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Clinical Trials in Portugal: Past and Future. Position Paper from the Colleges ...

Clinical Trials in Portugal: Past and Future. Position Paper from the Colleges ...

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Update on infections with Thelazia callipaeda in European wildlife and a report...

Thelazia callipaeda, also known as the “oriental eye worm”, is a zoonotic parasitic nematode with a wide range of hosts, particularly wild and domestic carnivores, but also lagomorphs and humans. Currently, ocular thelaziosis presents an expanding distribution range throughout Europe, including Portugal. This study provides an update on T. callipaeda infection reports (30 studies) in European wildlife comprisin...

Correction to: Nonmetastatic Castration‑Resistant Prostate Cancer: Current Chal...

Estimating sequence diversity of prion protein gene (PRNP) in Portuguese popula...

Among the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), chronic wasting disease (CWD) in cervids is now a rising concern in wildlife within Europe, after the detection of the first case in Norway in 2016, in a wild reindeer and until June 2022 a total of 34 cases were described in Norway, Sweden and Finland. The definite diagnosis is post-mortem, performed in target areas of the brain and lymph nodes. Sampl...

Seropositivity for Coxiella burnetii in wild boar (Sus scrofa) and red deer (Ce...

Q fever is caused by the pathogen Coxiella burnetii and is a zoonosis that naturally infects goats, sheep, and cats, but can also infect humans, birds, reptiles, or arthropods. A survey was conducted for the detection of antibodies against C. burnetii in a sample of 617 free-ranging wild ruminants, 358 wild boar (Sus scrofa) and 259 red deer (Cervus elaphus), in east–central Portugal during the 2016–2022 huntin...

First morphological and molecular isolation of Talaromyces marneffei in beech m...

Talaromyces marneffei is a zoonotic fungus that mostly infects immunocompromised individuals. For the first time, this fungus was isolated in an adult beech marten (Martes foina) hit by a car, found dead in Penamacor, Portugal. During the necropsy, different samples (skin, fur, lymph nodes, lung, spleen, kidneys, and brain) were collected and processed for microbiology (including mycology) and molecular biology...

Prevalence and risk factors for hepatitis E virus in wild boar and red deer in ...

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a zoonotic foodborne virus with an annual infection prevalence of 20 million human cases, which seriously affects public health and economic development in both developed and developing countries. To better understand the epidemiology of HEV in Central Portugal, a cross-sectional study was conducted from 2016 to 2023 with sera samples from wild ungulates. The seroprevalence and risk f...

Seroepidemiological study of Hepatitis E virus (Hev) infection in large game an...

Seroepidemiological study of Hepatitis E virus (Hev) infection in large game animals in the Centre of Portugal.

Talaromyces marneffeiisolated from nasal swabs in Portugal

Mycobiota are essential to the health of any living being, creating a balanced and complex interaction between bacteria, the immune system, and the tissue cells of the host. Talaromyces marneffei (also known as Penicillium marneffei) is a dimorphic fungus, endemic in South Asia, which often causes a life-threatening systemic fungal infection (called penicilliosis), particularly in immunocompromised hosts. Nasal...