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Tuberculosis: integrated studies for a complex disease 2050
Rezaei, Nima; Hosseini, Nastaran-Sadat; Saghazadeh, Amene; Fateh, Abolfazl; Duse, Adriano; Ahmad, Aijaz; Braley, Alexander E.; Tahta, AlicanTuberculosis (TB) has been a disease for centuries with various challenges [1]. Like other places where challenges and opportunities come together, TB challenges were the inspiration for the scientific community to mobilize different groups for the purpose of interest. For example, with the emergence of drug resistance, there has been a huge volume of research on the discovery of new medicines and drug delivery...
Microcephaly caused by or associated with congenital infections in the last 20 ...
Quintans, Maria Dolores Salgado; Bueno, Arnaldo Costa; Cardoso, Claudete Aparecida AraújoThis systematic review aimed to identify the pathogens causing or associated with congenital microcephaly in Brazil in the last 20 years due to the lack of official information by the Health Authorities and, as a consequence the uncertainty on the real infectious etiology of congenital microcephaly. A review protocol was prepared according to the PRISMA recommendation, using the PubMed, SciELO and LILACS databa...
Diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in children and adolescents: comparison of ...
Carvalho, Roberta Feijó; Carvalho, Anna Cristina Calçada; Velarde, Luis Guillermo Coca; Rossoni, Andrea Maciel de Oliveira; Aurilio, Rafaela BaroniThe aim of this study was to evaluate the concordance between two versions of the scoring system (2011 and 2019), recommended by the Brazilian Ministry of Health, for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in children and adolescents. A retrospective descriptive study was performed to assess the medical records of children and adolescents with PTB, in TB units from Brazilian cities located in Rio de Jane...
Review of the missed opportunities for the prevention of vertical transmission ...
Guimara˜es, Mariana Fernandes; Lovero, Kathryn Lynn; Avelar, Juliana Grego´rio de; Pires, Laís Lopes; Oliveira, Giovanna Rodrigues Teixeira deOBJECTIVE: The present literature review aims to highlight gaps in the treatment of preventative motherto-child HIV transmission and the risk factors in Brazil. METHODS: Among the 425 articles identified in SciELO and PubMed searches, 59 articles published between 1994 and 2016 were selected for reading and data extraction, and 33 articles were included in the present review. RESULTS: The rates of vertical HIV ...