Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PAO1) is an opportunistic pathogen, lethal in immunocompromised individuals. The clinical management of PAO1 infections still depends deeply on antibiotic therapy. However, this therapy has been alarmingly overpowered by growing bacterial resistance mechanisms over the years. One of these bacterial mechanisms is quorum sensing (QS). QS is involved in the production of biofilm, rhamnolipi...
O presente documento reflete o trabalho de estágio realizado num laboratório multidisciplinar e multicêntrico, o Laboratório de biotecnologia Médica e Industrial (LaBMI). Este laboratório situa-se no Porto Research, Technology and Innovation Center (PORTIC) do Instituto Politécnico do Porto. O LaBMI acolhe ainda, uma start-up embrionária, a AP Factory, acompanhada e com o apoio de técnico e de gestão da STARTUP...
The goal of this research is to understand the occurrence of violence during healthcare training, its origins, vulnerable groups and mechanisms by which such violence can occur. The study was divided into a survey of the literature on the occurrence of violence in healthcare training and a qualitative research, in which a course of the health area was analyzed - dentistry. Interviews and focus group were conduc...