GABRIEL FIALKOVITZ DA COSTA LEITE

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Instituto do Coração, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina - Médico

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  • article 9 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    Understanding Sabia virus infections (Brazilian mammarenavirus)
    (2022) NASTRI, Ana Catharina; DUARTE-NETO, Amaro Nunes; CASADIO, Luciana Vilas Boas; SOUZA, William Marciel de; CLARO, Ingra M.; MANULI, Erika R.; SELEGATTO, Gloria; SALOMA, Matias C.; FIALKOVITZ, Gabriel; TABORDA, Mariane; ALMEIDA, Bianca Leal de; MAGRI, Marcello C.; GUEDES, Ana Rubia; NETO, Laura Vieira Perdigao; SATAKI, Fatima Mitie; GUIMARAES, Thais; MENDES-CORREA, Maria Cassia; TOZETTO-MENDOZA, Tania R.; FUMAGALLI, Marcilio Jorge; HO, Yeh-Li; SILVA, Camila ALves Maia da; COLETTI, Thais M.; JESUS, Jacqueline Goes de; ROMANO, Camila M.; HILL, Sarah C.; PYBUS, Oliver; PINHO, Joao Renato Rebello; LEDESMA, Felipe Lourenco; CASAL, Yuri R.; KANAMURA, Cristina; ARAUJO, Leonardo Jose Tadeu de; FERREIRA, Camila Santos da Silva; GUERRA, Juliana Mariotti; FIGUEIREDO, Luiz Tadeu Moraes; DOLHNIKOFF, Marisa; FARIA, Nuno R.; SABINO, Ester C.; AVANCINI, Venacio; ALVES, Ferreira; LEVIN, Anna S.
    Background: Only two naturally occurring human Sabi ' a virus (SABV) infections have been reported, and those occurred over 20 years ago. Methods: We diagnosed two new cases of SABV infection using metagenomics in patients thought to have severe yellow fever and described new features of histopathological findings. Results: We characterized clinical manifestations, histopathology and analyzed possible nosocomial transmission. Patients presented with hepatitis, bleeding, neurological alterations and died. We traced twenty-nine hospital contacts and evaluated them clinically and by RT-PCR and neutralizing antibodies. Autopsies uncovered unique features on electron microscopy, such as hepatocyte ""pinewood knot"" lesions. Although previous reports with similar New-World arenavirus had nosocomial transmission, our data did not find any case in contact tracing. Conclusions: Although an apparent by rare, Brazilian mammarenavirus infection is an etiology for acute hemorrhagic fever syndrome. The two fatal cases had peculiar histopathological findings not previously described. The virological diagnosis was possible only by contemporary techniques such as metagenomic assays. We found no subsequent infections when we used serological and molecular tests to evaluate close contacts.
  • article 9 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    Performance of a qualitative rapid chromatographic immunoassay to diagnose COVID-19 in patients in a middle-income country
    (2020) COSTA, Silvia Figueiredo; BUSS, Lewis; ESPINOZA, Evelyn Patricia Sanchez; JR, Jose Mauro Vieira; SILVA, Lea Campos de Oliveira da; SOUZA, Regina Maia de; NETO, Lauro Perdigao; PORTO, Ana Paula Matos; LAZARI, Carolina; SANTOS, Vera Aparecida dos; DUARTE, Alberto da Silva; NASTRI, Ana Catharina; LEITE, Gabriel Fialkovitz da Costa; MANULI, Erika; OLIVEIRA, Maura Salaroli de; ZAMPELLI, Daniella Bosco; PASTORE JUNIOR, Laerte; SEGURADO, Aluisio Cotrim; LEVIN, Anna S.; SABINO, Ester
    Objectives: We evaluated a rapid chromatographic immunoassay (IgG/IgM antibodies) and an ELISA assay to diagnose COVID-19 in patient sat two Brazilian hospitals. Methods: A total of 122 subjects with COVID-19 were included: 106 SARS-COV-2 RT-PCR-positive patients and 16 RT-PCR-negative patients with symptoms and chest computed tomography (CT) consistent with COVID-19. Ninety-six historical blood donation samples were used as controls. Demographic and clinical characteristics were retrieved from electronic records. Sensitivity and specificity were calculated, as were their 95% binomial confidence intervals using the Clopper-Pearson method. All analyses were performed in R version 3.6.3. Results: The sensitivity of the chromatographic immunoassay in all RT-PCR-positive patients, irrespective of the timing of symptom onset, was 85.8% (95% binomial CI 77.7% to 91.9%). This increased with time after symptom onset, and at >14 days was 94.9% (85.9% to 98.9%). The specificity was 100% (96.4% to 100%). 15/16 (94%) RT- PCR-negative cases tested positive. The most frequent comorbidities were hypertension and diabetes mellitus and the most frequent symptoms were fever, cough, and dyspnea. All RT-PCR-negative patients had pneumonia. The most frequent thoracic CT findings were ground glass changes (n = 11, 68%), which were bilateral in 9 (56%) patients, and diffuse reticulonodular infiltrates (n = 5, 31%). Conclusions: The COVID-19 rapid chromatographic immunoassay evaluated in this study had a high sensitivity and specificity using plasma, particularly after 14 days from symptom onset. ELISA and qualitative rapid chromatographic immunoassays can be used for the diagnosis of RT-PCR-negative patients.