Objective: To show the feasibility of using combined nasopharyngeal swab auto-collection and pool testing to detect SARS-CoV-2 in epidemiological surveys. Methods: The study involved a sample of 154 students from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, who performed the self-collection of the nasopharyngeal swab in individual booths without supervision. Molecular testing was performed using the pool testing t...
BACKGROUND Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) is an infectious disease that is a significant cause of death among infants aged under 1 year and the elderly in Brazil. Serodiagnosis is a mainstay of VL elimination programs; however, it has significant limitations due to low accuracy. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate three recombinant Leishmania infantum proteins (rFc, rC9, and rA2) selected from previous proteomi...
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Florianopolis, SC, Brazil; Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Florianopolis, SC, Brazil/Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina. Joaçaba, SC, Brazil; Karolinska Institutet. Science for Life Laboratory. Department of Cell and Molecular Biology. Stockholm, Sweden; Laboratorio Nacional de Computação Cientıfica. Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Universidade Federal do...
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