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Lateral-Flow Assay for Rapid Serodiagnosis of Human Leptospirosis [PDF]

, 2001
An assay device for the rapid detection of Leptospira-specific immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies in human sera is presented. The sensitivity (85.8%) and specificity (93.6%) of the assay compared well (91.9% agreement) with those of an IgM enzyme-linked ...
Smits, H. L., Kuriakose, M., Abdoel, Theresia H, Gasem, M. Hussein, Sugathan, Sheela, Smits, Henk L., Pujianto, B., Sasaki, David, Sasaki, D., Vestering, Marc, Abdoel, T. H., Kuriakose, Mariamma, Gussenhoven, G. C., Eapen, C. K., Gasem, M. H., Pujianto, Bambang, Yersin, C., Gussenhoven, George C, Sugathan, S., Vestering, M., Yersin, Claude   +20 more
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Torque teno virus as a marker of immune status in immunocompromised patients: A systematic review. [PDF]

Eur J Clin Invest
Abstract Background Torque teno virus (TTV) is not known to cause disease in humans; however, chronic inflammatory conditions and immunosuppression states can favour TTV replication. This study aimed to verify the effectiveness of TTV as an immune biomarker.
Medina JB, França Vieira E Silva F, Caixeta RAV, de Oliveira Rech B, Perez-Jardón A, Padín-Iruegas ME, Pérez-Sayáns M, Braz-Silva PH, Ortega KL.   +8 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

HIV testing in the maternity ward and the start of breastfeeding: a survival analysis

Jornal de Pediatria (Versão em Português), 2015
Objective: The purpose of this study was to analyze the influence of the time between birth and the beginning of breastfeeding, especially at the moment of the rapid HIV test results at hospital admission for delivery.
Glaucia T. Possolli, Márcia L. de Carvalho, Maria Inês C. de Oliveira   +2 more
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Serodiagnosis of Echinococcus spp. infection: explorative selection of diagnostic antigens by peptide microarray [PDF]

, 2010
BACKGROUND: Production of native antigens for serodiagnosis of helminthic infections is laborious and hampered by batch-to-batch variation. For serodiagnosis of echinococcosis, especially cystic disease, most screening tests rely on crude or purified ...
Maag, Eva, List, C, List, C., Gottstein, Bruno, Gottstein Bruno, Felger Ingrid, Felger, Ingrid, Qi, W, Gottstein, B., Ingrid Felger, Maag Eva, Qi Weihong, Müller, N., Felger, I, Müller, Norbert, Norbert Müller, List, Claudia, Gottstein, B, Müller Norbert, Felger, I., Maag, E., Müller, N, Qi, W., Eva Maag, Bruno Gottstein, List Claudia, Claudia List, Maag, E, Qi, Weihong, Weihong Qi   +29 more
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Sexually transmitted infections associated syndromes assisted in the primary health care in Northeast, Brazil

BMC Public Health, 2012
Background The lack of information on the care for sexually transmitted infections (STI) associated syndromes may contribute for its non-inclusion as prevention and control strategy for STI in Brazil.
Cavalcante Elani Graça, Araújo Maria Alix, Galvão Marli Teresinha, de Moura Heber, Gondim Ana Paula, da Silva Raimunda   +5 more
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Depression in women infected with HIV [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, 2006
OBJETIVE:The number of women with HIV infection has been on the rise in recent years, making studies of the psychiatric aspects of this condition very important.
Valéria Antakly de Mello, André Malbergier   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

HIV surveillance in needlestick accidents with health workers [PDF]

Revista Brasileira em Promoção da Saúde, 2010
Objective: To characterize the occurrence of needlestick accidents with health professionals submitted to rapid HIV tests. Methods: A descriptive, epidemiological study, carried out by notification of the occurrence of needlestick accidents in the ...
Janete Lane Amadei, Carina Ivatiuk
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Quality of Life of Pregnant Women Living with HIV/AIDS [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia, 2016
Objective to evaluate the quality of life of HIV positive (HIVþ) pregnant women using the HIV/AIDS Target Quality of Life (HAT-QoL) instrument. Methods cross-sectional study, conducted between May 2014 and November 2015 , with HIVþ pregnant women ...
Marysabel Pinto Telis Silveira, Mariângela Freitas Silveira, Cristina Heloisa Müller   +2 more
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Epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of pregnant women living with HIV/AIDS in a region of Southern Brazil where the subtype C of HIV-1 infection predominates

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2011
Southern Brazil has the highest prevalence rate of AIDS in the country and is the only region in the Americas where HIV-1 subtype C prevails. Objective: We evaluated the epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of pregnant women living with HIV/AIDS in
Sandra Aparecida Manenti, MSc, João Galato Júnior, Elizângela da Silva Silveira, Roberto Teixeira Oenning, Priscyla Waleska Targino de Azevedo Simões, MSc, Jeverson Moreira, Celine Maria Fochesato, Luís Fernando de Macedo Brígido, PhD, Rosângela Rodrigues, Pedro Roosevelt Torres Romão, PhD   +9 more
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Acroangiodermatitis (pseudo-Kaposi's sarcoma) in an HIV sero-positive patient with syphilis and hepatitis C virus coinfection: clinical and dermatopathological features [PDF]

Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2014
Acroangiodermatitis is an angioproliferative disease usually related to chronic venous insufficiency, and it is considered a clinical and histological simulator of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS).
Fred Bernardes Filho, Gustavo Martins, José Augusto da Costa Nery, Cecília Vianna de Andrade, Bernard Kawa Kac   +4 more
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