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Cryptic Plasmodium chronic infections: was Maurizio Ascoli right?

Malaria Journal, 2020
Cryptic Plasmodium niches outside the liver possibly represent a major source of hypnozoite-unrelated recrudescences in malaria. Maurizio Ascoli, an Italian physician and scientist, suggested that infection was maintained as a result of the persistence ...
Wuelton Monteiro, José Diego Brito-Sousa, Aleix Elizalde-Torrent, Camila Bôtto-Menezes, Gisely Cardoso Melo, Carmen Fernandez-Becerra, Marcus Lacerda, Hernando A. del Portillo   +7 more
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Does ICG use during R-VEIL provide relevant clinical advantages? Technical aspects and preliminary results

Urology Video Journal
Introduction: Robotic video endoscopic inguinal lymphadenectomy (R-VEIL) is a minimally invasive alternative to open inguinal lymphadenectomy. The procedure reduce morbidity and maintains oncological efficacy.
Marcos Tobias-Machado, Gustavo Cabanillas, Idvaldo Salazar, Nilo Jorge Leão, Francisco Sergio Moura, Lorena Barboza, Ricardo Brianson Cadima   +6 more
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Are respiratory complications of Plasmodium vivax malaria an underestimated problem?

Malaria Journal, 2017
Background Respiratory complications are uncommon, but often life-threatening features of Plasmodium vivax malaria. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence and lethality associated with such complications among P. vivax malaria patients in a tertiary
Fernando Val, Sara Avalos, André Alexandre Gomes, José Evelio Albornoz Zerpa, Gustavo Fontecha, André Machado Siqueira, Quique Bassat, Maria Graças Costa Alecrim, Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro, Marcus Vinícius Guimarães Lacerda   +9 more
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Impact of CYP2D6, MAOA, and UGT2B7 genetic variants on recurrence of Plasmodium Vivax in the Brazilian Amazon

Scientific Reports
The biotransformation of primaquine is mediated by cytochrome P-450 (CYP) enzymes and monoamine oxygenase A (MAO-A). Polymorphisms in the genes that encode these enzymes can alter the clinical response of patients with Plasmodium vivax malaria, leading ...
Gabrielly S. da Silva, Flávia A. Fontenelle, Amanda O. Carvalho, Marielle M. Macêdo, Manuela C. Morais, Rebeca L. Abreu Netto, Victor I. Mwangi, Maria G. C. Alecrim, Marcus V. G. Lacerda, Fernanda Rodrigues-Soares, Anne C. G. de Almeida, Gisely Cardoso de Melo   +11 more
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Low handgrip strength is associated with worse functional outcomes in long COVID

Scientific Reports
The diagnosis of long COVID is troublesome, even when functional limitations are present. Dynapenia is the loss of muscle strength and power production that is not caused by neurologic or muscular diseases, being mostly associated with changes in ...
Camila Miriam Suemi Sato Barros do Amaral, Cássia da Luz Goulart, Bernardo Maia da Silva, Jefferson Valente, Anna Gabriela Rezende, Eduardo Fernandes, Nadia Cubas-Vega, Mayla Gabriela Silva Borba, Vanderson Sampaio, Wuelton Monteiro, Gisely Cardoso de Melo, Marcus Lacerda, Guilherme Peixoto Tinoco Arêas, Fernando Almeida-Val   +13 more
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Neurological Manifestation Associated with Chikungunya Infection in a Pediatric Patient from Itacoatiara, Brazilian Amazon: A Case Report

Viruses
A 9-year-old male with autism and a history of well-controlled epilepsy presented with acute headache, fever, and generalized tonic-clonic seizures. Initial diagnostics, including imaging and cerebrospinal fluid analysis, were inconclusive.
Samuel Benjamin Aguiar de Oliveira, Barbara Aparecida Chaves, Maurício Teixeira Lima, Alexandre Vilhena Silva-Neto, Jady Shayenne Mota Cordeiro, Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro, Michele de Souza Bastos, Vanderson de Souza Sampaio   +7 more
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mTOR and S6K1 drive polycystic kidney by the control of Afadin-dependent oriented cell division

Nature Communications, 2020
mTOR activation is known to generate polycystic kidneys, which show both increased proliferation and loss of oriented cell division (OCD). Here, Bonucci et al.
Martina Bonucci, Nicolas Kuperwasser, Serena Barbe, Vonda Koka, Delphine de Villeneuve, Chi Zhang, Nishit Srivastava, Xiaoying Jia, Matthew P. Stokes, Frank Bienaimé, Virginie Verkarre, Jean Baptiste Lopez, Fanny Jaulin, Marco Pontoglio, Fabiola Terzi, Benedicte Delaval, Matthieu Piel, Mario Pende   +17 more
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Clinical aspects of hemolysis in patients with P. vivax malaria treated with primaquine, in the Brazilian Amazon

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
This report describes the development of hemolysis in eighteen glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficient patients treated for Plasmodium vivax malaria with chloroquine and primaquine.
Wilson M Ramos Júnior, José FJ Sardinha, Mônica RF Costa, Marli S Santana, Maria GC Alecrim, Marcus VG Lacerda   +5 more
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Sudden spleen rupture in a Plasmodium vivax-infected patient undergoing malaria treatment

Malaria Journal, 2018
Background Splenomegaly is one of the most common features of malaria. However, spontaneous splenic rupture, although unusual, represents a severe complication often leading to death.
Aleix Elizalde-Torrent, Fernando Val, Ingrid Cardoso C. Azevedo, Wuelton M. Monteiro, Luiz C. L. Ferreira, Carmen Fernández-Becerra, Hernando A. del Portillo, Marcus V. G. Lacerda   +7 more
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Entre a literatura, a história e a memória: entrevista com Ignácio de Loyola Brandão

ArtCultura, 2011
Entrevistadora: Vera Lúcia Silva Vieira Apresentação: Marcia Regina Capelari Naxara e Vera Lúcia Silva ...
Vera Lúcia Silva Vieira, Márcia Regina Capelari Naxara   +1 more
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