• Weak D types 38 and 11: determination of frequencies in a Brazilian population and validation of an easy molecular assay for detection 

  DEZAN, M.R.; OLIVEIRA, V.B.; CONRADO, M.; LUZ, F.; GALLUCCI, A.; OLIVEIRA, T.G.M.; SABINO, E.C.; ROCHA, V.; MENDRONE, A.; C.L., Dinardo Jr (NLM (MEDLINE), 2020)

  CONCLUSIONS: Recent evidence shows that, among Brazilians, the distribution of weak D types significantly differs from that represented in people of European descent, with a high percentage of weak D types 38 and 11. Our ...
• Challenges in the care of patients with Chagas disease in the Brazilian public health system: A qualitative study with primary health care doctors 

  DAMASCENO, R.F.; SABINO, E.C.; FERREIRA, A.M.; RIBEIRO, A.L.P.; MOREIRA, H.F.; PRATES, T.E.C.; SAMPAIO, C.A.; HAIKAL, D.S.A. (NLM (MEDLINE), 2020)

  BACKGROUND: Care to patients with Chagas disease (CD) is still a challenge for health systems in endemic and non-endemic countries. In the Brazilian public health system, the expansion of Primary Health Care (PHC) services ...
• 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 ...
• Intradermal Delivery of Dendritic Cell-Targeting Chimeric mAbs Genetically Fused to Type 2 Dengue Virus Nonstructural Protein 1 

  PEREIRA, Lennon Ramos; VICENTIN, Elaine Cristina Matos; PEREIRA, Sara Araujo; MAEDA, Denicar Lina Nascimento Fabris; ALVES, Rubens Prince dos Santos; ANDREATA-SANTOS, Robert; SOUSA, Francielle Tramontini Gomes de; YAMAMOTO, Marcio Massao; CASTRO-AMARANTE, Maria Fernanda; FAVARO, Marianna Teixeira de Pinho; ROMANO, Camila Malta; SABINO, Ester Cerdeira; BOSCARDIN, Silvia Beatriz; FERREIRA, Luis Carlos de Souza (MDPI, BASEL, SWITZERLAND, 2020)

  Targeting dendritic cells (DCs) by means of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) capable of binding their surface receptors (DEC205 and DCIR2) has previously been shown to enhance the immunogenicity of genetically fused antigens. ...
• Genomic constellation of human Rotavirus A strains identified in Northern Brazil: a 6-year follow-up (2010-2016) 

  SILVA-SALES, Marcelle; LEAL, Elcio; MILAGRES, Flavio Augusto de Padua; BRUSTULIN, Rafael; MORAIS, Vanessa dos Santos; MARCATTI, Roberta; ARAUJO, Emerson Luiz Lima; WITKIN, Steven S.; DENG, Xutao; SABINO, Ester Cerdeira; DELWART, Eric; LUCHS, Adriana; COSTA, Antonio Charlys da (INST MEDICINA TROPICAL SAO PAULO, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL, 2020)

  Surveillance of Rotavirus A (RVA) throughout the national territory is important to establish a more complete epidemiological-molecular scenario of this virus circulation in Brazil. The aim of the present study was to ...
• 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, ...
• Viral gastroenteritis in Tocantins, Brazil: characterizing the diversity of human adenovirus F through next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics 

  TAHMASEBI, Roozbeh; LUCHS, Adriana; TARDY, Kaelan; HEFFORD, Philip Michael; TINKER, Rory J.; EILAMI, Owrang; MILAGRES, Flavio Augusto de Padua; BRUSTULIN, Rafael; TELES, Maria da Aparecida Rodrigues; MORAIS, Vanessa dos Santos; MOREIRA, Carlos Henrique Valente; BUCCHERI, Renata; ARAUJO, Emerson Luiz Lima; VILLANOVA, Fabiola; DENG, Xutao; SABINO, Ester Cerdeira; DELWART, Eric; LEAL, Elcio; COSTA, Antonio Charlys da (MICROBIOLOGY SOC, LONDON, ENGLAND, 2020)

  Human enteric adenovirus species F (HAdV-F) is one of the most common pathogens responsible for acute gastroenteritis worldwide. Brazil is a country with continental dimensions where continuous multiregional surveillance ...
• Mortality among blood donors seropositive and seronegative for Chagas disease (1996-2000) in Sao Paulo, Brazil: A death certificate linkage study (vol 11, e0005542, 2017) 

  CAPUANI, Ligia; BIERRENBACH, Ana Luiza; ALENCAR, Airlane Pereira; MENDRONE JR., Alfredo; FERREIRA, Joao Eduardo; CUSTER, Brian; RIBEIRO, Antonio Luiz P.; SABINO, Ester Cerdeira (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, SAN FRANCISCO, USA, 2020)
• Clinical features and natural history of the first 2073 suspected COVID-19 cases in the Corona Sao Caetano primary care programme: a prospective cohort study 

  LEAL, Fabio E.; MENDES-CORREA, Maria C.; BUSS, Lewis Fletcher; COSTA, Silvia F.; BIZARIO, Joao C. S.; SOUZA, Sonia R. P. de; THOMAZ, Osorio; TOZETTO-MENDOZA, Tania Regina; VILLAS-BOAS, Lucy S.; SILVA, Lea Campos de Oliveira-da; GRESPAN, Regina M. Z.; CAPUANI, Ligia; BUCCHERI, Renata; DOMINGUES, Helves; ALEXANDER, Neal; MAYAUD, Philippe; SABINO, Ester Cerdeira (BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP, LONDON, ENGLAND, 2021)

  Background Despite most cases not requiring hospital care, there are limited community-based clinical data on COVID-19. Methods The Corona Sao Caetano programme is a primary care initiative providing care to all residents ...
• AMB Guidelines: COVID-19 

  FERREIRA, Lincoln Lopes; SAMPAIO, Diogo Leite; CHAGAS, Antonio Carlos Palandri; GUIMARAES, Helio Penna; HAJJAR, Ludhmila Abrahao; LOBO, Suzana Margareth Ajeje; ABDO, Carmita Helena Najjar; BONAMIGO FILHO, Jose Luiz; BACHA, Helio Arthur; MOURA, Robson Freitas de; BERNARDO, Wanderley Marques (ASSOC MEDICA BRASILEIRA, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL, 2020)
• AMB Guidelines: COVID-19 

  FERREIRA, Lincoln Lopes; SAMPAIO, Diogo Leite; CHAGAS, Antonio Carlos Palandri; GUIMARAES, Helio Penna; HAJJAR, Ludhmila Abrahao; LOBO, Suzana Margareth Ajeje; ABDO, Carmita Helena Najjar; BONAMIGO FILHO, Jose Luiz; BACHA, Helio Arthur; MOURA, Robson Freitas de; BERNARDO, Wanderley Marques (ASSOC MEDICA BRASILEIRA, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL, 2020)
• Aedes aegyptifrom Amazon Basin Harbor High Diversity of Novel Viral Species 

  RIBEIRO, Geovani de Oliveira; MORAIS, Vanessa S.; MONTEIRO, Fred Julio Costa; RIBEIRO, Edcelha Soares D'Athaide; REGO, Marlisson Octavio da S.; SOUTO, Raimundo Nonato Picanco; VILLANOVA, Fabiola; TAHMASEBI, Roozbeh; HEFFORD, Philip Michael; DENG, Xutao; DELWART, Eric; SABINO, Ester Cerdeira; FERNANDES, Licia Natal; COSTA, Antonio Charlys da; LEAL, Elcio (MDPI, BASEL, SWITZERLAND, 2020)

  Viruses are the most diverse and abundant microorganisms on earth, highly adaptive to a wide range of hosts. Viral diversity within invertebrate hosts has gained notoriety in recent years in public health as several such ...
• Possible non-sylvatic transmission of yellow fever between non-human primates in SAo Paulo city, Brazil, 2017-2018 

  CUNHA, Mariana Sequetin; TUBAKI, Rosa Maria; MENEZES, Regiane Maria Tironi de; PEREIRA, Mariza; CALEIRO, Giovana Santos; COELHO, Esmenia; SAAD, Leila del Castillo; FERNANDES, Natalia Coelho Couto de Azevedo; GUERRA, Juliana Mariotti; NOGUEIRA, Juliana Silva; SUMMA, Juliana Laurito; COIMBRA, Amanda Aparecida Cardoso; ZWARG, Ticiana; WITKIN, Steven S.; MUCCI, Luis Filipe; TIMENETSKY, Maria do Carmo Sampaio Tavares; SABINO, Ester Cerdeira; DEUS, Juliana Telles de (NATURE RESEARCH, BERLIN, GERMANY, 2020)

  Yellow Fever (YF) is a severe disease caused by Yellow Fever Virus (YFV), endemic in some parts of Africa and America. In Brazil, YFV is maintained by a sylvatic transmission cycle involving non-human primates (NHP) and ...
• Characterization of HIV risks in a Brazilian sickle cell disease population 

  BLATYTA, P. F.; KELLY, S.; GONCALEZ, T. T.; CARNEIRO-PROIETTI, A. B.; SALOMON, T.; MIRANDA, C.; SABINO, E.; PREISS, L.; MAXIMO, C.; LOUREIRO, P.; CUSTER, B.; ALMEIDA-NETO, C. de (BMC, LONDON, ENGLAND, 2020)

  Background A low prevalence of HIV in sickle cell disease (SCD) patients has been reported in the literature though mechanisms for this are not understood. Methods HIV risk behaviors were compared between SCD cases and ...
• Declining antibody levels to Trypanosoma cruzi correlate with polymerase chain reaction positivity and electrocardiographic changes in a retrospective cohort of untreated Brazilian blood donors 

  BUSS, Lewis F.; SILVA, Lea Campos de Oliveira-da; MOREIRA, Carlos H. V.; MANULI, Erika R.; SALES, Flavia C.; MORALES, Ingra; GERMANIO, Clara Di; ALMEIDA-NETO, Cesar de; BAKKOUR, Sonia; CONSTABLE, Paul; PINTO-FILHO, Marcelo M.; RIBEIRO, Antonio L.; BUSCH, Michael; SABINO, Ester C. (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, SAN FRANCISCO, USA, 2020)

  Author summary Infection with the single-celled parasite Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas disease) is thought to be lifelong. However, only a third of infected people develop Chagas cardiomyopathy-the main disease manifestation. ...
• Estimation of Leishmania spp. infection in asymptomatic people from Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India by antigen-antibody and skin testing 

  JOHANSON, Gustavo Henrique; AMATO, Valdir Sabbaga; RIBEIRO, Victoria Stadler Tasca; TUON, Felipe Francisco (INST MEDICINA TROPICAL SAO PAULO, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL, 2020)

  Asymptomatic VL is a concern, considering the risk of transmission in highly endemic areas due to human-to-human transmission. The aim of this study was to report the sero-epidemiological prevalence in Bihar, India, a ...
• First case of SARS-COV-2 sequencing in cerebrospinal fluid of a patient with suspected demyelinating disease 

  DOMINGUES, Renan Barros; MENDES-CORREA, Maria Cassia; LEITE, Fernando Brunale Vilela de Moura; SABINO, Ester Cerdeira; SALARINI, Diego Zanotti; CLARO, Ingra; SANTOS, Daniel Wagner; JESUS, Jaqueline Goes de; FERREIRA, Noely Evangelista; ROMANO, Camila Malta; SOARES, Carlos Augusto Senne (SPRINGER HEIDELBERG, HEIDELBERG, GERMANY, 2020)

  The association between coronaviruses and central nervous system (CNS) demyelinating lesions has been previously shown. However, no case has been described of an association between the novel coronavirus (SARS-COV-2) and ...
• Confronting the Multidimensional Challenges of Research in the Context of Emerging Infectious Diseases in Brazil: The Example of Yellow Fever 

  AVELINO-SILVA, Vivian I.; FIGUEIREDO-MELLO, Claudia; CASADIO, Luciana V. B.; NASTRI, Ana C. S. S.; MARCILIO, Izabel; RIBEIRO, Ana F.; LEVIN, Anna S.; SABINO, Ester C. (AMER SOC TROP MED & HYGIENE, MCLEAN, USA, 2020)

  In the most recent Brazilian yellow fever (YF) outbreak, a group of clinicians and researchers initiated in mid-January 2018 a considerable effort to develop a multicenter randomized controlled clinical trial to evaluate ...
• How Ancestry Influences the Chances of Finding Unrelated Donors: An Investigation in Admixed Brazilians 

  NUNES, Kelly; AGUIAR, Vitor R. C.; SILVA, Marcio; SENA, Alexandre C.; OLIVEIRA, Danielli C. M. de; DINARDO, Carla L.; KEHDY, Fernanda S. G.; TARAZONA-SANTOS, Eduardo; ROCHA, Vanderson G.; CARNEIRO-PROIETTI, Anna Barbara F.; LOUREIRO, Paula; FLOR-PARK, Miriam V.; MAXIMO, Claudia; KELLY, Shannon; CUSTER, Brian; WEIR, Bruce S.; SABINO, Ester C.; PORTO, Luis Cristovao; MEYER, Diogo (FRONTIERS MEDIA SA, LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND, 2020)

  A match of HLA loci between patients and donors is critical for successful hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. However, the extreme polymorphism of HLA loci - an outcome of millions of years of natural selection - ...
• Herpesviruses oral shedding and viremia in renal transplant recipients: A longitudinal study 

  SARMENTO, Dmitry Jose de Santana; TOZETTO-MENDOZA, Tania Regina; SOUZA, Ana Carolina Mamana Fernandes de; MACIEL, Rafael; PAIAO, Heuder; LIMA, Silvia Helena; CRISTELLI, Marina; PESTANA, Jose Osmar Medina de Abreu; BRAZ-SILVA, Paulo Henrique; GALLOTTINI, Marina (WILEY, HOBOKEN, USA, 2020)

  Background The objective was to assess the oral shedding and viremia of human herpesviruses in renal transplant recipients. Methods This is a cohort study in which the participants were examined in three different periods: ...

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