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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...
Burden of disease attributable to risk factors in European countries: a scoping...
Gorasso, V; Morgado, JN; Charalampous, P; Pires, SM; Haagsma, JA; Santos, JV; Idavain, J; Ngwa, CH; Noguer, I; Padron-Monedero, A; Sarmiento, RObjectives Within the framework of the burden of disease (BoD) approach, disease and injury burden estimates attributable to risk factors are a useful guide for policy formulation and priority setting in disease prevention. Considering the important differences in methods, and their impact on burden estimates, we conducted a scoping literature review to: (1) map the BoD assessments including risk factors perfor...
FAIR environmental and health registry (FAIREHR)- supporting the science to pol...
Jeddi, MZ; Galea, KS; Viegas, S; Fantke, P; Louro, H; Theunis, J; Govarts, E; Denys, S; Fillol, C; Rambaud, L; Kolossa-Gehring, M; Santonen, TThe environmental impact on health is an inevitable by-product of human activity. Environmental health sciences is a multidisciplinary field addressing complex issues on how people are exposed to hazardous chemicals that can potentially affect adversely the health of present and future generations. Exposure sciences and environmental epidemiology are becoming increasingly data-driven and their efficiency and ef...
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 ...
Exposure assessment in one central hospital: A multi-approach protocol to achie...
Viegas, C; Almeida B; Monteiro, A; Paciência, I; Rufo, J; Aguiar, L; Lage, B; Diogo Gonçalves, LM; Caetano, LA; Carolino, E; Gomes, AQ; Twarużek, MThe bioburden in a Hospital building originates not only from patients, visitors and staff, but is also disseminated by several indoor hospital characteristics and outdoor environmental sources. This study intends to assess the exposure to bioburden in one central Hospital with a multi-approach protocol using active and passive sampling methods. The microbial contamination was also characterized through molecul...
Mycotoxins under the human biomonitoring initiative (HBM4EU): challenges in the...
Alvito, Paula; Martins, Carla; Assunção, Ricardo; Vasco, Elsa; Calhau, MA; Lange, R.; Schoeters, G; Viegas, S; Silva, M.J.The European Human Biomonitoring Initiative HBM4EU (https://www.hbm4eu.eu/the project/) is a joint effort of 28 countries and the European Environment Agency under the Horizon 2020 funding programme of the European Commission. Since 2017, and with a project duration of 5 years, HBM4EU is generating evidence of the current exposure of European citizens to chemicals and the possible health effects in order to ass...
Building capacity in risk-benefit assessment of foods: Lessons learned from the...
Assuncao, R; Alvito, P; Brazao, R; Carmona, P; Fernandes, P; Jakobsen, LS; Lopes, C; Martins, C; Membre, JM; Monteiro, S; Nabais, P; Thomsen, STBackground: Human diet may present both risks and benefits to consumers' health. Risk-benefit assessment of foods (RBA) intends to estimate the overall health impact associated with exposure (or lack of exposure) to a particular food or food component. Scope and approach: "RiskBenefit4EU - Partnering to strengthen the risk-benefit assessment within EU using a holistic approach" (RB4EU) is a project funded by th...
Accuracy of prenatal culture in predicting intrapartum group B streptococcus co...
Florindo, C; Damião, V; Lima, J; Nogueira, I; Rocha, I; Caetano, P; Ribeiro, L; Viegas, S; Gomes, J; Borrego, MJOBJECTIVE: To evaluate the positive predictive value (PPV) of group B Streptococcus (GBS) cultures at 35-37 weeks of gestation relative to GBS colonization status at delivery. METHODS: Rectovaginal swabs from 221 women at labor in four Lisbon hospitals were collected for GBS screening according to the CDC guidelines. RESULTS: The PPV was 24.4%. IAP was administered to 100% of prenatally GBS positive women. Ther...
Accuracy of prenatal culture in predicting intrapartum group B streptococcus co...
Florindo, C; Damião, V; Lima, J; Nogueira, I; Rocha, I; Caetano, P; Ribeiro, L; Viegas, S; Gomes, JP; Borrego, MJOBJECTIVE: To evaluate the positive predictive value (PPV) of group B Streptococcus (GBS) cultures at 35-37 weeks of gestation relative to GBS colonization status at delivery. METHODS: Rectovaginal swabs from 221 women at labor in four Lisbon hospitals were collected for GBS screening according to the CDC guidelines. RESULTS: The PPV was 24.4%. IAP was administered to 100% of prenatally GBS positive women. Ther...
Genotoxic effects in occupational exposure to formaldehyde: A study in anatomy ...
Viegas, S; Ladeira, C; Nunes, C; Malta-Vacas, J; Gomes, M; Brito, M; Mendonça, P; Prista, JABSTRACT – Background: According to the Report on Carcinogens, formaldehyde ranks 25th in the overall U.S. chemical production, with more than 5 million tons produced each year. Given its economic importance and widespread use, many people are exposed to formaldehyde environmentally and/or occupationally. Presently, the International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies formaldehyde as carcinogenic to human...