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Food Waste Perception of Workplace Canteen Users-A Case Study
Pires, I; Machado, J; Rocha, Ada; Martins, MLBackground: Food waste occurs in all stages of the food supply chain, namely in the food service sector. Understanding how much and why food is wasted and whether consumers are aware of it is essential to design effective interventions in this setting. This case study aims to compare the food waste perception by consumers and measure plate waste in a Portuguese workplace canteen in order to recognize if trained...
Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection in Twin Pregnancy
Carvalho, AA; Silva, CB; Martins, ML; Cassiano Santos, GCassianoCytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is one of the preeminent congenital viral infections, and despite its potential morbidity, uncertainty about its physiopathology, prevention and treatment remains until now. We report a case of a dichorionic and diamniotic twin pregnancy in which only one of the fetus had signs of being affected. The first twin had prenatal diagnosis of intrauterine growth restriction and hyperec...
Factors influencing food waste during lunch of fourth-grade school children
Martins, ML; Rodrigues, Sara; Cunha, LM; Rocha, AdaThis study aims to explore the factors that influence plate waste at lunches served in primary schools. Data was collected for all fourth-grade children attending 21 primary schools from the city of Porto (Portugal) (n = 463). Plate waste was evaluated by the weighing method and factors influencing plate waste were collected by observation of menu and canteen characteristics and through the application of a que...
Kerion Caused by Microsporum Audouinii in a Child
Fernandes, S; Amaro, C; Martins, ML; Inácio, J; Araújo, T; Vieira, R; Silvestre, MJ; Cardoso, JKerion celsi is rarely associated with Microsporum audouinii infection. We report the case of a 3-year-old girl with a kerion celsi caused by M. audouinii and successfully treated with oral terbinafine. Fungi identification was made by macro and microscopical colony morphology analyses and molecular (genotypic) studies.
Phaeohyphomycosis Caused by Alternaria Infectoria Presenting as Multiple Vegeta...
Cunha, D; Amaro, C; Vieira, MR; Martins, ML; Maduro, AP; Inácio, J; Afonso, A; Marques Pinto, G; Cardoso, JThe genus Alternaria is one of the most common black moulds and appears to be increasing as a causative agent of subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis, particularly among immunosuppressed patients. A 53-year-old patient who had received a kidney transplant presented with multiple verrucous lesions on the distal extremities. Positive histopathology and cultures, in addition to rDNA ITS region sequencing, identified the...
LAMA2 Gene Analysis in a Cohort of 26 Congenital Muscular Dystrophy Patients
Oliveira, J; Santos, R; Soares-Silva, I; Jorge, P; Vieira, E; Oliveira, ME; Moreira, A; Coelho, T; Ferreira, JC; Fonseca, MJ; Barbosa, C; Prats, JCongenital muscular dystrophy type 1A (MDC1A) is caused by mutations in the LAMA2 gene encoding laminin-alpha2. We describe the molecular study of 26 patients with clinical presentation, magnetic resonance imaging and/or laminin-alpha2 expression in muscle, compatible with MDC1A. The combination of full genomic sequencing and complementary DNA analysis led to the particularly high mutation detection rate of 96%...
Sinus tissue concentration of moxifloxacin after a single oral dose
Dinis, PB; Monteiro, MC; Martins, ML; Silva, N; Morais, JGMoxifloxacin is a new fluoroquinolone antimicrobial approved for the treatment of acute bacterial rhinosinusitis. In order to assess its distribution pattern into the paranasal sinuses, and specifically to evaluate how the histopathologic changes associated with chronic inflammation affect its tissue penetration, we conducted the present investigation, a randomized, open-label, single dose, sinus-tissue pharmac...