• Differential immune response modulation in early Leishmania amazonensis infection of BALB/c and C57BL/6 macrophages based on transcriptome profiles (vol 9, 19841, 2019) 

  AOKI, Juliana Ide; MUXEL, Sandra Marcia; ZAMPIERI, Ricardo Andrade; MUELLER, Karl Erik; NERLAND, Audun Helge; FLOETER-WINTER, Lucile Maria (NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, LONDON, ENGLAND, 2020)

  An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
• Human Toxocariasis: 2010 to 2020 Contributions from Brazilian Researchers 

  CHIEFFI, Pedro Paulo; LESCANO, Susana Angelica Zevallos; FONSECA, Gabriela Rodrigues e; SANTOS, Sergio Vieira dos (DOVE MEDICAL PRESS LTD, ALBANY, NEW ZEALAND, 2021)

  This is a review of the published contributions made by Brazilian researchers between 2010 and 2020 on the natural history of human toxocariasis and the effects of human toxocariasis on nonhuman paratenic hosts.
• The Cumulative Incidence of Multiple DNA Virus Reactivation is not Different in Non-depleted Haploidentical Stem Cell Transplantation and Unrelated Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation 

  KERBAUY, Mariana Nassif; RIBEIRO, Andreza Alice Feitosa; KERBAUY, Lucila Nassif; SILVA, Cinthya Correa da; HAMERSCHLAK, Nelson; MACHADO, Clarisse Martins (SPRINGERNATURE, LONDON, ENGLAND, 2020)
• Seroprevalence Brazil 

  FIALHO, Paula Mayara Matos; CORREA, Carlos Roberto Silveira; LESCANO, Susana Zevallos (ACADEMIC PRESS LTD-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, LONDON, ENGLAND, 2020)

  This chapter presents an overview of the seroprevalence of toxocariasis in Brazil and discusses how this zoonosis is studied, diagnosed, and treated in the Brazilian population. Toxocariasis in humans has a high prevalence ...
• Dengue Virus Serotype 2 Intrahost Diversity in Patients with Different Clinical Outcomes 

  TORRES, Maria Celeste; MENDONCA, Marcos Cesar Lima de; RODRIGUES, Cintia Damasceno dos Santos; FONSECA, Vagner; RIBEIRO, Mario Sergio; BRANDAO, Ana Paula; CUNHA, Rivaldo Venancio da; DIAS, Ana Isabel; BOAS, Lucy Santos Vilas; FELIX, Alvina Clara; PEREIRA, Maira Alves; PINTO, Luzia Maria de Oliveira; SAKUNTABHAI, Anavaj; FILIPPIS, Ana Maria Bispo de (MDPI, BASEL, SWITZERLAND, 2021)

  Intrahost genetic diversity is thought to facilitate arbovirus adaptation to changing environments and hosts, and it might also be linked to viral pathogenesis. Dengue virus serotype 2 (DENV-2) has circulated in Brazil ...
• Whole transcriptome analysis of multiple Sclerosis patients reveals active inflammatory profile in relapsing patients and downregulation of neurological repair pathways in secondary progressive cases 

  NALI, Luiz H.; OLIVAL, Guilherme S.; SOUSA, Francielle T. G.; OLIVEIRA, Ana Carolina S. de; MONTENEGRO, Horacio; SILVA, Israel T. da; DIAS-NETO, Emamnuel; NAYA, Hugo; SPANGENBERG, Lucia; PENALVA-DE-OLIVEIRA, Augusto C.; ROMANO, Camila M. (ELSEVIER SCI LTD, OXFORD, ENGLAND, 2020)

  Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory autoimmune neurologic disease that causes progressive destruction of myelin sheath and axons. Affecting more than 2 million people worldwide, MS may presents distinct ...
• High-risk human papillomavirus in patients with oral leukoplakia and oral squamous cell carcinoma-A multi-centre study in Sweden, Brazil and Romania 

  SUNDBERG, Jonas; OHMAN, Jenny; KORYTOWSKA, Magdalena; WALLSTROM, Mats; KJELLER, Goran; ANDERSSON, Maria; HORAL, Peter; LINDH, Magnus; GIGLIO, Daniel; KOVACS, Aniko; SAND, Lars; HIRSCH, Jan-Michael; FERRACINI, Lais Magda Araujo; SOUZA, Ana Carolina Mamana Fernandes de; PARLATESCU, Ioanina; DOBRE, Maria; HINESCU, Mihail-Eugen; BRAZ-SILVA, Paulo Henrique; TOVARU, Serban; HASSEUS, Bengt (WILEY, HOBOKEN, USA, 2021)

  Objectives Although causal associations between oral leukoplakia (OL), oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) and high-risk human papillomavirus (HR-HPV) have been speculated upon in several reports, conclusive evidence has ...
• The hidden Plasmodium malariae in blood donors: a risk coming from areas of low transmission of malaria 

  ASCHAR, Mariana; LEVI, Jose Eduardo; FARINAS, Maria L. R. N.; MONTEBELLO, Sandra C.; MENDRONE-JUNIOR, Alfredo; SANTI, Silvia Maria Di (INST MEDICINA TROPICAL SAO PAULO, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL, 2020)

  Malaria is an infectious vector-borne disease with other important routes of transmission, such as blood transfusion and organ/tissue transplantation, due to asymptomatic reservoirs of Plasmodium presenting with low ...
• Plaque Reduction Neutralization Test (PRNT) in the Congenital Zika Syndrome: Positivity and Associations with Laboratory, Clinical, and Imaging Characteristics 

  RIBEIRO, Marizelia R. C.; KHOURI, Ricardo; SOUSA, Patricia S.; BRANCO, Maria R. F. C.; BATISTA, Rosangela F. L.; COSTA, Elaine P. F.; ALVES, Maria T. S. S. B.; AMARAL, Glaucio A.; BORGES, Marcella C. R.; TAKAHASI, Eliana H. M.; GOMES, Lillian N.; MENDES, Ana K. T.; CAVALCANTE, Tamires B.; COSTA, Luciana C.; FELIX, Alvina C.; SOUZA, Nathalia C. S.; SILVA, Antonio A. M. (MDPI, BASEL, SWITZERLAND, 2020)

  The short duration of viremia, low blood viral load, inaccessibility to timely specific diagnostic tests, and cross-reactions with other flaviviruses have hindered laboratory confirmation of Congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS). ...
• Natural versus Recombinant Viral Antigens in SARS-CoV-2 Serology: Challenges in Optimizing Laboratory Diagnosis of COVID-19 

  MEIRELES, Luciana Regina; SILVA, Angelica Moura Freixeira da; CARVALHO, Camila Aparecida; KESPER, Norival; GALISTEO JR., Andres Jimenez; SOARES, Camila Pereira; ARAUJO, Danielle Bastos; DURIGON, Edison Luiz; OLIVEIRA, Danielle Bruna Leal; MORGANTI, Ligia; CHURA-CHAMBI, Rosa Maria; ANDRADE JR., Heitor Franco de (HOSPITAL CLINICAS, UNIV SAO PAULO, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL, 2020)

  OBJECTIVES: COVID-19 is a public health emergency of international concern whose detection in recovered asymptomatic patients is dependent on accurate diagnosis as it enables the estimation of the susceptibility of the ...
• Periodontal tissues are targets for Sars-Cov-2: a post-mortem study 

  MATUCK, Bruno Fernandes; DOLHNIKOFF, Marisa; MAIA, Gilvan V. A.; SENDYK, Daniel Isaac; ZARPELLON, Amanda; GOMES, Sara Costa; DUARTE-NETO, Amaro Nunes; PINHO, Joao Renato Rebello; GOMES-GOUVEA, Michele Soares; SOUSA, Suzana C. O. M.; MAUAD, Thais; SALDIVA, Paulo Hilario do Nascimento; BRAZ-SILVA, Paulo H.; SILVA, Luiz Fernando Ferraz da (TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, ABINGDON, ENGLAND, 2021)

  Background: The ability of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 to spread is one of the determinants of the COVID-19 pandemic status. Until June 2020, global COVID-19 cases surpassed 10 million. Asymptomatic patients, with no respiratory ...
• Chromosomal segments may explain the antibody response cooperation for canine leishmaniasis pathogenesis 

  BATISTA, Luis F. S.; TORRECILHA, Rafaela B. P.; SILVA, Rafaela B.; UTSUNOMIYA, Yuri T.; SILVA, Thais B. F.; TOMOKANE, Thaise Y.; PACHECO, Acacio D.; BOSCO, Anelise M.; PAULAN, Silvana C.; ROSSI, Claudio N.; COSTA, Gustavo N. O.; MARCONDES, Mary; CIARLINI, Paulo C.; NUNES, Caris M.; MATTA, Vania L. R.; LAURENTI, Marcia D. (ELSEVIER, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 2020)

  Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is marked by hyperactivation of a humoral response secreting high quantity of immunoglobulins (Igs) that are inaccessible to intracellular parasites. Here we investigated the contributions of ...
• Vaccine development against neglected tropical diseases 

  LUNA, Expedito Jose de Albuquerque; CAMPOS, Sergio Roberto de Souza Leao da Costa (CADERNOS SAUDE PUBLICA, RIO DE JANIERO, BRAZIL, 2020)

  Neglected tropical diseases constitute a heterogeneous group of diseases that have as a common characteristic to affect poor and unassisted populations with little vocalization capacity and political power. As a result, ...
• A sensitive and reliable quantitative immunohistochemistry technique to evaluate the percentage of Trypanosoma cruzi-infected tissue area 

  FERREIRA-FILHO, Julio Cesar Rente; BRAZ, Lucia Maria Almeida; ANDRINO, Marcos Luiz Alves; YAMAMOTO, Lidia; KANASHIRO, Edite Hatsumi Yamashiro; SILVA, Ana Maria Goncalves da; KANUNFRE, Kelly Aparecida; OKAY, Thelma Suely (ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD, CLARE, IRELAND, 2021)

  Quantification of parasites in the context of Chagas disease is required to monitor the treatment with benznidazole, disease-associated cardiomyopathies and graft rejection after heart transplantation. As parasitological ...
• Activity of paromomycin against Leishmania amazonensis: Direct correlation between susceptibility in vitro and the treatment outcome in vivo 

  COSER, Elizabeth M.; FERREIRA, Bianca A.; BRANCO, Nilson; YAMASHIRO-KANASHIRO, Edite H.; LINDOSO, Jose Angelo L.; COELHO, Adriano C. (ELSEVIER SCI LTD, OXFORD, ENGLAND, 2020)

  Paromomycin is an aminoglycoside antibiotic approved in 2006 for the treatment of visceral leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania donovani in Southeast Asia. Although this drug is not approved for the treatment of visceral and ...
• Factors associated with attitudes towards HIV cure research among transgender women and travestis: a cross-sectional survey in Sao Paulo, Brazil 

  WOZNIAK, Robert J.; CERQUEIRA, Natalia B.; DANTAS, Maria Candida S.; MAHAFE, Bianca; BARROS, Daniel A. C.; MEDEIROS, Edmilson Alves de; OLIVEIRA, Ana Carolina Soares de; SABINO, Thiago; ROGGENBUCK, Albert; AVELINO-SILVA, Vivian Iida; JOHNSTON, Carrie D.; MARSTON, Jez L.; BIDEGAIN, Sebastian C.; MAGNUS, Manya; KALLAS, Esper G.; NIXON, Douglas F.; DONINI, Camila S. (BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP, LONDON, ENGLAND, 2020)

  Objective Characterising the perceptions of groups most affected by HIV is fundamental in establishing guidelines for biomedical advancement. Although Brazil has successfully fought HIV/AIDS through several measures, ...
• Frequency of Leishmania spp. infection among HIV-infected patients living in an urban area in Brazil: a cross-sectional study 

  CUNHA, M. A.; CELESTE, B. J.; KESPER, N.; FUGIMORI, M.; LAGO, M. M.; IBANES, A. S.; OUKI, L. M.; SIMOES NETO, E. A.; FONSECA, F. F.; SILVA, M. A. L.; BARBOSA JUNIOR, W. L.; LINDOSO, J. A. L. (BMC, LONDON, ENGLAND, 2020)

  BackgroundThere is little information about the frequency of Leishmania infection in asymptomatic people living with HIV (PLWH) and about the performance of laboratory diagnostic methods in coinfected patients in Latin ...
• Anti-Zika virus activity of several abietane-type ferruginol analogues 

  SOUSA, Francielle T. G.; NUNES, Cristina; ROMANO, Camila Malta; SABINO, Ester Cerdeira; GONZALEZ-CARDENETE, Miguel Angel (INST MEDICINA TROPICAL SAO PAULO, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL, 2020)

  Abietane diterpenoids are naturally occurring plant metabolites with a broad spectrum of biological effects including antibacterial. antileishmanial, antitumor, antioxidant, as well as antiinfiammatory activities. Recently, ...
• Performance of at-home self-collected saliva and nasal-oropharyngeal swabs in the surveillance of COVID-19 

  BRAZ-SILVA, Paulo H.; MAMANA, Ana C.; ROMANO, Camila M.; FELIX, Alvina C.; V, Anderson de Paula; FEREIRA, Noeli E.; BUSS, Lewis F.; TOZETTO-MENDOZA, Tania R.; V, Rafael A. Caixeta; LEAL, Fabio E.; GRESPAN, Regina M. Z.; BIZARIO, Joao C. S.; FERRAZ, Andrea B. C.; SAPKOTA, Dipak; GIANNECCHINI, Simone; TO, Kelvin K.; DOGLIO, Alain; MENDES-CORREA, Maria C. (TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, ABINGDON, ENGLAND, 2021)

  Background: SARS-CoV-2 quickly spreads in the worldwide population, imposing social restrictions to control the infection, being the massive testing another essential strategy to break the chain of transmission. Aim: To ...
• Shotgun proteomics of Strongyloides venezuelensis infective third stage larvae: Insights into host-parasite interaction and novel targets for diagnostic (vol 235, 111249, 2020) 

  FONSECA, Priscilla D. M.; CORRAL, Marcelo A.; COSENZA-CONTRERAS, Miguel; MEISEL, Dirce M. C. L.; MELO, Gessica B.; ANTUNES, Milena M. S.; SANTO, Maria C. E.; GRYSCHEK, Ronaldo C. B.; COSTA-CRUZ, Julia M.; CASTRO-BORGES, William; PAULA, Fabiana M. (ELSEVIER, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 2020)

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