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Seroprevalence and Risk Factors of STIs among Rejected Blood Donors at the Nati...
Sebastião, Cruz S.; Jandondo, Domingos; Vigário, João; António, Felícia; Sebastião, Joana M. K.; Silva, Maria L. S.; Pimentel, Victor; Abecasis, AnaFunding Information: This research was funded by the Funda\u00E7\u00E3o Calouste Gulbenkian (FCG), under the ENVOLVE Ci\u00EAncia PALOP program that funded the HITOLA project (Number 250466), Science and Technology Development Project (PDCT) within the scope of the MUTHIVAO project (Number 36 MESCTI/PDCT/2022), FCT MARVEL (PTDC/SAU-PUB/4018/2021), FCT GHTM-UID/04413/2020 and LA-REAL-LA/P/0117/2020. Funding Info...
Distribution of CCR5-Delta32, CCR2-64I, and SDF1-3’A host genetic factors in HI...
Sebastião, Cruz S.; Pimentel, Victor; Jandondo, Domingos; Sebastião, Joana M. K.; Sacomboio, Euclides N. M.; Pingarilho, Marta; Brito, MiguelFunding Information: This research was funded by the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (FCG), under the ENVOLVE Ciência PALOP program that funded the HITOLA project (Number 250466), FCT MARVEL (PTDC/SAU-PUB/4018/2021), FCT GHTM-UID/04413/2020 and LA-REAL-LA/P/0117/2020. Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2025.; Background: The HIV/AIDS pandemic remains a public health concern. Studies on host genetic polymorphisms...
Assessment of the yellow fever outbreak in Angola from December 2015 through De...
Manuel, Eusebio; Armando, António; Francisco, Moisés; Paixão, Joana; Aramburu, Javier; de Oliveira, Miguel dos Santos; Freitas, HelgaFunding Information: The authors thank technicians, Clinicians, and staff members from the Instituto Nacional de Investigação em Saúde (INIS), Direcção Nacional de Saúde Pública (DNSP), World Health Organization (WHO), and Médecins Sans Frontières for their technical support and assistance. Orçamento Geral de Estado (State General Budget) 2022 was allocated to the National Institute for Health Research (INIS) t...
Sociodemographic and clinical features related to hepatitis B virus infection a...
Jandondo, Domingos; Pimentel, Victor; Vigário, João; Vienga, Pedro; Sebastião, Joana M. K.; Mateus, Anabela; Comandante, Felícia; Sacomboio, EuclidesFunding Information: The authors are grateful to all study participants. Thanks to the research team of CISA/INIS and INS for the data collection, laboratory procedure, and technical/administrative support. The present project was financially supported by the Funda\u00E7\u00E3o Calouste Gulbenkian (FCG), under the ENVOLVE Ci\u00EAncia PALOP program that funded the HITOLA project (number 250466), AREF (AREF-312-...
HIV-1 diversity and pre-treatment drug resistance in the era of integrase inhib...
Sebastião, Cruz S.; Abecasis, Ana B.; Jandondo, Domingos; Sebastião, Joana M. K.; Vigário, João; Comandante, Felícia; Pingarilho, MartaFunding Information: We would like to thank all subjects who participated in this study and all staff of the National Blood Institute (Mr Alberto Sozinho, Ms Eunice Manico, and Ms Deodete Machado) and the research team of CISA/INIS for the data collection (Mr Pedro Vienga and Mr Agostinho Tchipeta) for the data collection, the laboratory technician (Ms. Anabela Mateus), and administrative staff members (Zinga D...
Continued low efficacy of artemether-lumefantrine in Angola in 2019
Dimbu, Pedro Rafael; Horth, Roberta; Cândido, Ana Luísa M.; Ferreira, Carolina Miguel; Caquece, Felismina; Garcia, Luzala Elisabeth ArmandoFunding Information: The study was funded by the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative and the Advanced Molecular Detection Initiative at the CDC. Funding Information: We thank all study staff and participants, Venceslau Mambi Pelenda, Jos? Bumba da Cunha, Oliveira Kiatoko, and Venkatachalam Udhayakumar. The findings and conclusions in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the off...
Genetic diversity and drug resistance of HIV-1 among infected pregnant women ne...
Sebastião, Cruz S; Neto, Zoraima; de Jesus, Carlos S; Mirandela, Marinela; Jandondo, Domingos; Couto-Fernandez, José C; Tanuri, Amilcar; Morais, JoanaMonitoring genetic diversity and drug resistance mutations (DRMs) is critical for understanding HIV epidemiology. Here, we report HIV-1 genetic diversity and DRMs in blood samples from 42 HIV-positive pregnant women naive to antiretroviral therapy (ART), in Luanda. The samples were subjected to nested-PCR, followed by sequencing of HIV-1 pol gene, targeting the protease and reverse transcriptase fragments. HIV-...