PATUà - Repositório Digital do Instituto Evandro Chagas: Recent submissions
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Detection and molecular characterization of rotavirus and picobirnavirus in wild avians from Amazon Forest
(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 ... -
Análise multitemporal de focos de queimadas e variáveis climáticas, no estado do Pará
(Universidade Federal de Roraima. Instituto de Geociências. Departamento de Geografia. Laboratório de Métricas da Paisagem, 2020)As queimadas estão entre os principais problemas ambientais no Brasil, sendo considerado um dos fatores primordiais na destruição e ameaça a biodiversidade. Diante disso, o objetivo deste trabalho foi à elaboração de uma ... -
Spatial patterns of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: correlation with sociodemographic variables and type of notification
(Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2020)Objective: Correlate the cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and its spatial patterns with the type of notification and sociodemographic variables. Method: Ecological study carried out in the municipality of Belém, ... -
Pseudomonas aeruginosa type III secretion system virulotypes and their association with clinical features of cystic fibrosis patients
(Dove Medical Press, 2020)Purpose: Pseudomonas aeruginosa appears as the main pathogen in cystic fibrosis (CF) involved in recurrent pneumonia and pulmonary exacerbations. The type III secretion system (T3SS) is one of its main determinants of ... -
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome associated with coronavirus disease in children a multi-centered study in Belem, Para, Brazil
(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 = ... -
Clinical, cardiological and serologic follow-up of Chagas Disease in children and adolescents from the Amazon Region, Brazil: longitudinal study
(MDPI, 2020)Background:Outbreaks of Chagas disease (CD) by foodborne transmission is a problem related to deforestation, exposing people to triatomines infected by T. cruzi, in the Amazon region. Once involving long-time follow-up, ... -
Near-complete genome of cosavirus A from a child hospitalized with acute gastroenteritis, Brazil
(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 ... -
Mitochondrial genome sequencing and phylogeny of Haemagogus albomaculatus, Haemagogus leucocelaenus, Haemagogus spegazzinii, and Haemagogus tropicalis (Diptera: Culicidae)
(Nature Research, 2020)The genus Haemagogus (Diptera: Culicidae) comprises species of great epidemiological relevance, involved in transmission cycles of the Yellow fever virus and other arboviruses in South America. So far, only Haemagogus ... -
Human pegivirus (HPgV, GBV-C) RNA in volunteer blood donors from a public hemotherapy service in Northern Brazil
(BMC, 2020)Human pegivirus (HPgV)—formerly known as GBV-C—is a member of the Flaviviridae family and belongs to the species Pegivirus C. It is a non-pathogenic virus and is transmitted among humans mainly through the exposure to ... -
Detection and identification of enteroviruses circulating in children with acute gastroenteritis in Pará State, Northern Brazil (2010–2011)
(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 ... -
Chronic methylmercury exposure causes spinal cord impairment: proteomic modulation and oxidative stress
(Elsevier, 2020)Methylmercury (MeHg) is considered by the World Health Organization (WHO) as one of the chemicals of greatest public health concern. Although central nervous system (CNS) is the main target organ, the effects over the ... -
The use of the circulating cathodic antigen (Cca) urine cassette assay for the diagnosis and assessment of cure of schistosoma mansoni infections in an endemic
(Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2020)INTRODUCTION: Schistosomiasis is a poverty-related disease that affects people in 78 countries worldwide. This study aimed to evaluate the point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen (POC-CCA) test performance using sensitive ... -
Insect-specific viruses and arboviruses in adult male culicids from Midwestern Brazil
(Elsevier, 2020)Viruses were identified from male anthropophilic mosquitoes from Mato Grosso (MT) State, Midwest Brazil from February 2017 to January 2018. Mosquitoes tested included Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti (1139 males; 84 pools), Culex ... -
Geochemical background concentrations of potentially toxic elements in soils of the Carajás Mineral Province, southeast of the Amazonian Craton
(Springer Verlag, 2020)The objective of this study was to establish background concentrations of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in soils from the Carajás Mineral Province (CMP), southeastern Amazonian Craton. The PTEs Al, Ba, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, ... -
Evaluation of immunoglobulin M-specific capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays and commercial tests for flaviviruses diagnosis by a National Reference Laboratory
(Elsevier, 2020)Zika and Dengue viruses present considerable immunological cross-reactivity, resulting in a troublesome serodiagnosis due to occurrence of false positive results. Due to Brazil’s wide variety of circulating flaviviruses ... -
Characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis var. africanum isolated from a patient with pulmonary tuberculosis in Brazil
(Elsevier, 2020)Human tuberculosis (TB) is caused by members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC), including Mycobacterium tuberculosis var. tuberculosis (MTB) and Mycobacterium tuberculosis var. africanum (MAF). While MTB is ... -
The innate immune response in Zika virus infection
(Wiley, 2020)Zika virus (ZIKV; Flaviviridae, Flavivirus) was discovered in 1947 in Uganda, Africa, from the serum of a sentinel Rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta). It is an enveloped, positive‐sense, single‐stranded RNA virus, which encodes ... -
The complexity of respiratory disease associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection: from immunopathogenesis to respiratory therapy
(Wiley, 2020)Covid-19, a disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, may present with polymorphic symptomatology and subclinical, neurological, gastrointestinal, dermatological, renal and ... -
In silico improvement of the cyanobacterial lectin microvirin and mannose interaction
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)Lectins that bind to HIV envelope glycoprotein can inhibit virus-cell fusion and be used for rational drug design. This paper presents the results of anin silicoapproach to improve affinity interaction between the ... -
Risk of Zika virus-associated birth defects in congenital confirmed cases in the Brazilian Amazon
(Pan American Health Organization, 2020)Objective. To establish the risk of microcephaly in neonates born to women infected with ZIKV during pregnancy. Methods. A cohort of laboratory-confirmed ZIKV cases of congenital infections (109 mothers infected ...