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Repercussion of COVID-19 pandemic on Brazilians’ quality of life : a nationwide...
Teotônio, Isabella Márcia Soares Nogueira; Hecht, Mariana Machado; Castro, Luiz Claudio Gonçalves de; Gandolfi, Lenora; Pratesi, RiccardoThe COVID-19 outbreak, caused by Sars-Cov-2, was officially declared a global pandemic in February 2020, after an unexpected increase in hospitalization and mortality. When faced with this new disease, social and physical distancing and quarantine emerged as solutions to reduce virus transmission. This article examines the quality of life (QoL) of the Brazilian population’s during this period of isolation, due ...
Congenital Chagas disease: alert of research negligence
Dias, Nayra; Carvalho, Bruna Caroline Véras de; Araújo, Nadjar Nitz Silva Lociks de; Hagström, Luciana; Vital, Tamires Emanuele; Hecht, Mariana MachadoINTRODUCTION: Chagas disease (CD), a neglected endemic disease in Latin America, has acquired new epidemiological characteristics with an increase in the importance of alternative transmission routes such as congenital transmission. We evaluated the scientific research on this subject. METHODS: We searched the Scielo, BVS, and PubMed databases from 2006 to 2017. RESULTS: We identified a small number of publishe...
Improving the reference standard for the diagnosis of canine visceral leishmani...
Teixeira, Ana Izabel Passarella; Silva, Debora Marcolino; Vital, Tamires Emanuele; Nitz, Nadjar; Carvalho, Bruna Caroline Véras deBACKGROUND Studies aimed at validating canine visceral leishmaniasis diagnostic tests present heterogeneous results regarding test accuracy, partly due to divergences in reference standards used and different infection evolution periods in animals. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of the rapid test-dual path platform (TR-DPP) (Biomanguinhos®), EIE-Leishmaniose-Visceral-Canina-Biomanguinhos (E...
The first Acanthamoeba keratitis case in the Midwest region of Brazil: diagnosi...
Alves, Daniella de Sousa Mendes Moreira; Gonçalves, Gustavo Souza; Moraes, Aline Silva; Alves, Luciano Moreira; Carmo Neto, José Rodrigues doWe report an Acanthamoeba keratitis case associated with the use of contact lens in a 28-year-old female from Brasília, Brazil. Samples from corneal scraping and contact lens case were used for culture establishment, PCR amplification, and partial sequencing (fragments of ~400kb) of small subunit rDNA; both culture and PCR were positive. The sequence analyses of the cornea and of isolates from the contact lens ...
Expanding the knowledge about Leishmania species in wild mammals and dogs in th...
Cardoso, Rebecca Martins; Araújo, Nadjar Nitz Silva Lociks de; Romero, Gustavo Adolfo Sierra; Souza, Thaís Tâmara Castro Minuzzi; Dietrich, Ana GabrielaBackground: Wild, synanthropic and domestic mammals act as hosts and/or reservoirs of several Leishmania spp. Studies on possible reservoirs of Leishmania in different areas are fundamental to understand host-parasite interactions and develop strategies for the surveillance and control of leishmaniasis. In the present study, we evaluated the Leishmania spp. occurrence in mammals in two conservation units and th...
Vector-borne transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi among captive Neotropical primat...
Souza, Thaís Tâmara Castro Minuzzi; Nitz, Nadjar; Knox, Monique Britto; Reis, Felipe; Hagström, Luciana; Cuba, César Augusto CubaBackground: Neotropical primates are important sylvatic hosts of Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas disease. Infection is often subclinical, but severe disease has been described in both free-ranging and captive primates. Panstrongylus megistus, a major T. cruzi vector, was found infesting a small-primate unit at Brasília zoo (ZooB), Brazil. ZooB lies close to a gallery-forest patch where T. cru...
Transferência horizontal de seqüências de minicírculos de kDNA de Trypanosoma c...
Hecht, Mariana MachadoTese (doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Medicina, 2008.; Neste estudo, nós confirmamos e estendemos o conhecimento sobre a transferência de minicírculos de kDNA de Trypanosoma cruzi para o genoma humano. Foram analisadas cinco famílias cujos parentais (G0) eram portadores da doença de Chagas. Foi possível observar a integração de kDNA de T. cruzi no genoma de todos os chagásicos estudados. Conco...