Moreau, Vitor Hugo
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Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology]
COVID-19 has killed more than 500,000 people worldwide and more than 60,000 in Brazil. Since there are no specific drugs or vaccines, the available tools against COVID-19 are preventive, such as the use of personal protective equipment, social distancing, lockdowns, and mass testing. Such measures are hindered in Brazil due to a restrict budget, lo...
Castro, Italo Araujo Costa, Lusmaia Damaceno Camargo Oliveira, Anniely Carvalho Rebouças Souza, Menira das Dôres de Paula Cardoso, Divina Camargos, Paulo Augusto Moreira Costa, Paulo Sergio Sucasas Fiaccadori, Fabiola Souza
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Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
Acute respiratory infection (ARI) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Most of these infections are caused by viruses. Infections pose as important triggers of acute episodes of chronic respiratory diseases (CRD). This study sought to evaluate the frequency and circulation profile of respiratory viruses among ARI symptomatic patie...
Dorlass, Erick Gustavo Monteiro, Cairo Oliveira Viana, Amanda Oliveira Soares, Camila Pereira Machado, Rafael Rahal Guaragna Thomazelli, Luciano Matsumiya Araujo, Danielle Bastos Leal, Fabyano Bruno Candido, Erika Donizette Telezynski, Bruna Larotonda
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Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
In March 2020, WHO declared a pandemic state due to SARS-CoV-2 having spread. TaqMan-based real-time RT-qPCR is currently the gold standard for COVID-19 diagnosis. However, it is a high-cost assay, inaccessible for the majority of laboratories around the world, making it difficult to diagnose on a large scale. The objective of this study was to sta...
Santiago, Gabrielli Stefaninni Gonçalves, Daniela da Silva Coelho, Irene de Mattos de Oliveira Coelho, Shana Neto Ferreira, Helena
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Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
AmpC is a type of β-lactamase enzyme produced by bacteria; these enzymes are classified in Class C and Group 1, and these confer resistance to cephamycin. Enterobacterales producing AmpC are reported worldwide and have great clinical importance due to therapeutic restriction and epidemiological importance once the easy dissemination by plasmidic ge...
Fahrioglu, Umut Ergoren, Mahmut Cerkez Mocan, Gamze
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Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
Recent UNAIDS reports (December 2019) indicate that 37.9 million people have been affected by HIV infection around the globe in 2018, of which 1.7 million are cited as new infections. Human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) requires both the CD4 receptor, as the primary receptor, and a chemokine co-receptor to gain entry into the cell. In addition t...
da Rosa Monte Machado, Gabriella Diedrich, Denise Ruaro, Thaís Carine Zimmer, Aline Rigon Lettieri Teixeira, Mário de Oliveira, Luís Flávio Jean, Mickael Van de Weghe, Pierre de Andrade, Saulo Fernandes Baggio Gnoatto, Simone Cristina
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Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
Fungal infections have emerged as a current serious global public health problem. The main problem involving these infections is the expansion of multidrug resistance. Therefore, the prospection of new compounds with efficacy antifungal becomes necessary. Thus, this study evaluated the antifungal profile and toxicological parameters of quinolines d...
Osman, Marwan Al Bikai, Aisha Rafei, Rayane Mallat, Hassan Dabboussi, Fouad Hamze, Monzer
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Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
In the recent years, the epidemiology of invasive fungal infections (IFIs) has changed worldwide. This is remarkably noticed with the significant increase in high-risk populations. Although surveillance of such infections is essential, data in the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) region remain scarce. In this paper, we reviewed the existing ...
Lopes, Luciano Rodrigo de Mattos Cardillo, Giancarlo Paiva, Paulo Bandiera
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Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
An emergence of a novel coronavirus, causative agent of COVID19, named as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), occurred due to cross-species transmission. Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses able to infect a great number of hosts. Entrance of SARS-CoV-2 depends on the surface (S) protein interaction with host ACE2 p...
Spera, Caroline Giuseppa Lorenzetti, Elis Lavorente, Fernanda Louise Pereira de Calasans Marques, Gustavo Bisca, Jacqueline Muniz Teixeira, Carlos Roberto Alfieri, Amauri Alcindo Alfieri, Alice Fernandes
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Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
Canine parvovirus type 2 (CPV-2) is classified into three subtypes (CPV-2a, CPV-2b, and CPV-2c) and is the main cause of enteritis and myocarditis in young domestic and wild animals. This study aimed to evaluate the presence of CPV-2 in the feces of asymptomatic free-living coatis from Garden Forest Reserve, Palmital city, SP, Brazil. Fecal samples...
Ortega-Peña, Silvestre Aquino-Andrade, Alejandra Betanzos-Cabrera, Gabriel Sharma, Ashutosh Rodríguez-Martínez, Sandra Cancino-Diaz, Mario E. Cancino-Diaz, Juan Carlos
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Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
