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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...
Demographic characteristics and risk factors related to high blood pressure amo...
Sebastião, Cruz S.; Sacomboio, Euclides; Francisco, Ngiambudulu M.; Paixão, Joana; Cassinela, Edson K.; de Vasconcelos, Jocelyne Neto; Pimentel, VictorFunding Information: Thanks to the research team of INIS/CISA (Joana Sebastião, Joltim Quivinja, Joana Paixão, António Mateus, and Zinga David), Instituto Nacional de Sangue (Eunice Manico, Alberto Sozinho, and Deodete Machado), and Clínica Girassol (Alice Teixeira, Domingos Alfredo, and Ngueza Loureiro) for the data collection, technical/administrative support, and testing. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Auth...
Plasmodium falciparum population structure in southwestern Africa, using whole ...
Tavares, Wilson; Dwivedi, Ankit; Stabler, Thomas C; Rao, Samyukta; Martins, José Franco; Fortes, Filomeno; Arez, Ana Paula; Morais, JoanaMalaria continues to be the principal cause of morbidity and mortality in Angola, primarily due to Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) infection. Angola ranked 9th worldwide in number of malaria deaths in 2021 but the distribution of disease is remarkably heterogeneous, with provinces varying between <1% and >50% malaria prevalence. Despite malaria’s heavy toll on public health in Angola, Pf genetic diversity and demogr...
Blood pressure pattern among blood donors exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in Luanda, Angola
Sebastião, Cruz S.; Sacomboio, Euclides; Francisco, Ngiambudulu M.; Cassinela, Edson K.; Mateus, António; David, Zinga; Pimentel, Victor; Paixão, JoanaFunding Information: Thanks to the research team of INIS/CISA (Manuela Galangue, Joltim Quivinja, Celestina Gaston, and Rui Van‑Dunen), Instituto Nacional de Sangue (Emiliana Lunbungululo, Eunice Manico, Alberto Sozinho, and Deodete Machado), and Clínica Girassol (Alice Teixeira, Domingos Alfredo, and Ngueza Loureiro) for the data collection, technical/administrative support, and testing. Publisher Copyright: ©...
Early Evidence of Circulating SARS-CoV-2 in Unvaccinated and Vaccinated Measles...
Paixao, Joana; Galangue, Maria; Gaston, Celestina; Carralero, Raísa; Lino, Celestina; Júlio, Gracieth; David, Zinga; Francisco, MoisesFunding Information: This study was funded as a donation from the Ministry of Health, Angola. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Paixao et al.; Background: The global emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has challenged healthcare and rapidly spread over the globe. Early detection of new infections is crucial in the control of emerging diseases. Evidence of early recorded COVID-19 cases outside China has be...
Malaria in Angola
Tavares, Wilson; Morais, Joana; Martins, José F; Scalsky, Ryan J; Stabler, Thomas C; Medeiros, Márcia M; Fortes, Filomeno J; Arez, Ana Paula© 2022. The Author(s).; Over the past two decades, a considerable expansion of malaria interventions has occurred at the national level in Angola, together with cross-border initiatives and regional efforts in southern Africa. Currently, Angola aims to consolidate malaria control and to accelerate the transition from control to pre-elimination, along with other country members of the Elimination 8 initiative. H...
Human-derived NLS enhance the gene transfer efficiency of chitosan
Bitoque, Diogo B; Morais, Joana; Oliveira, Ana V; Sequeira, Raquel L; Calado, Sofia M; Fortunato, Tiago M; Simão, Sonia; Rosa da Costa, Ana MThe authors acknowledge Dr. Jean Bennett (University of Pennsylvania, USA) for kindly providing the GFP plasmid and Dr. Lyn Schedlich and Sue Firth for kindly providing the NLS plasmids. The authors also acknowledge the financial support of Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (PTDC/SAL -BEB/098475/2008 to Gabriela A. Silva, PD/BD/52424/2013 individual fellowship to Diogo Bitoque, SFRH/BD/70318/2010 individual ...
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-...