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Microbial Assessment in A Rare Norwegian Book Collection: A One Health Approach...
Sequeira, S; Pasnak, E; Viegas, C; Gomes, B; Dias, M; Cervantes, R; Pena, P; Twarużek, M; Kosicki, R; Viegas, S; Caetano, L; Penetra, M J; Silva, IMicrobial contamination poses a threat to both the preservation of library and archival collections and the health of staff and users. This study investigated the microbial communities and potential health risks associated with the UNESCO-classified Norwegian Sea Trade Archive (NST Archive) collection exhibiting visible microbial colonization and staff health concerns. Dust samples from book surfaces and the st...
Turning the table toward plant-based: different perspectives on menu reformulat...
Rocha, Ada; Viegas, C; Gonçalves, S<jats:p>Scientific evidence supports the need to adapt food systems, counteracting the current scenario characterized by excessive and growing consumption of animal products that translates into high environmental impact, unsustainability, and negative effects on health. The food services are responsible for a high and increasing carbon footprint, emerging as a sector that promotes food sustainability through t...
Challenges of Food Service towards Sustainability Beyond Food Waste
Rocha, Ada; Viegas, C<jats:p>Food service comprises the production of meals consumed outside the home, including consumers from all age groups and in different sectors, such as schools (from kindergarten to university), public and private companies, the health sector (from hospitals to elderly care institutions), military, sports facilities and restaurants (from fine dining to fast-food). Food service units (FSU) achieved importanc...
Changes in food behavior during the first lockdown of COVID-19 pandemic: A mult...
Lamy, E; Viegas, C; Rocha, Ada; Raquel Lucas, M; Tavares, S; Capela e Silva, F; Guedes, D; Laureati, M; Zian, Z; Salles Machado, A; Ellssel, PThe COVID-19 pandemic resulted in severe, unprecedented changes affecting the world population. Restrictions in mobility, social distancing measures, and the persistent social alarm, during the first period of pandemic, resulted in dramatic lifestyle changes and affected physical and psychological wellbeing on a global scale. An international research team was constituted to develop a study involving different ...
Changes in saliva proteome in response to bread odour
Carreira, L; Castelo, PM; Simões, C; Capela e Silva, F; Viegas, C; Lamy, EIt is widely recognized that smelling food results in a mouth-watering feeling and influences appetite. However, besides changes in volume, little is known about the effects that food odours have on the composition of saliva. The aim of the present study was to access the effects that smelling bread has on saliva proteome and to compare such effects with those of chewing and ingesting it. Besides a significant ...
Airborne Food Allergen and Aeroallergen Levels in Health Care Settings: An Unac...
Leal, M; Paciência, I; Farraia, M; Cavaleiro Rufo, J; Castro Mendes, F; Delgado, L; Viegas, C; Moreira, ABackground and objective: Exposure to airborne allergens of biological origin is associated with the development and exacerbation of allergic asthma and rhinitis. Assessment of allergen exposure in health care facilities may improve monitoring of hygiene and surveillance of specific allergens that can cause symptoms in sensitized persons. Objective: To assess concentrations of airborne food and aeroallergens in...
Settled dust assessment in clinical environment: useful for the evaluation of a...
Viegas, C; Almeida, B; Monteiro, A; Paciência, I; Cavaleiro Rufo, J; Carolino, E; Quintal-Gomes, A; Twarużek, M; Kosicki, R; Marchand, GThe collection and analysis of settled dust samples from indoor environments has become one of several environmental sampling methods used to assess bioburden indoors. The aim of the study was to characterize the bioburden in vacuumed settled dust from 10 Primary Health Care Centers by culture based and molecular methods. Results for bacterial load ranged from 1 to 12 CFU.g−1 of dust and Gram-negative bacteria ...
Bacterial contamination in health care centers: Differences between urban and r...
Monteiro, A; Almeida, B; Paciência, I; Cavaleiro Rufo, J; Ribeiro, E; Carolino, E; Viegas, C; Uva, AS; Verde, SCThis study aims to assess the airborne bioburden of rural and urban Portuguese Primary Health Care Centers (PHCC) using active and passive sampling methods and identify the potential differences in airborne microbiota between both environments. The highest total aerobic mesophilic bacterial load in indoor air were found in the Vaccination Room (448 CFU.m−3) in the Rural PHCC and in the Waiting Room (420 CFU.m−3...
Dental pathology of the wild Iberian wolf (Canis lupus signatus): The study of ...
Pires, AE; Caldeira, IS; Petrucci-Fonseca, Francisco; Viegas, I; Viegas, C; Bastos-Silveira, Cristiane; Requicha, JFFor some wild canids, such as the Iberian wolf, there is a lack of in-depth knowledge about dental pathology. We aimed to evaluate it, in a standardized manner, in specimens from a Portuguese museum collection. Sixty-five deceased specimens of wild Iberian wolves, 61 complete skulls and 4 mandibles, collected in Portugal between 1977 and 1995, were analyzed. Sample comprised 18 females, 24 males and 23 individu...
Dental pathology of the wild Iberian wolf (Canis lupus signatus): The study of ...
Pires, AE; Caldeira, IS; Petrucci-Fonseca, Francisco; Viegas, I; Viegas, C; Bastos-Silveira, Cristiane; Requicha, JFFor some wild canids, such as the Iberian wolf, there is a lack of in-depth knowledge about dental pathology. We aimed to evaluate it, in a standardized manner, in specimens from a Portuguese museum collection. Sixty-five deceased specimens of wild Iberian wolves, 61 complete skulls and 4 mandibles, collected in Portugal between 1977 and 1995, were analyzed. Sample comprised 18 females, 24 males and 23 individu...