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Estudo do Paracoccidioides brasiliensis no município de Buriticupu, Amazônia maranhense
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2010-10-01) CALVET, Clélea de Oliveira; ISHAK, Ricardo; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5621101706909450
The objective of this study was to verify the presence of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis in the municipality of Buriticupu, located in the Amazon Maranhense. Intradermics tests were conducted with paracoccidioidine in 491 individuals, with 60 intradermics positive to the antigen. There was no statistically significant difference in the sample in relation to the positive test and the variables gender, socio culturals habits and level of education, although describe, the female has been the most frequent, totaling 33 patients, and that positive - reagents have habits that provide contact with the pathogen, and it was found to be the prevailing levels of schooling illiteracy (18 tested) and 1 st degree incomplete (26 tested). Fifty-one patients testing positive for intradermics to paracoccidoidine (85%) were the natural state of Maranhão. In reviewing the clinical data and laboratory records in general of the six patients diagnosed with the disease paracoccidioidomycosis, found that all were farmers with more than 10 years of residence in Buriticupu, with the presence of the fungus in the oral mucosa scraped the colouring of PAS and Gomori - Groccot, except for two patients: one with 36 months of treatment and another with 12 months of therapy, and without injury initial oral or later, both without reports of abandonment of treatment. We, therefore, that the exfoliative cytology is an easy way and low cost in aid of therapeutic control of patients.