedrooms. For this, collected from 41 bedrooms children between ages 8 9 a family history asthma, residents Havana, Cuba. content each sample determined by two methods...

A sensitive and efficient colorimetric method was optimized for detection of esterase enzymes produced by endophytic fungi for development of High-Throughput Screening (HTS). The fungi were isolated and obtained previously from plant species of Cerrado and Atlantic Forest located in areas of environmental preservation in the State of Sao Paulo / Brazil, as part of the project "Chemical and biol...

spores as causal agents in allergies and respiratory diseases. Method: Three periods of sampling have been carried out. The first sampling in 2005 with Rotorod equipment; the quantitative parameters were diversity, volume, and frequency of spores, as well as its relation with meteorological factors, like average temperature, relative humidity, and precipitation; a second study was performed in ...

With the aim of increasing the knowledge about endophytic fungi, a group of microorganisms with high biotechnological potential and a valuable source of useful metabolites, a survey in leaves of mangrove plants (Avicennia schaueriana, Laguncularia racemosa, and Rhizophora mangle) was performed at the Itamaracá Island, PE, Brazil. Leaves were collected, during two seasons, dry and rainy, superfi...