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Infectious diseases in paediatric pathology: experience from a developing country

2008; Elsevier BV; Volume: 40; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00313020701816357

1465-3931

Luíz César Peres, Fabiano Pinto Saggioro, Leônidas Braga Dias, Venâncio Avancini Ferreira Alves, Roosecelis Araújo Brasil, Veridiana Ester Dias de Barros Luiz, Luciano Neder, Fernando Colonna Rosman, Raul Negrão Fleury, Somei Ura, Ana Tereza Orsi, Carolina Talhari, Luíz Carlos de Lima Ferreira, Simone G. Ramos, Luís Rey, Flor Ernestina Martínez-Espinosa, Franklin Simões de Satana Filho, Maria Irma Seixas Duarte, José Roberto Lambertucci, Leila Chimelli, Patrícia Sammarco Rosa, Andréa de Faria Fernandes Belone,

Virology and Viral Diseases

Infectious and parasitic diseases have always challenged man. Although many of them are typically seen in some areas of the world and can be adequately managed by just improving socioeconomic status and sanitary conditions, they are still quite prevalent and may sometimes be seen outside their original geographical areas. Human migration due to different reasons, tourism, blood transfusion and solid organ transplantation has created new concerns for health professionals all over the world. If not for diagnostic purposes, at least these tropical and infectious diseases should be largely known because their epidemiology, pathogenesis, host/parasite interaction, inflammatory and reparative responses are quite interesting and teach us about human biology. Curiosity is inherent to pathology practice and so we are compelled to look for things other than tumours or degen- erative diseases. This review focuses on infectious and parasitic diseases found in a developing country and brings up-to-date information on diseases caused by viruses (dengue, yellow fever), bacteria (typhoid fever, leprosy), parasites (Chagas' disease, cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis, amoebiasis, Capillaria hepatica, schistoso- miasis, cysticercosis) and caused by fungi (paracoccidioido-mycosis, cryptococcosis, histoplasmosis) that may be useful for pathologists when facing somewhat strange cases from developing countries.