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This paper studies the immunity and vaccine model presented by secondary education textbooks, which are considered a link between the curriculum and teaching practice. The objective of our study was to explore what contents are included in these models and how they are articulated. At the same time, a procedure based on the elaboration of concept maps is proposed to achieve this goal. In general, the textbook models in our study corpus present cellular processes of immunity focused on the individual rather than the collective. The conclusions of this research involve a partial diagnosis of how the teaching of immunology is approached in the classroom to design a model that allows the implementation of strategies and resources that involve students in the modelling of immunity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: To help the ophthalmologist in the study and update of the exciting area of ocular inflammation and uveitis. Concerning the most recent clinical entities, diagnostic techniques and therapeutic options, we propose a review of the main international journals: Ophthalmology, American Journal of Ophthalmology, Retina, Ocular Immunology and Inflammation and Journal of Ophthalmic Infection and Inflammation. Methods: A descriptive bibliographic review of the papers published in 2017 in the previously mentioned journals. Results: Sorted in the following categories: pediatric uveítis, scleritis, infectious uveítis, non-infectious uveítis, diagnostic and treatment, the main outcomes are analyzed. Conclusion: Last year 2017 offers numerous papers of the highest interest and relevance in the field of ocular inflammation and uveítis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sporotrichosis is a subcutaneous mycosis caused by a dimorphic complex of fungi called Sporothrix schenkii; it is a common disease in our country and has been reported in all continents. This paper presents a proposal of clinical classification of sporotrichosis based on its immunologic behavior, and which is divided into two groups, the first one hyperergic/normergic that presents a normal immune response to the intradermic antigen (sporotrichin M) and poor parasitic forms, and includes the most frequent clinical pictures: cutaneous-lymphatic and fixed-cutaneous; the second group or hypoergic/normergic, with low or no response to the intradermic antigen and presence of yeasts, includes the less frequent clinical pictures with opportunistic behavior: cutaneous-disseminated (hematogenous), cutaneous-superficial, osteoarticular, pulmonar and visceral. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Human toxocarosis is an important parasitic zoonosis caused by larval stages of Toxocara species, the roundworms from dogs and cats. Larval migration through different soft tissues in the human generates several clinical entities in the patient, such as visceral larva migrans, ocular toxocarosis, and neurotoxocarosis. Deinitive diagnosis by histopathological methods is very difficult or almost impossible and, nowadays, the diagnosis is usually made by clinical signs/symptoms, epidemiological background of the patient and the use of hematological and immunological tests which finally help to confirm the clinical suspicion of the illness. The purpose of this paper was to update the available knowledge on the use of different tools for both the diagnosis and following up of human toxocarosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]