Maria Rita de Cassia Costa Monteiro

TL;DR: Investigation of whether a specific antivenom raised against the venom of B. atrox, the most important Amazon snake species from a medical point of view, was necessary for the treatment of patients in this region indicated that both antivenoms were equally effective in reversing all signs of envenoming detected both clinically and in the laboratory.

TL;DR: The victims of scorpion envenomation notified at Santarem, present a different clinical and regional behavior from previous reports in Brazil and Amazonia regions.

TL;DR: Estes resultados indicam a efetiva transmissao do virus C atraves da exposicao percutânea e reafirmam o grande potencial de risco para hepatite C contido no uso injetavel de drogas ilicitas.

TL;DR: Multivariate analysis showed no association between hepatitis B virus infection and illicit injectable drug use.

TL;DR: Agarwal et al. as discussed by the authors investigated a prevalencia dos virus das hepatites B (HBV) e D (HDV), in two aldeias of Haiti, Apyterewa and Xingu, and avaliar o impacto da vacinacao contra a hepatite B, iniciada nessas aldeia em 1995, foram coletadas, em 2004, 258 amostras de soro for analise dos marcadores sorologicos das liverites B and D, por tecnicas