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'It is like a tomato stall where someone can pick what he likes': structure and practices of female sex work in Kampala, Uganda. [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Effective interventions among female sex workers require a thorough knowledge of the context of local sex industries. We explore the organisation of female sex work in a low socio-economic setting in Kampala, Uganda.
A-M Cote, AH Norris, C Harcourt, D Whittaker, F Scorgie, F Van den Borne, G Asiki, I Vanwesenbeeck, IB Zablotska, J Bukenya, J Nazziwa, J Seeley, J Vandepitte, J Vandepitte, JAA Munoz, Janet Seeley, JP Ntozi, Judith Vandepitte, K Fritz, L Van Blerk, M Gysels, M Mbonye, Martin Mbonye, ML Rekart, NTT Thuy, PM Pyett, QA Karim, Rachel King, S Baral, S Jana, Sarah Nakamanya, SC Kalichman, SE Woolf-King, UNAIDS, Winifred Nalukenge   +34 more
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Deep Vein Thrombosis in Critically Ill Patients with COVID‐19 Pneumonia

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, EarlyView.
Objectives The risk of major venous thromboembolism (VTE) among patients with COVID‐19 is high but varies with disease severity. Estimate the incidence of lower extremity deep venous thrombosis (DVT) in critically ill hospitalized patients with COVID‐19, validate the Wells score for DVT diagnosis, and determine patients' prognosis.
Clévio Cezar da Fonseca, Hugo Perazzo, Sandra Wagner Cardoso, Isabel Cristina Ferreira Tavares, Maria Pia Diniz Ribeiro, Rodrigo de Carvalho Moreira, Lara Esteves Coelho, Emília Moreira Jalil, André Miguel Japiassú, Elias Pimentel Gouvêa, Estevão Portela Nunes, Hugo Boechat Andrade, Luciano Barros Gouvêa, Marcel Treptow Ferreira, Pedro Mendes Azambuja‐Rodrigues, Ronaldo Ismerio Moreira, Kim Mattos Geraldo, Lucilene Araújo de Freitas, Vinicius Velleda Pacheco, Beatriz Gilda Jegerhorn Grinsztein, Pedro Emmanuel Alvarenga Americano do Brasil   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chagas disease and systemic autoimmune diseases among Bolivian patients in Switzerland

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2018
BACKGROUND Chronic cardiomyopathy occurs in 20-40% of the patients with Chagas disease. Autoimmune mechanisms may contribute to its pathogenesis. We diagnosed several cases of systemic autoimmune diseases among Bolivian migrants in Geneva with a high ...
Yves Jackson, Drenusha Vieira de Mello Pula, Axel Finckh, Carlo Chizzolini, François Chappuis   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Repurposing of terconazole as an anti Trypanosoma cruzi agent [PDF]

, 2019
Trypanosoma cruzi is the causative agent of Chagas disease, a parasitic infection endemic in Latin America. Currently there are no effective treatments for the chronic phase of the disease, when most patients are diagnosed, therefore the development of ...
Martínez Sayé, Melisa Soledad, Miranda, Mariana Reneé, Pereira, Claudio Alejandro, Reigada, Chantal, Valera Vera, Edward Augusto   +4 more
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Modifying Antibiotic Activity of Synthetic Thiadiazine Analogs Against MDR Bacteria and ADMET Analysis

ChemistryOpen, EarlyView.
The study demonstrated that thidiazine compounds potentiated the action of antibiotics. The compounds associated with norfloxacin against S. aureus showed greater significance in relation to the other medications. The indiscriminate use of antibiotics has led to the selection of resistant bacterial strains, significantly reducing the effectiveness of ...
João Arthur de Oliveira Borges, Priscilla Ramos Freitas, Isaac Moura Araújo, Ray Silva de Almeida, Igor José dos Santos Nascimento, João Xavier de Araújo‐Júnior, Edeildo Ferreira da Silva‐Júnior, Thiago Mendonça de Aquino, Francisco Jaime Bezerra Mendonça Junior, Emmanuel Silva Marinho, Hélcio Silva dos Santos, Radosław Kowalski, Grażyna Kowalska, Henrique Douglas Melo Coutinho, Saulo Relison Tintino, Ana Carolina Justino de Araújo   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping of Chagas disease research: analysis of publications in the period between 1940 and 2009

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2011
INTRODUCTION: Publications are often used as a measure of success in research work. Chagas disease occurs in Central and Southern America. However, during the past years, the disease has been occurring outside Latin America due to migration from endemic ...
José Manuel Ramos, Gregorio González-Alcaide, Joaquín Gascón, Félix Gutiérrez   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

TcI isolates of Trypanosoma cruzi exploit the antioxidant network for enhanced intracellular survival in macrophages and virulence in mice [PDF]

, 2016
Trypanosoma cruzi species is categorized into six discrete typing units (TcI to TcVI) of which TcI is most abundantly noted in the sylvatic transmission cycle and considered the major cause of human disease. In our study, the TcI strains Colombiana (COL),
Basombrío, Miguel Ángel Manuel, Dhiman, Monisha, Garg, Nisha J., Hosakote, Yashoda M., Koo, Sue Jie, Parodi­ Talice, Adriana, Piñeyro, María Dolores, Robello, Carlos, Zago, María Paola   +8 more
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Key Regulators of Parasite Biology Viewed Through a Post‐Translational Modification Repertoire

PROTEOMICS, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Parasites are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in both humans and animals, imposing substantial socioeconomic burdens worldwide. Controlling parasitic diseases has become one of the key issues in achieving “One Health”. Most parasites have sophisticated life cycles exhibiting progressive developmental stages, morphologies, and ...
Naiwen Zhang, Ning Jiang, Qijun Chen
wiley   +1 more source

Risks of endemicity, morbidity and perspectives regarding the control of Chagas disease in the Amazon Region

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2012
Chagas disease, in the Amazon Region as elsewhere, can be considered an enzootic disease of wild animals or an anthropozoonosis, an accidental disease of humans that is acquired when humans penetrate a wild ecosystem or when wild triatomines invade human
José Rodrigues Coura, Angela CV Junqueira   +1 more
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Integrated control of chagas disease for its elimination as public health problem: A review [PDF]

, 2015
Chagas disease or American trypanosomiasis is, together with geohelminths, the neglected disease that causes more loss of years of healthy life due to disability in Latin America.
Segura, Elsa Leonor, Sosa-Estani, Sergio Alejandro   +1 more
core   +4 more sources