Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte carriage, sex ratios and asexual parasite rates in Nigerian children before and after a treatment protocol policy change instituting the use of artemisinin-based combination therapies Grace Olusola Gbotosho; Akintunde Sowunmi; Christian Tientcha Happi; Titilope Modupe Okuboyejo PAGE: 685-690 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000600007

Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte carriage, emergence, clearance and population sex ratios in anaemic and non-anaemic malarious children Grace Olusola Gbotosho; Akintunde Sowunmi, ; Titilope Modupe Okuboyejo; Christian Tientcha Happi; Obaro Stanley Michael; Onikepe Abiola Folarin; Elsie Olufunke Adewoye PAGE: 562-569 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000500008

Enhancement of the antimalarial efficacy of amodiaquine by chlorpheniramine in vivo Akintunde Sowunmi ; Grace O Gbotosho; Christian T Happi; Ahmed A Adedeji; Olayinka M Bolaji; Fatai A Fehintola; Babasola A Fateye; Ayoade MJ Oduola PAGE: 417-420 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007005000038

Polymerase chain reaction of peripheral blood as a tool for the diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis in children Thiago Leite Fraga; Yvone Maia Brustoloni; Rosimar Baptista Lima; Maria Elizabeth Cavalheiros Dorval; Elisa Teruya Oshiro; Janaina Oliveira; Ana Lúcia Lyrio de Oliveira; Claude Pirmez PAGE: 310-313 | DOI: S0074-02762010000300011

Primary endemic Cryptococcosis gattii by molecular type VGII in the state of Pará, Brazil Wallace Raimundo A dos Santos; Wieland Meyer; Bodo Wanke; Solange PS Evangelista Costa; Luciana Trilles; Jose Luiz M Nascimento; Rita Medeiros; Bernardina Pernarrieta Morales; Claudia de Carvalho Falci Bezerra; Regina Célia Lima de Macêdo; Silvana O Ferreira; Gláucia Gonçalves Barbosa; Mauricio A Perez; Marília Martins Nishikawa; Márcia dos Santos Lazéra PAGE: 813-818 | DOI: S0074-02762008000800012

Genotypes of Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii as agents of endemic cryptococcosis in Teresina, Piauí (northeastern Brazil) Liline Maria Soares Martins; Bodo Wanke; Márcia dos Santos Lazéra; Luciana Trilles; Gláucia Gonçalves Barbosa; Regina Célia Lima de Macedo; Maria do Amparo Salmito Cavalcanti; Kelsen Dantas Eulálio; José Adail Fonseca de Castro; Adalberto Socorro da Silva; Fernando Ferraz do Nascimento; Viviane Alves Gouveia; Semiramis Jamil Hadad do Monte PAGE: 725-730 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000600012

Effects of pyrimethamine-sulphadoxine, chloroquine plus chlorpheniramine, and amodiaquine plus pyrimethamine-sulphadoxine on gametocytes during and after treatment of acute, uncomplicated malaria in children A Sowunmi; AA Adedeji; GO Gbotosho; BA Fateye; TC Happi PAGE: 887-893 | DOI: S0074-02762006000800011

Urban transmission of Chagas disease in Cochabamba, Bolivia N Medrano-Mercado; R Ugarte-Fernandez; V Butrón; S Uber-Busek; HL GuerraI; Tania C de Araújo-Jorge; R Correa-Oliveira PAGE: 423-430 | DOI: S0074-02762008000500003

Some features of primary and recrudescent amodiaquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum infections in Nigerian children Akintunde Sowunmi; Sulayman T Balogun; Grace O Gbotosho; Christian T Happi PAGE: 754-759 | DOI: S0074-02762008000800002

Respiratory viruses in children younger than five years old with acute respiratory disease from 2001 to 2004 in Uberlândia, MG, Brazil LF Costa; J Yokosawa; OC Mantese; TFM Oliveira; HL Silveira; LL Nepomuceno; LS Moreira; G Dyonisio; LMG Rossi; RC Oliveira; LZG Ribeiro; DAO Queiróz PAGE: 301-306 | DOI: S0074-02762006000300014

Molecular characterization of adenoviruses from children presenting with acute respiratory disease in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and detection of an isolate genetically related to feline adenovirus Lysa Nepomuceno Luiz; José Paulo Gagliardi Leite; Jonny Yokosawa; Bruno M Carneiro; Edson Pereira Filho; Thelma Fátima de Mattos Oliveira; Guilherme Ramos Oliveira e Freitas; Lourenço Faria Costa; Nayhanne Tizzo de Paula; Hélio Lopes da Silveira; Júlio César Nepomuceno; Divina Aparecida Oliveira Queiróz PAGE: 712-716 | DOI: S0074-02762010000500019

Acute diarrhoea in a community cohort of children who received an oral rotavirus vaccine in Northeast Brazil Sarah Cristina Fontes Vieira; Ricardo Queiroz Gurgel; Andrew Kirby; Isis Pinheiro Barreto; Liane Desiderio de Souza; Oderlan Carvalho Oliveira; Jailson de Barros Correia; Winifred Dove; Nigel A Cunliffe; Luis E Cuevas PAGE: 330-334 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000300012

Detection of human herpesvirus 7 infection in young children presenting with exanthema subitum Ivna de Melo Magalhães; Rebeca Vazquez Novo Martins; Renata Oliveira Vianna; Natalia Moysés; Larissa Alves Afonso; Solange Artimos Oliveira; Silvia Maria Baeta Cavalcanti PAGE: 371-373 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000300020

Performance of diagnostic biomarkers in predicting liver fibrosis among hepatitis C virus-infected Egyptian children Yasser E Nassef, Mones M Abu Shady, Essam M Galal, Manal A Hamed PAGE: 887-893 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130139

Parasite load and risk factors for poor outcome among children with visceral leishmaniasis. A cohort study in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2010-2011 Maria Vitória Assumpção Mourão, Antonio Toledo Jr,Luciana Inácia Gomes, Verônica Vieira Freire, Ana Rabello PAGE: 147-153 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140257

Epidemiological aspects of influenza A related to climatic conditions during and after a pandemic period in the city of Salvador, northeastern Brazil Rosangela de Castro Silva, Marilda Agudo Mendonça Siqueira, Eduardo Martins Netto, Jacione Silva Bastos, Cristiana Maria Nascimento-Carvalho, Ana Luisa Vilas-Boas, Maiara Lana Bouzas, Fernando do Couto Motta, Carlos Brites PAGE: 229-235 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140273

Prevalence and genetic diversity of astroviruses in children with and without diarrhea in São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil Yvone B Gabbay , Cláudia Regina NE da Luz, Ivete V Costa, Elielma L Cavalcante-Pepino, Maisa S Sousa, Krynssya K Oliveira, Ana Lucia Monteiro Wanzeller, Joana D'Arc P Mascarenhas, José Paulo G Leite, Alexandre C Linhares PAGE: 709-714

Effects of antifolates _ co-trimoxazole and pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine _ on gametocytes in children with acute, symptomatic, uncomplicated, Plasmodium falciparum malaria A Sowunmi, BA Fateye, AA Adedeji, FA Fehintola, AE Bamgboye, CP Babalola*, TC Happi, GO Gbotosho PAGE: 451-455

Strongyloides stercoralis and other Enteroparasites in Children at Uberlândia City, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil Eleuza Rodrigues Machado, Julia Maria Costa-Cruz PAGE: 161-164

Acute gastroenteritis and enteric viruses in hospitalised children in southern Brazil: aetiology, seasonality and clinical outcomes Sonia Maria Raboni, Guilherme Augusto Costa Damasio, Carla EO Ferreira, Luciane A Pereira, Meri B Nogueira, Luine R Vidal1, Cristina R Cruz, Sergio M Almeida PAGE: 428-435 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140066

Variation in haematological parameters in children less than five years of age with asymptomatic Plasmodium infection: implication for malaria field studies Adama Gansane, Issa Nebie Ouedraogo, Noelie Bere Henry, Issiaka Soulama, Esperance Ouedraogo, Jean-Baptiste Yaro, Amidou Diarra, Sombie Benjamin, Amadou Tidiani Konate, Alfred Tiono, Sodiomon Bienvenu Sirima PAGE: 644-650 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276108052013017

High prevalence of occult hepatitis B virus genotype H infection among children with clinical hepatitis in west Mexico Griselda Escobedo-Melendez, Arturo Panduro, Nora A Fierro, Sonia Roman PAGE: 728-737 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140058

The prevalence of norovirus, astrovirus and adenovirus infections among hospitalised children with acute gastroenteritis in Porto Velho, state of Rondônia, western Brazilian Amazon Maria Sandra Costa Amaral, Grecy Kelli Estevam, Marilene Penatti, Roger Lafontaine, Ian Carlos Gomes Lima, Paula Katharine Pontes Spada, Yvone Benchimol Gabbay, Najla Benevides Matos PAGE: 215-221 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760140381

Leprosy in children and adolescents under 15 years old in an urban centre in Brazil Selton Diniz Santos, Gerson Oliveira Penna, Maria da Conceição Nascimento Costa, Marcio Santos Natividade, Maria Glória Teixeira PAGE: 359-364 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160002

High prevalence of norovirus in children with sporadic acute gastroenteritis in Manaus, Amazon Region, northern Brazil Samya Thalita Picanço da Costa, Tulio Machado Fumian, Ian Carlos Gomes de Lima, Jones Anderson Monteiro Siqueira, Luciana Damascena da Silva, Juliana das Mercês Hernández, Maria Silvia Souza de Lucena, Tammy Kathlyn Amaral Reymão, Luana da Silva Soares, Joana D'Arc Pereira Mascarenhas, Yvone Benchimol Gabbay PAGE: 391-395 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160357