Association between Zika virus infection and microcephaly in Brazil, January to May, 2016: preliminary report of a case-control study

Autor: de Araújo, Thalia Velho Barreto, Rodrigues, Laura Cunha, de Alencar Ximenes, Ricardo Arraes, de Barros Miranda-Filho, Demócrito, Montarroyos, Ulisses Ramos, de Melo, Ana Paula Lopes, Valongueiro, Sandra, de Albuquerque, Maria de Fátima Pessoa Militão, Souza, Wayner Vieira, Braga, Cynthia, Filho, Sinval Pinto Brandão, Cordeiro, Marli Tenório, Vazquez, Enrique, Di Cavalcanti Souza Cruz, Danielle, Henriques, Cláudio Maierovitch Pessanha, Bezerra, Luciana Caroline Albuquerque, da Silva Castanha, Priscila Mayrelle, Dhalia, Rafael, Marques-Júnior, Ernesto Torres Azevedo, Martelli, Celina Maria Turchi, investigators from the Microcephaly Epidemic Research Group, Brazilian Ministry of Health, Pan American Health Organization, Instituto de Medicina Integral Professor Fernando Figueira, State Health Department of Pernambuco

BACKGROUND: The microcephaly epidemic, which started in Brazil in 2015, was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by WHO in 2016. We report the preliminary results of a case-control study investigating the association between mi

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Symptomatic perception of patients affected by chronic chikungunya: a qualitative perspective

Autor: Thyago Henrique Pereira dos Santos, Mariana Prado do Amaral, Débora Rabelo Magalhães Brasil, Marina Carvalhos Arruda Barreto, Shamyr Sulyvan Castro, Marcelo José Monteiro Ferreira

Publikováno v: Journal of Health & Biological Sciences; v. 10, n. 1 (2022): Journal of Health and Biological Sciences; 1-5
Journal of Health and Biological Sciences; v. 10, n. 1 (2022): Journal of Health and Biological Sciences; 1-5
Journal of Health & Biological Sciences
Centro Universitário Christus (Unichristus)
instacron:CHRISTUS

Objective: To understand the demands caused by chikungunya in the chronic phase and their impacts on patients’ mental health and quality of life. Materials and methods: This is a qualitative study, performed from November 2019 to January 2020. Focu

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https://periodicos.unichristus.edu.br/jhbs/article/view/4604

The genome of the zoonotic malaria parasite Plasmodium simium reveals adaptations to host switching

Autor: Zelinda Maria Braga Hirano, Daniel C. Jeffares, Cristiana Ferreira Alves de Brito, Olga Douvropoulou, Alcides Pissinatti, Qingtian Guan, Cesare Bianco Júnior, Anielle de Pina-Costa, Tobias Mourier, Sarah Forrester, Abhinav Kaushik, Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro, Arnab Pain, Stefan T. Arold, Filipe Vieira Santos de Abreu, Júlio César de Souza Junior, Maria de Fátima Ferreira-da-Cruz, Silvia Bahadian Moreira, Patrícia Brasil, Francisco J. Guzmán-Vega, Denise Anete Madureira de Alvarenga, Ricardo Lourenço de Oliveira, Richard Culleton

Publikováno v: BMC Biology
BMC Biology, 2021, 19 (1), pp.219. ⟨10.1186/s12915-021-01139-5⟩
BMC Biology, BioMed Central, 2021, 19 (1), pp.219. ⟨10.1186/s12915-021-01139-5⟩
BMC Biology, Vol 19, Iss 1, Pp 1-17 (2021)

Background Plasmodium simium, a malaria parasite of non-human primates (NHP), was recently shown to cause zoonotic infections in humans in Brazil. We sequenced the P. simium genome to investigate its evolutionary history and to identify any genetic a

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https://www.hal.inserm.fr/inserm-03373313

Characterization of Extracellular Vesicles Produced by Aspergillus fumigatus Protoplasts

Autor: Thibault Chaze, Leonardo Nimrichter, Mariette Matondo, Olivier Gorgette, Anne Beauvais, Juliana Rizzo, Robert W. Roberson, Jean-Paul Latgé, Kildare Miranda, Marcio L. Rodrigues

Publikováno v: MSphere
MSphere, 2020, 5 (4), pp.00476-20. ⟨10.1128/mSphere.00476-20⟩
mSphere, Vol 5, Iss 4 (2020)
MSphere, American Society for Microbiology., 2020, 5 (4), pp.00476-20. ⟨10.1128/mSphere.00476-20⟩
mSphere, Vol 5, Iss 4, p e00476-20 (2020)
mSphere

Fungal cells use extracellular vesicles (EVs) to export biologically active molecules to the extracellular space. In this study, we used protoplasts of Aspergillus fumigatus, a major fungal pathogen, as a model to evaluate the role of EV production i

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https://doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00476-20

Determinants of cognitive performance and decline in 20 diverse ethno-regional groups: A COSMIC collaboration cohort study

Autor: Mary N. Haan, Allison E. Aiello, Erico Castro-Costa, Julian N. Trollor, Linda Lam, Jessica W. Lo, Jorge J. Llibre-Guerra, Ki Woong Kim, Katya Numbers, Kenji Narazaki, Carol Brayne, Antonio Guaita, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Annalisa Davin, Antonio Lobo, Raúl López-Antón, Adolfo J. Valhuerdi-Cepero, Marcia Scazufca, Kenichi Meguro, Seung Wan Suh, Roberta Vaccaro, Martin P.J. van Boxtel, Shuzo Kumagai, Georgios M. Hadjigeorgiou, Perminder S. Sachdev, Isabelle Carrière, Carol A. Derby, Steve R. Makkar, Tze Pin Ng, Kristina Dang, Kaarin J. Anstey, Qi Gao, Anbupalam Thalamuthu, Steffi G. Riedel-Heller, Tiffany F. Hughes, Javier Santabárbara, Kay Deckers, Mary Yannakoulia, Cleusa P. Ferri, Marie-Laure Ancelin, Ji Won Han, Gordana C. Popovic, Richard B. Lipton, Ma Shwe Zin Nyunt, Blossom C. M. Stephan, Mary Ganguli, Wai Chi Chan, Karen Ritchie, Mindy J. Katz, Henry Brodaty, Alexander Pabst, Yvonne Leung, Ada Fung, Erin Jacobsen, Darren M. Lipnicki, Hiroshi Ishii, Juan J. Llibre-Rodriguez, Sebastian Köhler, Nicolas Cherbuin, Nicole A. Kochan, Nikolaos Scarmeas, Susanne Roehr, Tao Chen, Maria Fernanda Lima-Costa, John D. Crawford

Publikováno v: PLoS Medicine
PLoS Medicine, Vol 16, Iss 7, p e1002853 (2019)
PLOS Medicine, 16(7):1002853. Public Library of Science
PLOS Medicine
PLoS Medicine, 2019, 16 (7), pp.e1002853. ⟨10.1371/journal.pmed.1002853⟩
PLoS medicine, vol 16, iss 7
Lipnicki, D M, Makkar, S R, Crawford, J D, Thalamuthu, A, Kochan, N A, Lima-Costa, M F, Castro-Costa, E, Ferri, C P, Brayne, C, Stephan, B, Llibre-Rodriguez, J J, Llibre-Guerra, J J, Valhuerdi-Cepero, A J, Lipton, R B, Katz, M J, Derby, C A, Ritchie, K, Ancelin, M-L, Carrière, I, Scarmeas, N, Yannakoulia, M, Hadjigeorgiou, G M, Lam, L, Chan, W, Fung, A, Guaita, A, Vaccaro, R, Davin, A, Kim, K W, Han, J W, Suh, S W, Riedel-Heller, S G, Roehr, S, Pabst, A, van Boxtel, M, Köhler, S, Deckers, K, Ganguli, M, Jacobsen, E P, Hughes, T F, Anstey, K J, Cherbuin, N, Haan, M N, Aiello, A E, Dang, K, Kumagai, S, Chen, T, Narazaki, K & Ng, T P & Gao, Q 2019, ' Determinants of cognitive performance and decline in 20 diverse ethno-regional groups : A COSMIC collaboration cohort study ', PLoS Medicine, vol. 16, no. 7, e1002853 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002853
PLoS Medicine, Public Library of Science, 2019, 16 (7), pp.e1002853. ⟨10.1371/journal.pmed.1002853⟩

Background With no effective treatments for cognitive decline or dementia, improving the evidence base for modifiable risk factors is a research priority. This study investigated associations between risk factors and late-life cognitive decline on a

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http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6650056