Molecular and Clinical Characterization of Giardia duodenalis Infection in Preschool Children from Lisbon, Portugal

Autor: Filipa Santana Ferreira, Rita Alexandre dos Santos Soares de Bellegarde Machado Sá da Bandeira, Cláudia Alexandra Cecílio de Sampaio Ferreira Constantino, Ana Maria Teixeira Duarte Cancela da Fonseca, Joana da Graça Matias Gomes, Rúben Miguel Lopes Rodrigues, Jorge Luís Marques da Silva Atouguia, Sónia Chavarria Alves Ferreira Centeno-Lima

Publikováno v: Journal of Parasitology Research, Vol 2013 (2013)

Giardia duodenalis is the most prevalent intestinal protozoan infection especially in children. In Portugal scarce data are available relative to this infection in preschoolers. The present study was conducted from April to July 2009 in public presch

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Molecular characterization of Giardia lamblia in children less than 5 years of age with diarrhoea attending the Bengo General Hospital, Angola

Autor: Maria Clara Mirante, Daniela Portugal-Calisto, Ana Santos-Reis, Filipa Santana Ferreira, António Carlos Mayer, Susana Vaz Nery, Carolina Gasparinho, Miguel Brito

Publikováno v: Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal
Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
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Introduction - Giardia lamblia is a pathogenic intestinal protozoan with high prevalence in developing countries, especially among children. Molecular characterization has revealed the existence of eight assemblages, with A and B being more commonly

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https://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/8178

Molecular characterization of Giardia duodenalis in children from the Cufada Lagoon Natural Park, Guinea-Bissau

Autor: L. Cravo, V. Rosado, Ricardo Parreira, Filipa Santana Ferreira, Jorge Atouguia, Joana Gomes, Fernanda Rosa, L. Távora Tavira, Sónia Centeno-Lima

Publikováno v: Parasitology Research. 111:2173-2177

Molecular characterization of Giardia duodenalis in African countries is relatively scarce. The global understanding of Giardia epidemiology is reinforced when more data are available from highly endemic countries. In the present study, 50 fecal samp

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-012-3068-6

Intestinal parasites in children hospitalized at the Central Hospital in Maputo, Mozambique

Autor: Ana Maria Fonseca, Filipa Santana Ferreira, Joana Gomes, Natércia Fernandes, Sónia Centeno-Lima

Publikováno v: Journal of infection in developing countries. 8(6)

Introduction: Intestinal parasites are important contributors to the global disease burden, especially in children of low-income countries. The present study determined the frequency of intestinal parasites in children hospitalized at the diarrhea se

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24916879

Molecular identification of T. brucei s.l. in tsetse flies after long-term permanence in field traps

Autor: Sónia Centeno-Lima, Jorge Seixas, Filipa Santana Ferreira, Joana Gomes, Célia Leão, Theophile Josenando, Jorge Atouguia, Catarina Santos, Maria Odete Afonso

Publikováno v: Journal of infection in developing countries. 3(9)

Background: Tsetse flies (Glossina spp.) are responsible for the transmission of trypanosomes, agents of animal and Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT). These diseases are associated with considerable animal and human economical loss, morbidity and m

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19858577