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Prevalence of Nutritional Risk at Admission in Internal Medicine Wards in Portu...
Marinho, R; Pessoa, A; Lopes, M; Rosinhas, J; Pinho, J; Silveira, J; Amado, A; Silva, S; Bruno M P M Oliveira; Marinho, A; Jager Wittenaar, HIntroduction: Disease-related undernutrition is highly prevalent and requires timely intervention. However, identifying undernutrition often relies on physician judgment. As Internal Medicine wards are the backbone of the hospital setting, insight into the prevalence of nutritional risk in this population is essential. We aimed to determine the prevalence of nutritional risk in Internal Medicine wards, to ident...
Mycobacterium bovis infections in Portugal: Spoligotyping and MIRU-VNTR typing ...
Duarte, EL; Domingos, M; Amado, A; Botelho, ATuberculosis is still one of the most important infectious diseases worldwide. Although human cases due to Mycobacterium bovis, the aetiological agent of bovine tuberculosis (bTB), considerably decreased in most industrialized countries, the possible zoonotic health hazard and the considerable economic losses it brings justify significant efforts to eradicate the disease in several countries. In Portugal, altho...
Molecular epidemiological links between M. Bovis strains isolated from cattle a...
Duarte, EL; Domingos, M; Amado, A; Botelho, ABovine tuberculosis (bTB) prevalence has generally been decreasing for several years in Portugal due to an ongoing UE funded eradication programme. Nevertheless, new outbreaks have been intermittently recorded in bTB free herds, especially in two Eastern regions of Portugal (Beira Interior and Portalegre District part of Alentejo region), with no evident explanation referred in official epidemiological surveys....
Genotyping of Portuguese MTC (Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex) animal strains
Duarte, EL; Domingos, M; Amado, A; Botelho, ADuring five years (2002-2007), 295 MTC animal isolates, representing 25% of the total isolations from the bovine TB national eradication programme, were genotyped by spoligotyping and MIRU-VNTR typing. Main purposes were to assess the discriminatory power of different typing techniques and their usefulness for the Portuguese epidemiological scenario, to confirm transmission hypothesis between different cattle h...