This study's aim was to develop and implement an integrative epidemiologic cross-sectional study that allows identifying and characterising exposure pathways of populations living and working on the shores of a contaminated estuarine environment. Population residing in Carrasqueira, located on the Sado estuary with known contaminated areas was compared to another population on a noncontaminated estuary (Vila No...
This study's aim was to develop and implement an integrative epidemiologic cross-sectional study that allows identifying and characterising exposure pathways of populations living and working on the shores of a contaminated estuarine environment. Population residing in Carrasqueira, located on the Sado estuary with known contaminated areas was compared to another population on a noncontaminated estuary (Vila No...
The diagnosis of tuberculosis is seriously hampered in the absence of standard biosafety laboratory facilities for specimen concentration and Mycobacterium tuberculosis culture. Within a laboratory twinning arrangement,heat-fixed direct smear and sediment from 74 bleach-processed and 20 non-processed specimens from Cumura Hospital, Guinea-Bissau, were sent to Lisbon for molecular evaluation of rifampicin resist...
O estuário do Sado localiza-se na costa Este de Portugal, na península de Setúbal. Estudos ambientais, realizados anteriormente neste local, identificaram várias fontes de contaminação (industrial, fontes antropogénicas não-pontuais e contaminação proveniente do rio), que em conjunto contribuem para a acumulação de sedimentos contaminados e com reconhecidos impactos sobre o sistema ecológico. A população que vi...
Recorda-se do projeto HERA? Com este projeto pretendíamos conhecer o estado de saúde da popula-ção do Alentejo Litoral, nomeadamente da Carrasqueira. Pretendia-se também avaliar a qualidade do ambiente da zona costeira. Pois bem, temos alguns resultados que gostaríamos de partilhar consigo.
Sado River estuary is located in the west coast of Portugal. Previous environmental studies identified industrial contamination, non-point anthropogenic sources and contamination coming from the river, all promoting accumulation of polluted sediments with known impacts on the ecological system. Surrounding human populations have intense economic fishery activities. Together with agriculture, estuary fishing pro...