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Clinical and epidemiological profile of elderly people with HIV: A sample from ...
Marques, Isadora Caixeta; Melo, Ana Luísa de Castro; Figueiredo, Bárbara Queiroz de; Santos, Giovanna Martins; Cyrino, Larissa SilvaIntroduction: Aging contributes to a greater susceptibility of the elderly to sexually transmitted infections (STIs), due to organic changes that occur at this stage of life and to the prolongation of sexual life. Objective: In this sense, this research aimed to evaluate the clinical and epidemiological profile of elderly people infected with HIV. Methodology: This is a documentary, retrospective study, which h...
Covid-19 mRNA vaccines: a new window opens in the field of immunology
Figueiredo, Bárbara Queiroz de; Ricardo Neto, Antônio; Coury, Bruno Faria; Araújo, Clarisse Queiroz Lima de; Queiroz, Júlia de MendonçaIntroduction: Messenger RNA (mRNA) technology is a platform that has been investigated for many years. The emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic forced scientists from all over the world to unite around the development of several vaccines, having bet on those that are considered conventional, that is, based on the virus itself, but inactivated, or on its fragments, cultivating them in the laboratory. Objective: To...
Acute HIV infection with atypical clinical and laboratory presentation: case re...
Cyrino, Larissa Silva; Figueiredo, Bárbara Queiroz de; Lopes Júnior, Célio Honório; Marques, Isadora Caixeta; Cyrino, Luana SilvaIntroduction: Infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) represents, in Brazil and in the world, a public health problem: estimates show that, in 2017, 42,420 new cases of HIV were diagnosed in Brazil. Despite these high rates, it is noted that underdiagnosis is still a problem: data show that, in the United States, almost 15% of people infected with the HIV virus are unaware of this diagnosis. Objec...