Achados clínico-patológicos e métodos de controle da intoxicação por Pteridium (aquilinum) arachnoideum em uma propriedade do Rio Grande do Sul

Associação de Psiquiatria do Rio Grande do Sul Brasil

Objective: To investigate the association between aggression in the first 24 hours after admission and severity of psychopathology in psychiatric inpatients. Methods: This cross-sectional study included psychiatric patients admitted to Hospital Universitário de Santa Maria, in Santa Maria, southern Brazil, from August 2012 to January 2013. At their arrival at the hospital, patients were intervi...

Determinantes sociais e biológicos da mortalidade infantil em coorte de base populacional em Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul Social and biological determinants of infant mortality in population cohort in the city of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul State

TOXIN DETECTION IN Pasteurella multocida STRAINS ISOLATED FROM SWINE LUNGS IN THE STATE OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL, BRAZIL DETECÇÃO DA PRODUÇÃO DE TOXINA EM AMOSTRAS DE Pasteurella multocida ISOLADAS DE PULMÕES DE SUÍNOS NO RIO GRANDE DO SUL

Toxin production and the presence of the toxA gene was assayed in 24 Pasteurella multocida strains isolated from pigs with pneumonia and pleuritis in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Toxigenicity was assessed through a mouse lethality test and a PCR amplification assay was used to obtain a 300 bp product from the toxA gene. In order to demonstrate that the amplified product corresponded ...

Produção de frutos e distribuição espacial de angiospermas com frutos zoocóricos em uma Floresta Ombrófila Mista no Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

(Fruit production and spatial distribution of animal-dispersed angiosperms in a Mixed Ombrophilous Forest in State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil). We investigated, during 14 months, patterns of fruit production of animal dispersed angiosperms in a patch of Mixed Ombrophilous Forest (MOF) in the National Park of Aparados da Serra, State of Rio Grande do Sul, south Brazil. For a total of 570 indiv...

Waist circumference and waist circumference to height ratios of Kaingáng indigenous adolescents from the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Circunferência da cintura e circunferência da cintura/estatura entre adolescentes indígenas Kaingáng do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

The aim of this study was to describe the distribution of waist circumference (WC) and WC to height (WCTH) values among Kaingáng indigenous adolescents in order to estimate the prevalence of high WCTH values and evaluate the correlation between WC and WCTH and body mass index (BMI)-for-age. A total of 1,803 indigenous adolescents were evaluated using a school-based cross-sectional study. WCTH v...