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Multicentre study highlighting clinical relevance of new high-throughput method...
Esteves, F.; Sousa, B. de; Calderón, E. J.; Huang, L.; Badura, R.; Maltez, F.; Bassat, Q.; de Armas, Y.; Antunes, F.; Matos, O.Pneumocystis jirovecii causes severe interstitial pneumonia (PcP) in immunosuppressed patients. This multicentre study assessed the distribution frequencies of epidemiologically relevant genetic markers of P. jirovecii in different geographic populations from Portugal, the USA, Spain, Cuba and Mozambique, and the relationship between the molecular data and the geographical and clinical information, based on a m...
Portugal and Angola: similarities and differences in Toxoplasma gondii seroprev...
LOBO, M. L.; PATROCINIO, G.; Sevivas, T.; Sousa, B. de; Matos, O.In this study we determined the presence of IgM/IgG antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii in sera of 155 and 300 pregnant women from Lisbon (Portugal) and Luanda (Angola), respectively, and evaluated the potential risk factors associated with this infection. DNA detection was performed by PCR assays targeting T. gondii regions (RE/B1). Overall, 21·9% (10·9% IgG, 10·9% IgG/IgM) of the Lisbon women and 27·3% (23·7%, Ig...
Trends, seasonality and forecasts of pulmonary tuberculosis in Portugal
Bras, A. L.; Gomes, D.; Filipe, P. A.; Sousa, B. de; Nunes, C.Tuberculosis (TB) is a global public health concern. Surveillance programmes present invaluable epidemiological information regarding its temporal evolution, particularly for pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB), the most common form of TB and the one that presents the greatest challenge in public health.
An examination of the association between premature mortality and life expectan...
White, A.; McKee, M.; Sousa, B. de; de Visser, R.; Hogston, R.; Madsen, S. A.; Makara, P.; Richardson, N.; Zato ski, W.; Raine, G.A feature of the health of men across Europe is their higher rates of premature mortality and shorter life expectancy at birth than women. Following the publication of the first State of Men's Health in Europe report, we sought to explore possible reasons.