• Comparing quality of reporting between preprints and peer-reviewed articles in the biomedical literature 

  Carneiro, Clarissa F. D; Queiroz, Victor G. S; Moulin, Thiago C; Carvalho, Carlos A. M; Hass, Clarissa B; Rayêe, Danielle; Henshall, David E; Souza, Evandro A. de; Espinelli, Felippe; Boss, Flávia Z; Guercio, Gerson D; Costa, Igor R; Hajdu, Karina L; Modrák, Martin; Tan, Pedro B; Burgess, Steven J; Guerra, Sylvia de Fátima dos Santos; Bortoluzzi, Vanessa T; Amaral, Olavo B (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2020)

  Preprint usage is growing rapidly in the life sciences; however, questions remain on the relative quality of preprints when compared to published articles. An objective dimension of quality that is readily measurable is ...

• Molecular characterization and epidemiological aspects of non-polio enteroviruses isolated from acute flaccid paralysis in Brazil: a historical series (2005–2017) 

  Sousa Júnior, Ivanildo Pedro de; Oliveira, Maria de Lourdes Aguiar; Burlandy, Fernanda M; Machado, Raiana Scerni; Oliveira, Silas S; Tavares, Fernando N; Gomes Neto, Francisco; Costa, Eliane V. da; Silva, Edson E. da (Taylor & Francis, 2020)

  Due to the advanced stage of polio eradication, the possible role of non-polio enteroviruses (NPEVs) associated to acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) cases has been highlighted. In this study, we described epidemiological aspects ...

• Doença de Chagas - Protocolos clínicos de seguimento pós-tratamento em grupos especiais: experiência do IEC com binômio mãe-filho 

  Pinto, Ana Yecê das Neves; Valente, Vera da Costa; Aguiar, Maria Cleonice Justino; Valente, Sebastião Aldo da Silva; Ramos, Francisco Lúzio de Paula; Santos, Edcleiton Marins; Mota, Bruna Daniele Lisboa; Viana, Giselle Maria Rachid (Ministério da Saúde. Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde, 2020)

• Detection and molecular characterization of rotavirus and picobirnavirus in wild avians from Amazon Forest 

  Duarte Júnior, José Wandilson Barboza; Chagas, Elaine Hellen Nunes; Serra, Ana Carolina Silva; Souto, Lizandra Caroline dos santos; Penha Júnior, Edvaldo Tavares da; Bandeira, Renato da Silva; Guimarães, Ricardo José de Paula Souza e; Oliveira, Hanna Gabriela da Silva; Sousa, Thaymes Kiara Santos; Lopes, Cinthia Távora de Albuquerque; Domingues, Sheyla Farhayldes Souza; Malik, Yashpal Singh; Salvarani, Felipe Masiero; Mascarenhas, Joana D’Arc Pereira (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2020)

  The present study reports the detection and molecular characterization of rotavirus A (RVA), rotavirus D (RVD), rotavirus F (RVF), rotavirus G (RVG) and picobirnavirus (PBV) in fecal specimens of wild and exotic birds (n ...

• Multisystem inflammatory syndrome associated with coronavirus disease in children a multi-centered study in Belem, Para, Brazil 

  Farias, Emmerson Carlos Franco de; Piva, Jefferson Pedro; Mello, Mary Lucy Ferraz Maria Fiuza de; Nascimento, Luciana M. P. P. do; Costa, Carina C; Machado, Mayara M. M; Rodrigues, Thatiane da S; Carvalho, Railana D. F. P; Alves, Marília C. B; Aires, Larisse F. Q; Cotta, Marilia L. M; Pedreira, Ana R. G; Saraty, Salma B; Lima, Miriam C; Justino, Maria Cleonice Aguiar (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2020)

  We described the characteristics of 11 children with pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome-temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2. The main clinical indications for hospital admission were vasogenic toxic shock (n = ...

• Near-complete genome of cosavirus A from a child hospitalized with acute gastroenteritis, Brazil 

  Lobo, Patrícia dos Santos; Cardoso, Jedson Ferreira; Barata, Rafael Ribeiro; Lemos, Poliana da Silva; Guerra, Sylvia de Fátima dos Santos; Soares, Luana da Silva; Nunes, Marcio Roberto Teixeira; Mascarenhas, Joana D’Arc Pereira (Elsevier, 2020)

  Acute gastroenteritis (AG) is responsible for 525,000 deaths worldwide in children under-5-years and is caused by the Human Cosavirus (HCoSV; family Picornaviridae, Genus Cosavirus). Although its health importance, a ...

• Detection and identification of enteroviruses circulating in children with acute gastroenteritis in Pará State, Northern Brazil (2010–2011) 

  Machado, Raiana Scerni; Sousa Jr, Ivanildo Pedro de Sousa; Monteiro, Jacqueline Cortinhas; Ferreira, James Lima; Alves, Jainara Cristina dos Santos; Tavares, Fernando Neto (BMC, 2020)

  Although acute gastroenteritis (AGE) has been reported as a common infectious disease in children, there is scarce information about enterovirus (EV) circulating associated with AGE cases in Brazil. The purpose of the ...

• Prevalence and epidemiological characteristics of human immunodeficiency virus-1 infection in an iron mining area with intense migratory flow in Pará State, Brazilian amazon, 2005–2014 

  Macêdo, olinda; Freitas, Felipe Bonfim; Reis, Raimundo Macedo dos; Bensabath, Gilberta; Nunes, Heloisa Marceliano; Siqueira, Jones Anderson Monteiro; Gabbay, Yvone Benchimol (Springer Verlag, 2020)

  Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a major global public health problem. The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of HIV-1 infection in four municipalities ...

• Síndrome inflamatória multissistêmica em criança associada à doença do coronavírus 19 na amazônia brasileira: evolução fatal em lactente 

  Farias, Emmerson Carlos Franco de; Justino, Maria Cleonice Aguiar; Mello, Mary Lucy Ferraz Maria Fiuza de (Sociedade de Pediatria de São Paulo, 2020)

  Objetivo: Recentemente, foram descritos relatos de crianças com exame positivo para o coronavírus da síndrome respiratória aguda grave 2 (SARS-CoV-2) associado à disfunção de múltiplos órgãos, secundária à hiperinflamação, ...

• Evolutionary and molecular analysis of complete genome sequences of norovirus from Brazil: emerging recombinant strain GII.P16/GII.4 

  Hernandez, Juliana Merces; Silva, Luciana Damascena da; Sousa Júnior, Edivaldo Costa; Cardoso, Jedson Ferreira; Reymão, Tammy Kathlyn Amaral; Portela, Ana Caroline Rodrigues; Lima, Clayton Pereira Silva de; Teixeira, Dielle Monteiro; Lucena, Maria Silvia Souza; Nunes, Marcio Roberto Teixeira; Gabbay, Yvone Benchimol (Frontiers Media, 2020)

  Noroviruses (NoVs) are enteric viruses that cause acute gastroenteritis, and the pandemic GII.4 genotype is spreading and evolving rapidly. The recombinant GII.P16/GII.4_Sydney strain emerged in 2016, replacing ...

• Genotypes of Epstein–Barr virus (EBV1/EBV2) in individuals with infectious mononucleosis in the metropolitan area of Belém, Brazil, between 2005 and 2016 

  Monteiro, Talita Antônia Furtado; Costa, Iran Barros; Costa, Igor; Corrêa, Thais Letícia dos Santos; Coelho, Beatriz Monteiro Rodrigues; Silva, Amanda Emanuelle Santos; Ramos, Francisco Lúzio de Paula; Martins Filho, Arnaldo Jorge; Monteiro, José Luiz Furtado; Siqueira, Jones Anderson Monteiro; Gabbay, Yvone Benchimol; Sousa, Rita Catarina Medeiros (Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases, 2020)

  Two types of Epstein Barr virus (EBV1/EBV2) have been shown to infect humans. Although their genomes are similar, the regions containing the EBNA genes differ. This study aimed to characterize the EBV genotypes of infectious ...

• Detection of human polyomavirus 2 (HPyV2) in oyster samples in northern Brazil 

  Abreu, Isabella Nogueira; Cortinhas, Jacqueline Monteiro; Santos, Mike Barbosa dos; Queiroz, Maria Alice Freitas; Silva, Andréa Nazaré Monteiro Rangel da; Cayres-Vallinoto, Izaura Maria Vieira; Vallinoto, Antonio Carlos Rosário (BMC, 2020)

  Background: Human polyomavirus 2 (HPyV2 or JCPyV) is persistent in the environment due to its excretion in urine and feces; it is detected in samples of wastewater, surface water and drinking water. A lack of basic ...

• Whole-genome sequencing of an unusual human papillomavirus (HPV71) from Latin America (Brazil) 

  Sousa Júnior, Edivaldo Costa; Silva, Allan Kaio; Reis, Laryssa Danielle da Silva; Fonseca, Lana Patricia da Silva; Silva, Fabiano Reis da; Santos, Fabiolla da Silva dos; Ferreira, Jessylene Almeida; Lima, Clayton Pereira Silva de; Abreu, Michelle Carvalho de; Silvestre, Rodrigo Vellasco Duarte; Nunes, Marcio Roberto Teixeira (American Society for Microbiology, 2020)

  We report the complete genome sequencing of human papillomavirus 71 from Latin America (Brazil).

• Low prevalence of human pegivirus 1 (HPgV-1) in HTLV-1 carriers from Belém, Pará, North Region of Brazil 

  Lima, Ana Beatriz Figueiredo de; Sá, Keyla Santos Guedes de; Torres, Maria Karoliny da Silva; Soares, Luana da Silva; Resques, Hugo Reis; Azevedo, Vânia Nakauth; Feitosa, Rosimar Neris Martins; Monteiro, Jacqueline Cortinhas; Silva, Andrea Nazaré Monteiro Rangel da; Ribeiro, Andre Luis Ribeiro; Oliveira-Filho, Aldemir Branco de; Vallinoto, Antonio Carlos Rosario; Machado, Luiz Fernando Almeida (Public Library of Science, 2020)

  Introduction - Human pegivirus 1 (HPgV-1) is a single-stranded, positive-sense RNA virus belonging to the Flaviviridae family with limited cause-effect evidence of the causation of human diseases. However, studies have ...

• Atypical hand-foot-mouth disease in Belém, Amazon region, northern Brazil, with detection of coxsackievirus A6 

  Justino, Maria Cleonice Aguiar; Mesquita, Deisiane da S; Souza, Maurício F; Farias, Francisco P; Alves, Jainara Cristina dos S; Ferreira, James L; Lopes, Daniela P; Tavares, Fernando Neto (Elsevier, 2020)

  BACKGROUND: Enterovirus (EV) A71 and coxsackievirus (CV) A16 were the most frequent serotypes involved in hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) outbreaks throughout Asia. In the past 5 years, however, CV-A6 has emerged as ...

• Genetic evolution of influenza viruses among selected countries in Latin America, 2017–2018 

  Leite, Juliana Almeida; Resende, Paola; Araya, Jenny Lara; Barrera, Gisela Badillo; Baumeister, Elsa; Caicedo, Alfredo Bruno; Coppola, Leticia; Mello, Wyller Alencar de; Mora, Domenica de; Santos, Mirleide Cordeiro dos; Fasce, Rodrigo; Fernández, Jorge; Goñi, Natalia; Martínez, Irma López; Mayhua, Jannet Otárola; Motta, Fernando; Nuñez, Maribel Carmen Huaringa; Ojeda, Jenny; Ortega, María José; Ospitia, Erika; Paiva, Terezinha Maria de; Pontoriero, Andrea; Porras, Hebleen Brenes; Quinonez, Jose Alberto Diaz; Ramas, Viviana; Ramírez, Juliana Barbosa; Santos, Katia Correa de Oliveira; Siqueira, Marilda Mendonça; Vàzquez, Cynthia; Palekar, Rakhee (Public Library of Science, 2020)

  OBJECTIVE: Since the 2009 influenza pandemic, Latin American (LA) countries have strengthened their influenza surveillance systems. We analyzed influenza genetic sequence data from the 2017 through 2018 Southern Hemisphere ...

• Enterovirus detection and serotyping of fecal material collected from three children living on the outskirts of Belem city, Amazon region, Brazil, during the first 3 years of life (1983-1986) 

  Coutinho, Carla Rafaela Monteiro; Siqueira, Jones Anderson Monteiro; Machado, Raiana Scerni; Bandeira, Renato da Silva; Ferreira, James Lima; Alves, Jainara Cristina dos Santos; Gabbay, Yvone Benchimol; Tavares, Fernando Neto (Wiley, 2020)

  In the current investigation, fecal material was obtained during a community‐based longitudinal study conducted from 1983 to 1986. This study consisted of 71 children aged newborn to 3 years. A total of 216 samples from ...

• Characterization of rotavirus possessing a DS-1-like VP3 gene from pigs in Brazil: evidence for zooanthroponotic transmission 

  Neves, Mayara A. O; Sousa Júnior, Alcinês da Silva; Camargo, Daniel S. de; Lobo, Patrícia S; Bandeira, Renato S; Soares, Luana da Silva; Mascarenhas, Joana D'Arc Pereira (Elsevier, 2020)

  Porcine group A rotavirus (RVA) strains SUI15A and SUI24A are suggested to have VP3 genes of human origin possessing DS-1-like backbone. The aim of the present study was to analyse the genome of two strains (SUI15A and ...

• Desempenho do Pediatric Risk of Mortality (PRISM) e Pediatric Index of Mortality 2 (PIM2) em unidade de terapia intensiva pediátrica terciária na Amazônia brasileira 

  Farias, Emmerson Carlos Franco de; Carvalho, Patrícia Barbosa de; Nascimento, Luciana Maria Passos Pinto do; Mello, Mary Lucy Ferraz Maria Fiuza de; Santana, Angélica de Abreu; Diniz, Susan Sales; Pinheiro, Anna Paula Santos; Costa, Igor Brasil (MS/SVS/Instituto Evandro Chagas, 2019)

  OBJETIVO: Avaliar o desempenho dos escores de mortalidade Pediatric Risk of Mortality (PRISM) e Pediatric Index of Mortality 2 (PIM2) na Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Pediátrica (UTIP) Terciária da Fundação Santa Casa ...

• Memórias do Instituto Evandro Chagas, v. 8 

  Instituto Evandro Chagas (Ananindeua) (MS/SVS/Instituto Evandro Chagas, 2006)

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