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Infectious disease frequency in pregnant women of Aparecida de Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil/Frequência de doenças infecciosas em gestantes de Aparecida de Goiânia, Goiás, Brasil

Diversitas Journal, 2020
The gestational period is not an infection problem that affects maternal and fetal health. There are risks of developing infectious diseases transmitted vertically, which can lead to several problems in the development and vitality of the future ...
Suzanna Marielle Silva de Oliveira, Murilo Barros Silveira, Andrea Alves Ribeiro, Flávia Martins Nascente, João Vicente Macedo Filho, Ana Maria de Castro, Juliana Boaventura Avelar   +6 more
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Smart Closed‐Loop Systems in Personalized Healthcare: Advances and Outlook

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
A smart closed‐loop e‐textile integrates multimodal sensing, onboard processing, wireless communication, and wearable power to enable real‐time physiological/biochemical monitoring and feedback‐controlled therapy. ABSTRACT Smart textiles represent a revolutionary frontier in healthcare, seamlessly blending fabric and advanced technologies to create ...
Safoora Khosravi, Sang Won Lee, Mohammad Abrar Uddin, Sina Hassanpoor, Neha Suvindran, Katherine Le, Harun Arkaz, Harishkumar Narayana, Saeid Soltanian, Danial Khorsandi, Negar Hosseinzadeh Kouchehbaghi, Taeil Kim, Yangzhi Zhu   +12 more
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Mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the Southern Region of Santa Catarina, from 2005 to 2015: analysis of risk factors to seroconversion in newborns

Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil
Objectives: to analyze both frequency and risk factors for seroconversion among newborns of HIV-positive mothers to HIV. Methods: a cohort study was conducted with children residing in Southern Region of Santa Catarina.
Karen Waleska Kniphoff de Oliveira, Suzana Kniphoff de Oliveira, Ana Beatriz Sanches Barranco, Tamara Hoffmann, Camila Soares Duarte, Rayane Felippe Nazário, Chaiana Esmeraldino Mendes Marcon, Fabiana Schuelter-Trevisol   +7 more
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Congenital syphilis: literature review

Revista de Epidemiologia e Controle de Infecção, 2013
Syphilis is an infectious disease caused by Treponema pallidum and has high rates of vertical transmission, which can reach 100% depending on the maternal disease and stage of pregnancy.
Eduardo Chaida Sonda, Felipe Farias Richter, Graziela Boschetti, Marcela Pase Casasola, Candice Franke Krumel, Cristiane Pimentel Hernandes Machado   +5 more
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Flexible Implantable Silicon Carbide Multi‐Electrode Array (MEA) for Cell Multichannel Recording and Cell Ablation

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Flexible silicon carbide (SiC) microelectrode arrays enable high‐fidelity, multichannel cell extracellular recording and precise localized ablation. SiC has been extensively evaluated to persist long‐term in chronic physiological conditions while remaining robust, with excellent electrical and electrochemical stability.
Minh Anh Huynh, Matthew Barton, Sharda Yadav, Tuan‐Khoa Nguyen, Nam‐Trung Nguyen   +4 more
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Seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis, syphilis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, rubella, cytomegalovirosis and human immunodeficiency virus infection among pregnant patients followed up from 2008 to 2012 at hospital universitário Antônio Pedro, Niterói RJ

DST, 2022
Introduction: Screening and treatment of infectious diseases in pregnant women have great importance in planning preventive actions and development of maternal and child health policies.
Solange Artimos de Oliveira, Remberto Mauricio de la Cruz Vargas Vilte, Kátia Martins Lopes de Azevedo, Sérgio Setúbal   +3 more
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Optimal control of the dengue dynamical transmission with vertical transmission

Advances in Difference Equations, 2019
Dengue disease is found in tropical and subtropical regions around the world. Dengue virus is the cause of dengue fever, dengue hemorrhagic fever, and dengue shock syndrome. It consists of 4 serotypes: DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3, and DEN-4.
Puntani Pongsumpun, I.-Ming Tang, Napasool Wongvanich   +2 more
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Strong‐Magnetic Flexible Composites for Magnetically Responsive Soft Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This perspective provides an overview of the performance mechanisms, preparation methods, and applications of strong magnetic flexible composite materials in soft actuators (such as gripping, movement, and sensing), and further explores current opportunities and challenges.
Wenwen Li, Shuai Liu, Xinyi Wang, Xinglong Gong, Shouhu Xuan   +4 more
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Prevalence of syphilis, HIV and toxoplasmosis in prenatal screening in the population of the northern region of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

DST, 2021
Introduction: There is a need for studies to know the real situation and outline measures to guarantee a reduction in the rates of pregnant women diagnosed with HIV, Syphilis and Toxoplasmosis. Objective: To determine the prevalence of Syphilis, HIV and
Yasmim Henrique de Souza Almeida, Hugo Freitas Viégas Fernandes, Carolina Maria Leal Rosas, Ellen Diniz de Menezes, Regina Célia de Souza Campos Fernandes, Thais Louvain de Souza   +5 more
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Tumbling Magnetic Microrobots for Targeted In Vivo Drug Delivery in the GI Tract

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
We introduce a microrobot design and integrated system for on‐demand targeted drug release in the gastrointestinal tract. The microrobot has an embedded magnet for actuation with external magnetic fields and is visualized in real time using ultrasound. It has two drug release ports sealed with a thermally sensitive wax. Local heating of the wax using a
Aaron C. Davis, Luis Carlos Sanjuan Acosta, Shubh P. Mehta, Baiyan Qi, Yang Yang, Luis Solorio, Craig J. Goergen, David J. Cappelleri   +7 more
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