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1. Real-world clinical, psychosocial and economic burden of atopic dermatitis: Results from a multicountry study

   JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY AND VENEREOLOGY, v.38, n.2, p.340-353, 2024

   Background: Atopic dermatitis (AD), a relapsing, inflammatory skin disease, is associated with pruritus that can negatively affect patients' quality of life. Understanding the burden of AD is critical for informing and tailoring treatment and disease management to improve patient outcomes. This s...

2. Delusional infestation treated with risperidone: a series of 27 patients

   CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL DERMATOLOGY, v.49, n.4, p.364-367, 2024

   Background Patients with delusional infestation (DI) frequently refuse to be treated with psychoactive drugs. In the past, pimozide was commonly used as a first-line agent but is now prescribed more rarely. Risperidone was first used to treat DI in 1995. A recent review identified 12 studies that...

3. Histopathologic findings in ointment pseudo-cheilitis: An alert to dermatopathologists

   JOURNAL OF CUTANEOUS PATHOLOGY, v.51, n.1, p.53-57, 2024

   Ointment pseudo-cheilitis is a recently recognized distinctive type of self-induced cheilitis. Lesions consist of a variable amount of crusts adhered to the vermilion. These crusts consist of dried saliva and dead cells mixed with applied medications attached to the lip surface. Patients are typi...

4. Could Cesarean Delivery Help Prevent Mother-to-Child Transmission of Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Type 1?

   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, v.228, n.12, p.1766-1775, 2023

   Background. Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is an important route of transmission that can cause lifelong infection. There is high morbidity and mortality due to adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma, HTLV-1-associated myelopathy (HAM), and other inflamm...

5. Challenges, Characteristics, and Outcomes of Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis: A 11-Year Experience in A Middle-Income Country

   MYCOPATHOLOGIA, v.188, n.5, Special Issue, p.683-691, 2023

   Objectives Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA) is a research priority in fungal diseases with a need for new studies to reduce misdiagnosis with more common diseases, discuss improvement in diagnostic methods and better characterize gaps in antifungal and surgical treatments to improve clinical...

6. Evaluation of the New Multi-HTLV Serological Assay: Improvement for HTLV-2 Detection

   AIDS RESEARCH AND HUMAN RETROVIRUSES, v.40, n.3, p.134-140, 2024

   Despite the accuracy of confirmatory tests for the diagnosis of human T cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV), inconclusive or false-negative results still occur when diagnosing human T cell lymphotropic virus type 2 (HTLV-2)-positive patients. The goal of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity and ...

7. HTLV-1 in Brazil: epidemiological scenario in the highest endemic country in the world

   AIDS REVIEWS, v.25, n.4, p.181-183, 2023

8. Can Persistent Infections with Hepatitis B Virus, Hepatitis C Virus, Human Immunodeficiency Virus, and Human T Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 Be Eradicated?

   AIDS RESEARCH AND HUMAN RETROVIRUSES, v.40, n.3, p.127-133, 2024

   Persistent viruses are hard to be eradicated, even using effective medications, and can persist for a long time in humans, sometimes regardless of treatment. Hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, human immunodeficiency virus, and human T cell lymphotropic virus infections, the most common in our ...

9. Correlation of clinical, histopathologic, and direct immunofluorescence findings in lesional and nonlesional scalp of frontal fibrosing alopecia and lichen planopilaris – An observational study

   JAAD INTERNATIONAL, v.13, p.7-9, 2023

10. Are dogs not susceptible to retroviral infections?

    ANIMAL DISEASES, v.3, n.1, article ID 31, p, 2023

    Retroviruses have been proven to cause infections and diseases in a series of mammalian hosts but not in dogs. Then, this letter discussed the dog susceptibility to retrovirus infection, encompassing arguments to understand why dogs may have not been infected by retroviruses thus far. The potenti...