In recent decades, the number of people with invasive fungal infections has increased dramatically worldwide. These infections are often difficult to detect and treat and therefore pose a major threat to human health due ...

From the beginning, mankind realized that plants had healing power. This culture has been passed on for generations and has improved today, increasingly seeking to reduce the damage caused by conventional drugs and introduce ...

Technology has been essential in the drug planning process, as it enables the optimization of time and operating costs, but even with all this technology, the search for drugs is a rather difficult task. Medicinal chemistry ...

Community infection is indicated as that identified or incubated at admission, as long as it is not related to the previous hospitalization in the same hospital. Such infections can be caused by several microorganisms, ...

Empirical use of Medicinal Plants has always occurred since ancient civilizations, either for the treatment of chronic diseases or for the alleviation of pain. However, the use of herbal medicines for prophylactic, curative, ...

Florals are medicines produced through the energy of flowers, they are part of the Integrative and Complementary Practices. With conventional medicine, it is difficult to introduce alternative practices within the health ...

The cultivation and use of medicinal plants represent an important popular therapeutic resource that can be investigated through ethnobotanical studies as a means of rescuing the natural and cultural heritage. It also ...

This research is a retrospective study that describes the epidemiological characteristics of scorpion accidents in Paraíba State, Northeast Brazil, from 2007 to 2016. Data were collected at the Paraíba State Health Department, ...

Dermatophytes are infections that affect the keratinized tissues such as hair, nails and horny skin extract of humans and animals, caused by fungi called dermatophytes. These fungi are divided into three genera: Microsporum, ...

Congenital toxoplasmosis is an infection caused by Toxoplasma gondii, which can result in miscarriage and fetal malformations. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis in pregnant ...