Oui, les conditions de vie insalubres peuvent favoriser la transmission des parasites.
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Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Institute of Global Health of Barcelona (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain; Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases, REIPI, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: jvila@clinic.cat.
Publications dans "Infections parasitaires du système nerveux central" :
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Institute of Global Health of Barcelona (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain; Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases, REIPI, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
Publications dans "Infections parasitaires du système nerveux central" :
Department of Molecular Microbiology, Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, Barcelona, Spain; School of Medicine, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; Spanish Network of Epidemiology and Public Health, CIBERESP, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
Publications dans "Infections parasitaires du système nerveux central" :
Laboratório de Vírus, Departamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
Publications dans "Infections parasitaires du système nerveux central" :
Emergency Radiology Section, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Travessa da R. Dr. Ovídio Pires de Campos, 75 - Cerqueira César, São Paulo - SP 05403-010, Brazil. Electronic address: thiago.miranda@hc.fm.usp.br.
Publications dans "Infections parasitaires du système nerveux central" :
Neuroradiology Section, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Travessa da R. Dr. Ovídio Pires de Campos, 75 - Cerqueira César, São Paulo - SP 05403-010, Brazil; Grupo Fleury, Av. Gen. Valdomiro de Lima, 508 - Jabaquara, São Paulo - SP, 04344-070. Brazil.
Publications dans "Infections parasitaires du système nerveux central" :
In a rapidly evolving global landscape characterized by increased international travel, migration, and ecological shifts, this study sheds light on the emergence of protozoal and helminthic infections...
Emerging and re-emerging central nervous system (CNS) infections are a major public health concern in the tropics. The reasons for this are myriad; climate change, rainfall, deforestation, increased v...
In recent years, multiple acute encephalitis outbreaks have been caused Nipah, which carries a high case fatality. Arboviral infections, predominantly dengue, chikungunya and Zika are re-emerging incr...
A syndromic and epidemiological approach to CNS infections in the tropics is essential to plan appropriate diagnostic tests and management. Rapid diagnostic tests facilitate early diagnosis and thus h...
Fusarium species are an increasingly important cause of meningitis and invasive disease in immunocompromised patients as well as in otherwise healthy patients as observed in two recent healthcare-asso...
Incidence of Fusarium species meningitis and invasive fusariosis are increasing. Molecular techniques are improving the speed of diagnosis. New antifungal agents in development show good in vitro acti...
The overall incidence of CNS fusariosis is increasing with a continued poor prognosis, but new diagnostic and treatment modalities are in development which may offer improvements....
Central nervous system vasculitis (CNSV) is a group of disorders leading to inflammatory vasculopathy within the brain, spinal cord, and leptomeninges. CNSV is divided into primary angiitis of the cen...
The extracellular matrix protein tenascin-C has been discovered to be an important regulator of the response to tissue injury and repair in cerebrovascular diseases. This study investigated if tenasci...
Tenascin-C concentration in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was measured in patients, (>18 years) with and without CNS infections, admitted to a department of infectious diseases in Denmark. CSF tenasci...
174 patients were included of which 140 were diagnosed with a CNS infection and 34 where this was ruled out (control group). Median CSF tenascin-C levels were significantly higher among patients with ...
Levels of CSF tenascin-C are higher among patients with bacterial and viral neuroinfections, already on admission, but exhibit only a modest correlation with baseline indices of neuroinflammation. CSF...
Nosocomial central nervous system (CNS) infections with carbapenem- and colistin-resistant Gram-negative and vancomycin-resistant Gram-positive bacteria are an increasing therapeutic challenge. Here, ...
Central nervous system (CNS) viral infections are critical causes of morbidity and mortality in children; however, comprehensive data on etiology is lacking in developing countries such as Indonesia. ...
Patients with Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) are rarely tested for the presence of neurovirulent viruses other than tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV); however, such coinfections could be of clinical i...
Many newly emerging and re-emerging viruses have neuroinvasive potential, underscoring viral encephalitis as a global research priority. Upon entry of the virus into the CNS, severe neurological life-...
Fungal infections of the central nervous system (FI-CNS) are a problematic and important medical challenge considering that those most affected are immunocompromised. Individuals with systemic cryptoc...