Sporotrichosis is a suba cu te or chro nic myco sis cau sed by the dimor phic fun gus Sporothrix schenc kii which is ende mic in Brazil and is trans mit ted pri ma rily through trau ma tic ino cu la tion of its cau sa ti ve agent into the skin. The zoo no tic trans mis sion, espe cially from infec ted cats, has been demons tra ted in seve ral reports and case series. We pre sent simul ta neous ...

In Bra z i l , v i s c e ral leishmaniasis poses a serious endemic and epidemic pro b l e m . In re c e n t years the disease has spread to seve ral St a t e s that had not previously re p o rted any human or animal cases. For canine surve y s , the Mi ni s t ry of Health currently recommends use of the indirect immunofluorescence assay (IIF), with a sensitivity of 90-100% and specificity of 8 ...

1Laboratory of Innate Immunity, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC; 2Research Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine, Montreal, QC; 3Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC; 4Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC; 5Department of Pediatrics, University of Mo...

Claudie Laprise1,2, Helen Trottier1,2, Patricia Monnier3, François Coutlée4,5, and Marie-Hélène Mayrand1,4,6,* Department of Social and PreventiveMedicine, Université de Montréal, 7101 Avenue du Parc, Montréal, QC, CanadaH3N 1X7 Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Centre, 3175 Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Room A-830, Montréal, QC, Canada H3T 1C5 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, McGill University...

Objective. – To describe the organizational and operational capabilities of specialized centres for children with psychomotor disability in Abidjan, Republic of Côte d’Ivoire. Materials and methods. – This descriptive study was carried out from February to May, 2006 at the various specialized centres for children with psychomotor disability that exist in the district of Abidjan. The procedure c...

OBJECTIVES Esophageal atresia with or without tracheo-esophageal fistula is a frequent malformation that occurs in about 1 of 3000 live births. It can be associated with other congenital malformations. The aim of this study was to measure the frequency of heterotopic pancreas (HP) in children with esophageal atresia (EA) and to evaluate possible linkage with other malformations. MATERIALS AND...

Strotz (1956) …rst suggested that people are more impatient when making short-run tradeo¤s than long-run ones. Many experimental studies supports this conjecture. Retirement decisions …t this description: when deciding whether retire or not, individuals may weight too much the costs of remaining at work (i.e. disutility of working an additional year, implicit tax on continued activity) and too ...

Background: Phylogenetic analyses based on datasets rich in both genes and species (phylogenomics) are becoming a standard approach to resolve evolutionary questions. However, several difficulties are associated with the assembly of large datasets, such as multiple copies of a gene per species (paralogous or xenologous genes), lack of some genes for a given species, or partial sequences. The us...

BACKGROUND The absence of commercially available penicilloyl-polylysine (PPL) for most of the last decade severely hampered the practice of penicillin allergy evaluation because skin testing without PPL is reported to have a poor negative predictive value (NPV). OBJECTIVE To determine the safety and NPV of skin testing without PPL using only penicillin G followed by a 3-dose graded challenge ...