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Visceral dissemination of mucocutaneous leishmaniasis in a kidney transplant re...
Marques, N; Bustorff, M; Cordeiro-da-Silva, A; Pinto, AI; Santarém, N; Ferreira, F; Nunes, A; Cerqueira, A; Rocha, A; Ferreira, I; Tavares, I; Santos, JIntracellular protozoan of the genus Leishmania, endemic in the Mediterranean basin, are the cause of cutaneous (CL), mucocutaneous (MCL), and visceral leishmaniasis (VL). A 75-year-old woman was admitted nine years after a second kidney transplant (KT), due to persistent pancytopenia and fever. She presented edema and erythema of the nose in the last two years and an exophytic nodular lesion located on the lef...
Detection of Fusobacterium spp in colorectal tissue samples using reverse trans...
Silva, CJN; Eremina, YO; Rodrigues, S; Coelho, R; Ramalho, R; Lopes, O; Carneiro, F; Simões, JSAn unhealthy microbiome is intimately correlated with several disease states, including colorectal cancer, wherein bacteria might be the key to neoplastic initiation and progression. Recent studies revealed an enrichment of Fusobacterium in colorectal tumor tissues relative to surrounding normal mucosa. Given the available evidence, we conducted an exploratory study quantifying the relative expression of Fusoba...