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Estudo de aumento de casos de óbitos embrionários e fetais diagnosticados por ultrassonografia durante o surto de Zika vírus [PDF]
, 2020 The aim of the research was to describe the main causes of fetal death to improve the quality of care for pregnant women. The Zika virus is a virus of the Flavoviridae family, the Dengue and Chikungunya viruses also belong to this family and are ...
Leonardi Souza, Maria José +2 more
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The role of iron in normal and impaired testicular function
Andrology, EarlyView.Abstract Iron plays a critical role in testicular physiology, impacting spermatogenesis, testosterone production, and overall testicular function. Iron homeostasis is maintained through systemic and cellular regulatory mechanisms, including hepcidin‐mediated systemic iron control and the iron‐responsive element/iron regulatory protein (IRE/IRP) system ...
Aileen Harrer +2 more
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Projecting Month of Birth for At-Risk Infants after Zika Virus Disease Outbreaks
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016 The marked increase in infants born with microcephaly in Brazil after a 2015 outbreak of Zika virus (Zika virus) disease suggests an association between maternal Zika virus infection and congenital microcephaly.
Jennita Reefhuis +9 more
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Detailed Analyses of Zika Virus Tropism in
mBio, 2020 The role of Culex quinquefasciatus in Zika virus transmission has been debated since the epidemic of Zika occurred in the Americas in 2015 to 2016. The majority of studies have found no evidence that C.
Hannah J. MacLeod, George Dimopoulos
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Infection control in the brain and the eye
Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.Abstract The Central Nervous System (CNS), comprising the brain and the eye, is considered to have a ‘privileged’ mechanism for dealing with immunological challenge (immune privilege, IP). CNS IP has been revealed through experiments using foreign protein antigens and cell and tissue alloantigens (grafts), but evidence for a role for IP in modulating ...
John V. Forrester +2 more
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Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The incidence of Tick‐borne encephalitis (TBE) cases has increased. The presumed location of transmission of Tick‐borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) has been expanding increasingly in the western parts of Europe during the past decade. There has also been an increased incidence of surveillance‐reported TBE cases in southern Sweden and southern ...
H. H. Askling, D. Zavadska
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Risk of Zika virus transmission by blood donations in Brazil
Hematology, Transfusion and Cell Therapy, 2018 Background: Zika, a disease caused by Zika virus infections, has recently emerged and caused outbreaks in many parts of the world. The clinical manifestations of Zika are usually mild, mostly presenting as an exanthematic febrile disease, but on some ...
Mariana Munari Magnus +6 more
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Assessing Risk Thresholds in Controlled Human Infection Models (CHIM)
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Controlled Human Infection Models (CHIMs) are a type of clinical trial involving deliberately exposing human volunteers to an infectious agent. Compared to studies of natural infection, CHIMs offers distinctive benefits, from the ability to study presymptomatic infection to a direct assessment of the efficacy of vaccines and therapeutics in a ...
Alexa Nord‐Bronzyk +4 more
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Zika: what we do and do not know based on the experiences of Brazil [PDF]
Epidemiology and Health, 2016 OBJECTIVES: Zika virus, which was first discovered in 1947, has become a global threat to human health as it is rapidly spreading through Latin America, the Caribbean, the US and Asia, after causing a large outbreak in the Northeast region of Brazil in ...
Cristina Possas
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Conhecendo o Aedes Aegypti e Aedes Albopictus, os mosquitos dos varios virus [PDF]
, 2019 VII Seminário de Extensão Universitária da UNILA (SEUNI); VIII Encontro de Iniciação Científica e IV Encontro de Iniciação em Desenvolvimento Tecnológico e Inovação (EICTI 2019) e Seminário de Atividades Formativas da UNILA (SAFOR)As enfermidades ...
Prada, Yury Lizeth Cardozo +2 more
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