Funding Information: This work was funded by national funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., within the framework of the UID/04292/MARE - Centro de Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente and the project LA/P/0069/2020 (https://doi.org/10.54499/LA/P/0069/2020) granted to the Associate Laboratory ARNET - Aquatic Research Network.; Household Hazardous Waste (HHW), although produced in small quant...
Funding Information: This work is part of a research project funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, which aims to design and implement a post-surgical digital telemonitoring service for cardiothoracic surgery patients. The main goals of the research project are: to study the impact of daily telemonitoring on early diagnosis, to reduce hospital readmissions, and to improve patient safety, during the 30-...
Funding Information: This work was supported by National Funds through FCT—Foundation for Science and Technology under the Ph.D. Grant [PD/BD/135081/2017] (Cátia Almeida Santos) and Ph.D Grant FCT 2021.07306.BD (Catarina Pereira); Associate Laboratory for Green Chemistry—LAQV, which is financed by national funds from FCT/MCTES [UID/QUI/50006/2020] and the project [UIDB/05183/2020]. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 b...
National Funds through FCT—Foundation for Science and Technology under the Ph.D. Grant 2021.07306.BD; Aiming to develop a sustainable methodology for must acidity correction in winemaking, particularly needed in warm regions, the present study intends to fulfill the circular economy values. Antão Vaz white wines were produced using two different strategies for must acidity correction: (i) the addition of a mixt...
A Tuberculose (TB) permanece um grave problema de saúde pública na Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa (CPLP). Apesar da ampla variância da incidência da TB nos seus estados-membro e de um fluxo migratório contínuo entre os países que integram este grupo, existe uma enorme lacuna no que diz respeito ao conhecimento da estrutura populacional conjunta do Mycobacterium tuberculosis e circulação de estirpes ...
Numerous studies show efflux as a universal bacterial mechanism contributing to antibiotic resistance and also that the activity of the antibiotics subject to efflux can be enhanced by the combined use of efflux inhibitors. Nevertheless, the contribution of efflux to the overall drug resistance levels of clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is poorly understood and still is ignored by many. Here, we ...