Contribuição ao conhecimento do gênero Zelurus Hahn (Spiniger auct. ) (Reduviidae, Hemiptera)

In the present paper the authors describe the male and female genitalia of various species of Zelurus (=Spiniger). There were not always obtained reliable specific characters, specially in nearly related species. Futhermore there were studied 59 species and subspecies, from Dutch Guiana, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Argentine. New locality records and synonymic notes are given and some allotypes are designated. Eight species and two subspecies, from Brazil and Argentine, proved to new to science.

Contribuição ao conhecimento das paralisias periféricas, múltiplas, uni-laterais, dos nervos craneanos (Síndrome de Villaret)

O autor descreve longamente uma observação dêste raro síndromo de lesão dos troncos nervosos periféricos dos nervos craneanos. No histórico do paciente, apurou a Micose pulmonar, pelo Neogeotrichum pulmoneum e úlcera estomacal, havendo-se curado de ambas. O síndromo nervoso atual foi de origem traumática, por arma de fogo, penetrando a bala no espaço retro-parotidiano e lesando, com maior ou menor intensidade, os nervos glossofaringeu, pneumogástrico, espinhal, hipoglosso e o simpatico cervical esquerdos. Além do síndromo nervoso, teve o paciente um aneurisma da artéria carótida primitiva, que foi ligado.

Contribuição para o conhecimento do tifo exantemático neotrópico no Brasil

Os autores mostraram a necessidade de estudar minuciosamente os fócos da doença para o melhor conhecimento das questões epidemiológicas e clínicas da mesma. Mostraram que os Veados e Cabritos pódem desempenhar papel importante na difusão do virus. Os autores dão gráficos sôbre a reação de Weil-Felix com nove Proteus em homens e animais.

Subsídio ao melhor conhecimento do tifo exantemático neotrópico no Brasil: presença do virus no leite

In articles, already published, we have proved that the strain V. B. of Brazilian virus, goes through the placenta (Macacus rhesus) (1) and the apparently normal gastro-intestinal tube (1934-1937) (Canis familiaris) (2). Today we present the idea that the Brazilian virus can reach the milk of an animal even when the latter has only the unapparent disease. In former articles (**), we have shown that the goat (Capra hircus) can be an excellent reservoir of Brazilian virus, having the strain V. B. in its blood and presenting a Weil Felix reaction high and in “group”, with the disease unapparent. When the goats are bred in the laboratory, and even in some foci of the disease, they give a negative Weil Felix, being zero for all the nine strains of Proteus. In the interior of Brazil, in many localities, goats substitute cows, in supplying milk for children and adults, and in some districts goat’s milk is considered superior to cow’s milk, possessing marvellous qualities for men, women an children. Having proved, now, that goat’s milk can contain the virus even when the animal presents nothing clinically, and having also shown that this virus goes through the digestive tube apparently sound, it is easy to understand how infants-in-arms, that is, only a few months old, living in strictly domestic surroundings, can contract the disease; we have many such cases on record. Protocol of the experiments: Goat nº 2, white, January 1948. This animal had been inoculated with the V. B. strain of the Brazilian virus in June 1947, via intra-peritoneal, presenting nothing then, not even a feverish reaction. On that occasion it was not possible to isolate the virus of the blood, although the Weil Felix reaction was positive, high and in “group”. Now January 17, 1948, seven months later, the same animal was reinoculated with a semple of virus V. B. in the same manner (intra-peritoneal) two days after bringing forth two sturdy kids. The virus V. B. was obtained from guinea-pig n. 7170 whose thermic graph was as follows: Temperatura – 38,8 – 39,1 – 39,5 – 39,4 –39,8 – 40,4 – 40,2 – 40,1 - + Necropsy – Typical lesions. The spleen weighed 5 grammes. With 3c.c. of emulsion from the nervous system of this guinea-pig, we inoculated not only the goat, as also two guineapigs, number 14 and number 5. The following is the thermic graph of one: - Guinea-pig n. 14 – 38,9 – 39,1 – 39,2 – 39.2 – 40,7 – 41,0 – 40,5 – 40,4 – 40,1 - + Typical lesions. Guinea-pig n. 2 presented the following thermic graph after the infective inoculation: - 39,5 – 39,7 – 39,7 – 39,7 – 39,5 – 39,3 – 39,5 – 39,5 – 39,5 – etc. Clinically, this animal presented nothing unusual, feeding well and suckling the kids normally. The Weil Felix reaction was positive, in “group” high very similar to the reaction obtained in June 1947, with the first infective inoculation. On the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh day after the infective inoculation, we took milk from the goat and inoculated male guinea-pigs via intra-celular and via intra-peritoneal, giving 5 c.c. to each animal. Guinea-pig n. 4663, inoculated with 5 c.c. of milk, via intra-muscular, taken on the third day of the infectaive inoculation, presented the following thermic graph: - 38.8 (*) – 39,1 – 39,0 – 39,1 – 40,1 – 40,1 – 40,8 (**) – 40,8 – Killed – Typical deisions (***). The virus V. B. of this goat, circulated naturally in the blood up to the third day, having passed into the milk, producing nothing in the kids, on account of the natural resistance of these animals to the disease. The Weil Felix reaction and that of Widal for the Burcellas suis, abortus and militensis were negative for the goat and the kids. It is remarkable that, even with inoculation of the living virus after a period of seven months we cannot get a real and absolute immunity of sensitive animals. We shall return to this subject later. The hart Mazama simplicicornis may be a carrier of the virus in Brasil. The experimental serum against the virus of Exanthematic neotropical typhus has not protected guinea-pigs.

Subsídio para o conhecimento e diagnóstico das doenças do grupo tifo exantemático no Brasil

Os autores estudaram comparativamente o valor da reação de Weil-Felix e de Fixação do Complemento nas doenças do grupo Tifo exantemático. Concluém que ambas têm qualidades e defeitos. Na doença precoce, ambos falharam. No período de estado da doença, os resultados são não raro, decisivos com as duas provas sorológicas. Dos ciqüenta (50) dias em diante, da doença natural, a reação de fixação do complemento é mais precisa, ao apurar os casos antigos de indivíduos afastados de constantes e repetidas injeções de virus, pelos hematofagos portadores. Naqueles pacientes que permanecem nos fócos conhecidos da doença, sujeitos a inoculações constantes de virus, o Weil-Felix é também de grande valor diagnóstico. Mostraram os autores que o carneiro (Ovisa aries) é pouco sensível á raça V. B do Brasil e que o tatu (Tatus novencintus) não é sensível á mesma raça. Repetindo dados já antigo, apurados em Belo Horizonte, os autores verificaram que a raça V. B. do virus brasileiro atravessa a placenta e infecta o organismo dos fetos.

Contribuição ao conhecimento do tifo exantemático neotrópico no Brasil

O extrato total placentário humano, o Apoidin (Park-Davis) (hormônio sexual pré-hipofisoide), a Cortone (Merk, U.S.A. - acetato de Cortisona) e o sangue placentário total humano citratado, quando injetados como terpêutica curativa, não tiveram influência alguma benéfica na evolução da doença experimetnal pela raça V. B. no cobaio. As cobaias fêmeas prenhes, quando inoculadas com a raça V.B. apresentam, não raro, uma evolução mórbida aparentemente mais benígna que as não fecundadas.