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.

Contribuição ao conhecimento da melhor terapêutica curativa do tifo exantemático no Brasil (doenca de Piza, Meyer e Gomes)

O autor diz ter tentado a terapêutica do Tifo exantemático neotrópico entre nós, por várias maneiras, durante cêrca de 18 anos, sem que tivesse obtido resultado apreciável. Agora, porém, pensa que a questão está resolvida com o emprego apropriado da Terramicina. Antes dêsse antibiótico aparecer, aconselhára a Aureomycina e a Cloromicetina. Prefere, porém, agora a Terramycina, via oral e sub-cutânea ou intra muscular. Diz o autor que com ou sem terapêutica, as formas graves do Tifo exantemático neotrópico no Brasil deixavam escapar 16 a 18 % dos doentes. Foi por isso que agora, reunindo cerca de 34 casos das formas graves da doença, resolveu publicar o quadro que se segue. Nele vemos que dos doentes tratados com a Aureomicina, morreram 31,25% e os tratados com Terramicina, apenas 6,6%. Deve assinalar que o doente tratado com Terramicina que faleceu, esteve apenas no Hospital Cícero Ferreira, 7 horas antes da morte. Descreve 4 observações clínicas da doença.

Contribuição ao Conhecimento do Gênero Sarcophagula Wulp, 1887 (Diptera-Sarcophagidae)

The present paper, a revision of the genus Sarcophagula Wulp, is based upon material from the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz and the American Museum of Natural History. Five species are considered two of wich are new ones.

Contribuição para o conhecimento das doenças do grupo tifo exantemático do Brasil

In this work the author publishes an observation of a human case, which he believes to be the second in South America, of "Q" fever in Minas Gerais. The first positive data and the first observation were made in S. Paulo by Dr. Helvecio Brandão and there communicated to the S. Paulo Medical Association in 1951 and 1954. The first part was published in 1953; the second part is yet unpublished. The author of the present work cured his patient with Terramycine. He thinks that greater research should be made amongst the workpeople who have to do with cattle in the pastures and slaughterhouses in order to verify the extent of the disease amongst us. Belo Horizonte Dezembro de 1954

Contribuição para o conhecimento das doenças do grupo tifo exantemático no Brasil

In this work, the author considers that in Brazil, there exist three forms of the disease of the Exanthematic Typhus group, that have been well studied: Neotropic Exanthematic Typhus, Murine Typhus and "Q" fever. The first of these forms has existed in this country, perhaps, for over five hundred years. He says that modern antibiotic, Aureomycin, Chloromycetin and, principally, Terramcin have resolved the problem of the therapeutic treatment of the disease. The modern insecticides, D. D. T., Gammexane and Toxafeno have resolved the prophylactic problem. The author studies minutely the question of denomination, showing, by means of drawing and history, the origin of the diseases, both Norte American and Brazilian. The name Neotropic Exanthematic Typhus (in BRazil, Colombia, United States or India) should substitute the erroneous anme "Spotted Fever"; the disease is exanthematic, a very different thing. He formulates two hypotheses about these diseases: first - it passed from the neotropic to the neartic region, where it acquired individual properties; second - they developed independently in a more rmeote epoch, acquiring each its own characteristics. The disease is today rather of the neotropic than of the neartic region. As it also exists in India it cannot be named American exanthematic Typhus. The author finds it unnecessary to change the name to "Rikettsioses"; we do not call bacillar dysentery "Schigeloses"or malignant edema "Chlostridiose". The name exanthematic typhus is classic, precise, scientific, expressive and the denomination "neotropical" completes the localisation. The author thinks that all the diseases of the exanthematic typhus group, in the world had a simple primitive common origin. At first, the rickettsias or the virus had a free life, perhaps in the waters of the marshes or grass-lands. Later, in the struggle for life, came the parasitism of the plants. They became fitoparatifs. The mode of life...

Ensaios de micologia contribuição para o conhecimento das Esporotricoses

The author describes the forms found in material obtained from a human lesion localized in the mouth. The patient was a farmer and the diagnosis unknown. The author found yeast forms, some germinating, resembling those found in the mycosis of LUTZ. It was Sporotricosis and only once, in 96 cases, has the author found these fungous forms in the suspected material. The cultures in Sabouraud glucose and in many other media were positive for Sporotrichum, resembling that described by BENEDEK in 1926 (variety?) principally by the reddish colour of some cultures. The author thinks there is, perhaps, a mutation influenced by the surroundings and the light in certain cultures and that the dark pigment is the dominant one. He considers that the pigment will not do for the differentiation of species and that it is, really, Sporotrichum Schencki-Beurmanni. The author calls attention to the question of diagnosis and studies separately, each of the elements in which his opinion is based, finding that only a macro and microscopic study of the cultures decides the question.