Resumo em Português:

Os autores verificaram pelo método de diluição em placas de agar triptose e em caldo triptose, que a garlicina, antibiótico extraido do alho (Allium sativum), é bastante ativa sôbre brucelas. Em duas séries de experiências, 10 e 35 amostras de brucelas foram totalmente inibidas, nas concentrações de 0.03 UG/ml e 0.1 UG/ml de meio, respectivamente, utilizando-se duas amostras diferentes de garlicina. Essas concentrações correspondiam, respectivamente, a 0.25y/ml e 500y/ml. A disparidade dos resultados deve-se ao fato de que a atividade da garlicina, em relação ao pêso, varía de partida para partida. Três amostras de brucelas foram totalmente inibidas em seu desenvolvimento com 0.01 UG/ml, ou sejam, aproximadamente, 0.075y/ml de meio.

Resumo em Inglês:

Fourteen samples of sputum from fourteen lepers with pulmonary tuberculosis, were treated by PETROFF method and its sediments were smeared on LOEWENSTEIN medium and incubated at 37°C. These fourteen patients are under treatment by Streptomycin. They are advanced cases of active leprosy associated with pulmonary tuberculosis, according to X ray diagnosis. Between 15 to 45 days thirteen out of fourteen (92,85%) sputa gave cultures of acid-fast bacilli with all characteristics of KOCH'S bacillus, eugonic type. Nine out of thirteen positive cases produced eugonic colonies in all ten tubes smeared with each sample. These facts proved that Streptomycin did not affect the pulmonary flora. Three out of fourteen patients died within two months after positive cultures of KOCH'S bacillus. New fact - Three out of those thirteen positive patients gave non-chromogenic cultures, eugonic type, associated with chromogenic ones, quite similar to cultures of acid-fast bacilli isolated previously by the author from leprous material. One of the three patients who died showed in smear of fresh sputum only characteristics globies (globies of MARCHOUX not globi of NEISSER) of HANSEN'S Bacillus. Probably he died from leprous-pneumonia. The eugonic type cultures are being inoculated in guinea-pigs and the choromogenic ones, similar to leprosy-culture, will be inoculated in white rats and mice.

Resumo em Português:

1 - Em São Paulo, cidade da região climatica temperada brasileira, a escarlatina, no período 1940-44, ocorreu mais no outono, com o máximo em junho eo mínimo em outubro; maior o percentual de casos que couberam ao quadrimestre mais frio (junho a setembro) e ao menos chuvoso (maio a agosto), quando comparados com os apostos, que concidiram um com outro (dezembro a março). Nenhuma correlação de significação estatística pôde, porém, ser evidenciada entre variações mensais de incidência da escarlatina e variações, também mensais, de temperatura média e de pluviosodade. 2 - Nas cidades em que, pelo número ponderavel de casos ocorridos de variola, se permitiu qualquer estudo, para o período em apreço (Belém, Rio e S. Paulo), verifica-se, ter dominado a doença, uniformemente, no semestre correspondente ao inverno e primavera austrais e, em as duas, para que houve dados disponiveis de humidade absoluta, no quadrimestre menos humido. Embora com essa restrição, o elemento humidade absoluta pareceu ter maior peso, em face das correlações, de significação estatística, obtidas entre os valores médios mensais (referentes ao mês anterior) e os coeficientes mensais de morbidade pela doença: - 0.38 ± 0.11 e - 0.50 ± 0.10, respectivamente em Belem e no Rio. Com temperatura média, ainda no mês anterior, obtiveram-se correlações negativas para o Rio e S. Paulo (- 0.48 ± 0.10 e - 0.30 ± 0.12). 3 - O sarampo, nas cidades - dp grupo das 7 escolhidas - para que se obtiveram dados (Belem, Recife, Salvador, Rio, Curitiba e Porto Alegre), mostrou-se de maior incidencia no quadrimestre mais fresco do ano, quando comparado com o oposto. Evidenciou-se, ademais, ser nitidamente do inverno, nas duas cidades situadas em zona temperada; e, do trimestre correspondente, em duas outras (Salvador e Rio), justamente, das quatro da região tropical, as que ficam mais distantes do equador. Em todas as cidades trabalhadas, com exceção de Bele, dominou ainda no quadrimestre de menor humidade absoluta, qaundo comparado com o oposto. Ambos os fatores, plausivelmente pois, parecem ter influencia sôbre a incidência do sarampo, que se eleva quando baixam temperatura e humidade absoluta. De fato, obtiveram-se correlações negativas de significação estatistica, entre os coeficientes mensais de morbidade e os valores medios de temperatura mensal no mesmo mês (1) e no anterior (2), em 4 cidades: Recife, - 0.26 ± 0.12 (1); Salvador, - 0.36 ± 0.11 (1) e - 0.45 ± 0.10 (2); Rio, - 0.50 ± 0.10 (1) e - 0.60, sendo t = 5.72 (2); Porto Alegre, - 0.38 ± 0.11 (2). Com os valores medios mensais de humidade absoluta, no mês (1) e no anterior (20 mostrou-se, por outro lado, haver associação reciproca dos referidos coeficientes mensais de morbidade em: Recife, - 0.27 ± 0.12 (1); Salvador, - 0.29 ± 0.12 (1) e - 0.31 ± 0.12 (2); Rio, - 0.53 ± 0.09 (1) e - 0.68, sendo t = 7.08 (2); Porto Alegre, - 0.35 ± 0.12 (2).

Resumo em Inglês:

After pointing out some of the aspects not yet well known of scarlet fever epidemiology in Brazil, the A. shows that during period 1940-44 the disease in the city of S. Paulo prevailed mostly in the austral autumn season (april-june); however no correlation, statistically significant, could be obtained comparing monthly waves of temperature and corresponding waves of the disease. Such a correlation has been found out for small-pox, in the same fiver-years period, both in Rio (-0.48 ± 0.10) and S. Paulo (-0.30 ± 0.12); and with absolute humidity variations (also in the previous month) in Belem (-0.38 ± 0.11) and Rio (-0.50 ± 0.10) - no data about A. H. being available from S. Paulo, Belem, Rio and S. Paulo showed a small-pox prevalence in the austral winter-spring seasons. Both in tropical cities (Belem, Recife, Salvador, Rio) and in temperate ones (Curitiba and Porto Alegre) - in S. Paulo the disease is not subjected to compulsory notification - measles distribution by four-months period --selected in accordance with the highest or lowest values of mean temperature and absolute humidity - induced to suppose that the disease was more uniformly associated with a low temperature. Several correlation coefficients statistically significant have been indeed obtained, between monthly morbidity rates and temperature variations in the same month (Recife - 0.26 ± 0.12, Salvador - 0.36 ± 0.11, Rio - 0.50 ± 0.10) and in the previous one (Salvador - 0.45 ± 0.10, Rio - 0.60 t = 5.72 and Porto Alegre - 0.38 ± 0.11); but also such coefficients have been found out between the same rates and absolute humidity variations in the same month (Recife - 0.27 ± 0.12, Salvador - 0.29 ± 0.12, Rio - 0.53 ± 0.09) and in the previous one (Salvador - 0.31 ± 0.12, Rio - 0.68 t = 7.08 and Porto Alegre - 0.35 ± 0.12).

Resumo em Inglês:

Hyla claresignata Lutz & Lutz, 1939, is a large species apparently not closely allied to the other known Brazilian hylas. It is characterized by the very small tympanum; the head is short and the snout rounded; the legs are long, the hands and feet unusually large, the latter extensively webbbed. The specific name is derived from the insular, irregular, or roughly triangular, dark spots, with a light halo, found mostly in the dorso-lateral region and on the legs. It belongs to the rain-forest fauna of the Marítime Range. The adult is a bromeliad-dweller and the tadpole rhyacophilous. DESCRIPTION. Vomerine teeth in two separate, oblique, groups, behind the large choanae, parallel to the posterior half of their inner border. Tongue entire, short, very broad and hardly free behind. Snout short, rounded, with distinct canthus rostralis and gradually sloping loreal region. Eye very large and prominent, its horizontal diameter almost equal to the distance between its anterior corner and the tip of the snout. Tympanum very small, less than one third of the diameter of the eye, but distinct, partly covered by a short, heavy ridge. Lateral fingers less than one third webbed; fourth finger slightly longer than the second, just reaching the base of the disk of the third; subarticular tubercles well developed; an angular pollex rudiment, more noticeable in the males. Toes almost completely webbed, the edge of the web inserted at the base of the disk on the third and the fifth; an inner metatarsal tubercle. Skin smooth above, granular beneath, on the throat minutely so. No dermal appendage on the hell. Habit robust, head broader than long, body rather heavy, slightly narrowed in the postaxillary region. Legs long, the tibiotarsal articulation reaching beyond the tip of the snout when adpressed. Type (female): 61 mm. (Fig. 1.) DIAGNOSIS of TADPOLE (by G. Orton). "A large specialized, mountain-stream tadpole, with wide head an elongated, flattened snout, greatly enlarged lips and high tooth formula. Eyes dorsal. Spiracle sinistral, projecting, situated far back on side. Anus dextral. Tooth formula 8/12 to 9/14 in fully grown larvae. Tail with a prominent, vertical dark band across musculature and fins; a second concentration of dark pigment near tip of tail, may or may not form a similar but narrower band. Maximum known total length: 60mm.; head and body length 25mm. (Figs. 6 e 7). For further details see Lutz & Lutz, 1939 and Lutz B. & Orton G. 1946.

Resumo em Inglês:

The autopsy of a case of CHAGAS'S disease or American tryponosomiasis (a girl, 5 years old), dead in the 22nd day of illness is reported. The anatomic diagnosis was a follows: Acute diffuse chagasic nyocarditis. Chagasic encephalitis. Chagasic lymphadenitis of the right posterior auricular node. Tuberculosis of the bronchial and pulmonary nodes. Chronic passive hyperemia and atelectasia of the lungs. Chronic passive congestion and hemorrhages of the spleen. Serous hepatitis. Parotiditis. Edema of the right eyelids. Bilateral hydrothorax. Hydropericardium. Hydroperitoneum. The morphology of Schizotrypanum cruzi in the myocardium is considered. Besides agglomerates with typical small oval or round intracellular bodies, pre-flagellate and flagellate organisms, others are found in which the great amount of parasites and marked pressure exerted by them against each other render very difficult their identification; sometimes the similitude of such agglamerates to Toxoplasma is striking (Fig. 1 and 1 A). In such a case, the structure of the blepharoplast (Fig. 1 and IA), usually preserved, is profitable and allows the identification of the pre-flagellate and flagellate forms of Schizotrypanum cruzi. Most of the small sensitive nerves in the epicardium shows mononuclear infiltration of the perineurium (perineuritis, Figs. 12-14). Microscopically there is extensive Zenker's degeneration (Figs. 6-8) and parasitism of the heart muscle fibers, marked cellular infiltration of the interstitial connective tissue, which are found in the ordinary musculature of every chamber of the heart (Figs. 10-11) as well as in Tawara's node (Fig. 9), main bundle (Fig. 2) and right (Fig. 4) and left (Fig. 5) septal divisions of the bundle of His, and perineuritis. Those anatomic changes are associated to an abnormal electrocardiogram presenting some similitude to that of an anemic infarct of the anterior wall of the heart and which will be discussed elsewhere (unpublished paper by Dias, Nobrega & Laranja).

Resumo em Português:

O APG ministrado subcutaneamente a camondongos normais em injeção unica após 24 hs produz um aumento do peso total dos rins e uma baixa da fosfatase alcalina destes orgãos. Os valores normais foram baseados em experiencias feitas em 54 camondongos e comparados com outros obtidos com 88 camondongos injetados com doses crescentes de APG (0,5~500mg/k). A fosfatase alcalina foi determinada por uma modificação do metodo colorimetro de King & Armstrong. A retenção e precipitação do APG nos estudosrenais parece ser responsavel pelo aumento de peso e a abaixa das fosfatase dos rins.

Resumo em Inglês:

PGA when administered subcutaneously into normal mice in a single injection produces after 24 hours an affective increase of the total weight and a decrease of the "alkaline" phosphatase of the kidneys. Normal values based on 54 mice are reported and compared with those obtained from 88 mice injected with graded doses of PGA (0.5mg/Kg to 500mg/Kg body weight. The "alkaline" phosphatase was determined by a slight modification of the colorimetric method of king & Armstrong using disodium phenylphosphate as a substrate. It is suggested that the retention and precipitation of PGA in the renal tubuli could be responsible for the increased weight and decreased phosphatase activity of the kidneys.

Resumo em Inglês:

Surgical removal of large amounts of hepatic tissue in male albino rats results in a rapid and conspicuous raise in cellular nuclear volumes. Measurements were made exclusively in resting nuclei. This volume variation is transitory. Nuclear volumes return to the normal value withins 6 days of restoration. The higher value are abserved 48 hours after the hepatic removal, indicating probably that this effect is due to hydration of the nucei, as occurs in the cytoplasm. This hydration could be correlated to the mitotic activity of the renmant tissue since a peak of mitoses parallels the changes in the nuclear volumes.