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A vida no nosso planeta depende dos microrganismos
Academia das Ciências de Lisboa; Correia, Isabel Sá; Freitas, Helena; Andreote, Fernando Dini; Keller-Costa, Tina; Portugal, António; Nina, Jaime
A Difficult Diagnosis of Plasmodium ovale Malaria
Santos-Reis, Ana; Nina, JaimeMalaria is a major cause of suffering, disease, and death worldwide and is considered the most important of all human parasitic diseases. Malaria is still endemic in most tropical and sub-tropical areas and globalization has contributed to an increase of imported cases around the world. We report a Plasmodium ovale infection in a traveler with recent return from a long land trip across West Africa. He declared ...
Ebolavirosis: a 2014 Review for Clinicians
Nina, JaimeEbolavirosis, like Marburgvirosis, are African zoonosis, and for both the primary animal reservoir are bats. It is a typical acute haemorrhagic fever, characterized by a high lethality rate. In an outbreak, the human index case became infected after contact with an infected animal or its blood, in most cases during hunting. Secondary human cases became infected after close contact with another human case, with ...