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Persistence of IgG COVID-19 antibodies

Funding Information: This research was funded by Fundação Álvaro Carvalho (funding manager), Câmara Municipal de Cascais, Fundação Vox Populi, Fundação Manuel Viegas Guerreiro, and Claude and Sofia Foundation. Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2023 Carvalho, Henriques, Queirós, Rodrigues, Mendonça, Rodrigues, Canhão, de Sousa, Antunes and Guimarães.; Background and aim: The kinetics of antibody production in res...

Towards a global perspective of environmental health

Funding Information: Funding: This research was funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, grant number UIDB/04295/2020 and UIDP/04295/2020. Funding Information: This research was funded by Funda??o para a Ci?ncia e a Tecnologia, grant number UIDB/04295/2020 and UIDP/04295/2020. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.; Environmental health is at the intersection bet...

Handling of fresh vegetables

In developing countries, markets are the main supply of horticultural products to populations, but this can pose a public health challenge due to the risk of the fecal-oral transmission of gut pathogens. This transmission is strongly associated with inadequate public sanitation or low standards of personal and domestic hygiene, and their prevalence can cause gastrointestinal diseases, which are the third leadin...

Therapeutic potential of caspofungin combined with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazol...

Pneumocystis pneumonia (PcP) is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in immunocompromised patients. There are limited alternative therapeutic choices to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) which is the standard first line therapy/prophylaxis for PcP. The efficacy of low doses of caspofungin and caspofungin in association with TMP-SMX standard-prophylactic dose was evaluated in an experimental model of P...

Direct treatment costs of HIV/AIDS in Portugal

Baseline susceptibility of primary HIV-2 to entry inhibitors

Background: The baseline susceptibility of primary HIV-2 to maraviroc (MVC) and other entry inhibitors is currently unknown. Methods: The susceptibility of 19 HIV-2 isolates obtained from asymptomatic and AIDS patients and seven HIV-1 clinical isolates to the fusion inhibitors enfuvirtide (ENF) and T-1249, and to the coreceptor antagonists AMD3100, TAK-779 and MVC, was measured using a TZM-bl cell-based assay. ...

Cryptosporidium felis and C. meleagridis in persons with HIV, Portugal