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International meeting: New diagnostic tests are urgently needed to treat patients with Chagas disease. [PDF]
, 2008 Trypanosoma cruzi infection is often not detected early on or actively diagnosed, partly because most infected individuals are either asymptomatic or oligosymptomatic.
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Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia, 2008 AbstractBacteria of the Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc), a group of nine related species, are opportunistic pathogens in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, associated with a poor prognosis and patient-to-patient transmissibility. The pulmonary deterioration in Bcc-colonised/ infected patients has a heterogeneous pattern leading, sometimes, to a ...
Celeste Barreto +5 more
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Tratamento da tuberculose de infecção latente. As recomendações actuais
Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia, 2010 Diagnosis and treatment of latent infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (LTBI), significantly reduces the risk of developing active tuberculosis and the transmission of the disease in the community. LTBI screening must pass by the exclusion of active disease (symptoms enquiry and chest radiography) and assessment of immune response to Mycobacterium
Duarte, R, Villar, M, Carvalho, A
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Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia, 2008 AbstractIn spite of the availability and widespread use of vaccines, pertussis is far from controlled. Newborns and infants too young to be fully vaccinated, born from mothers with low antibody titers to Bordetella pertussis, are highly susceptible to infection and at risk of severe disease and death. Pertussis associated with pulmonary hypertension in
Susana Pissarra +6 more
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Incidence of infectious complications and their risk factors in the first year after renal transplantation [PDF]
, 2010 INTRODUCTION: Infectious complications significantly increase morbidity and mortality after renal transplantation. The immunosuppression used is the main risk factor and relates directly to the incidence and severity of infectious events.
Barbosa, Dulce Aparecida +3 more
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Vigilância Sanitária em Debate, 2014 Objetivo: Analisar a prevalência de infecção hospitalar primária da corrente sanguínea em uma Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Neonatal. Métodos: Estudo retrospectivo, com análise de prontuários de uma Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Neonatal, no período de janeiro a dezembro de 2010.
Marcelo Luiz Abramczyk +2 more
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Resposta imune na infecção por Leishmania infantum em modelo murino [PDF]
, 2011 As leishmanioses são doenças causadas por protozoários do género Leishmania que são parasitas intracelulares obrigatórios das células fagocíticas.
Cabrita, Élia +2 more
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Cadernos de Saúde, 2010 A antibioterapia profiláctica tem como objectivo a prevenção da infecção através da administração de antimicrobianos. Há benefícios e prejuízos potenciais nesta atitude médica pelo que é imperiosa uma análise dos custos-benefícios envolvidos, que deve ...
Carlos Vasconcelos +1 more
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Veterinary Dermatology, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 187-e39, June 2020., 2020 Background Bacterial densities likely fluctuate during infection and may exceed the bacterial density used in susceptibility testing. As such, investigation of bacterial killing by antibiotics over a range of varying bacterial densities may provide important differences between compounds and could impact drug selection for therapy.
Joseph M. Blondeau, Shantelle D. Fitch
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Infections in patients submitted to hemodialysis: a systematic review [PDF]
, 2009 OBJETIVOS: Os procedimentos dialíticos para a correção da lesão renal têm a infecção como uma das principais complicações, com impacto significante na morbi-mortalidade em pacientes dialíticos crônicos e agudos críticos.
CAIS, Daiane Patricia +2 more
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