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Small ruminant production is a common agricultural activity worldwide. However, studies on the fungal microbiota of these animals are scarce. Therefore, this study aimed at isolating yeasts from goats and sheep and evaluating the antifungal susceptibility of the recovered Candida albicans. A total of 120 animals from farms in Ceará State, Brazil, were assessed in this study. The samples were collected from nasal, oral and rectal cavities with sterile swabs. Candida spp., Trichosporon spp. and Rhodotorula spp. were isolated from small ruminants. Resistance to three azole drugs was observed in C. albicans. In summary, Candida spp. were predominantly observed as part of the microbiota of the nasal, oral and rectal cavities of small ruminants, including azole-resistant strains of C. albicans.

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O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar as metas de socialização parental com relação ao desenvolvimento de seus filhos. Pretendeu-se, ainda, identificar as estratégias e fontes de ajuda que as mães e os pais buscam para o desenvolvimento dessas metas. Participaram deste estudo 18 homens e 18 mulheres, casados entre si, que tinham apenas um filho. Os resultados mostraram que as metas mais valorizadas por ambos os pais e mães foram o respeito aos outros, honestidade, êxito escolar, êxito pessoal e afetividade. Ao comparar as metas de socialização entre pais e mães, os resultados demonstraram mais semelhanças do que diferenças, verificando-se que os esforços tendem mais a ser no sentido de combinar responsabilidades na busca de uma co-paternidade (AU)

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Describimos en nuestro caso a una paciente conretraso mental incapacitada legalmente, bajo la tutelalegal de su madre. Había precisado varios ingresos hospitalariospor hiponatremia de probable origen facticio.La compleja interacción entre aspectos somáticos, psiquiátricosy relacionales del caso nos hicieron considerarcomo posibles diagnósticos diferenciales: causasorgánicas y farmacológicas de hiponatremia, deliriocompartido (folie à deux), síndrome de Munchausen porpoderes y un trastorno delirante materno. Este trabajodescribe y analiza cada una de estas posibilidades a laluz de las pruebas médicas disponibles y de la valoraciónpsicopatológica exhaustiva de la paciente y de suentorno familiar(AU)

We describe in this case a disabled patient affectedby mental retardation who was under her mother’s legalguardianship. She had been admitted at hospital in severalmoments as a consequence of hyponatremiaepisodes, with a probable factitious origin. In thispatient we were forced to consider several possible differentialdiagnoses due to the complex interactionbetween somatic, psychiatric and relational aspects,such as organic and pharmacological causes of hyponatremia,shared psychiatric disorder (folie à deux), Munchausensymdrome by proxy, and mother’s delusionaldisorder. This paper aims to describe and analyse eachone of this diagnostic possibilities under the light ofavailable medical evidences and after the exhaustivepsychopathological evaluation of our patient and herfamiliar environment(AU)

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A cross-sectional study was carried out on the residents of one in every four dwellings in the town of Barcelos (in the northern part of the State of Amazonas, on the right bank of the Rio Negro, 490 kilometers from Manaus by river), in order to evaluate social and sanitary conditions and specific indicators for intestinal parasites and Chagas' infection. During the survey, two questionnaires were applied, a household one to evaluate social and sanitary aspects, and an individual one, for social and epidemiological evaluation of the population conditions. A conglomerate family sample of 171 dwellings was studied. From each of the 658 habitants, a sample was requested for stool examination by Lutz sedimentation and Baermann-Moraes-Coutinho techniques modified by Willcox & Coura (1989), and blood was collected in filter paper for immunofluorescence test by Camargo (1966) and Souza & Camargo (1966) methods modified by Petana & Willcox (1975). The stool examination showed 69.4% of samples with one or more parasites. Ascaris lumbricoides was predominant with 51% of positivity and Entamoeba histolytica, although surveyed by a non-specific method, was present in 19.7%. Surprisingly, 20.1% of the 658 sera samples were reactive for T. cruzi antibodies at a dilution of 1:20 and 13.7% at 1:40. There was a strong correlation between this result and the level of human contact with wild triatomines, known locally as "piasava lice", and we succeeded in isolating by xenodiagnosis one strain of T. cruzi from one patient, a sixty-one-year old man (n. 209 -1), a native of the area, with positive serology for Chagas' disease and who worked in agriculture and transporting piasava and was very familiar with "piasava lice".