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Amanda N B Fontes

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Kluyber D, Desbiez A, Attias N, Massocato G, Gennari S, Soares H, et al.
Transbound Emerg Dis . 2020 Sep; 68(3):1639-1651. PMID: 32964690
Armadillos are specialist diggers and their burrows are used to find food, seek shelter and protect their pups. These burrows can also be shared with dozens of vertebrate and invertebrate...
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Rosa P, DEspindula H, Melo A, Fontes A, Finardi A, Belone A, et al.
Clin Infect Dis . 2019 Jul; 70(10):2054-2061. PMID: 31260522
Background: Leprosy has been treated with multidrug therapy, which has been distributed for free across the globe and regarded as highly efficient. However, the impossibility of growing Mycobacterium leprae in...
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Lima L, Fontes A, Li W, Suffys P, Vissa V, Mota R, et al.
Lepr Rev . 2018 Sep; 87(4):486-500. PMID: 30226353
Background: This study compares the strains of genotypes of M. leprae from nasal secretions (NS) and skin biopsy (SB) in the same patient, supplementing conventional epidemiology to gain insight into...
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Fontes A, Lima L, Mota R, Almeida R, Pontes M, Goncalves H, et al.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis . 2017 Dec; 11(12):e0006117. PMID: 29244821
Leprosy is endemic in large part of Brazil with 28,761 new patients in 2015, the second largest number worldwide and reaches 9/10.000 in highly endemic regions and 2.7/10.000 in the...
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Dias A, Silva C, Santos J, Batista-Silva L, Acosta C, Fontes A, et al.
J Immunol . 2016 Jul; 197(5):1905-13. PMID: 27474073
The chronic course of lepromatous leprosy may be interrupted by acute inflammatory episodes known as erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL). Despite its being a major cause of peripheral nerve damage in...
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Oelemann M, Fontes A, Pereira M, Bravin Y, Silva G, Degrave W, et al.
Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz . 2007 Jul; 102(4):455-62. PMID: 17612765
Fingerprinting of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from tuberculosis (TB) patients attended in Community Health Centers (CHCs) of Rio de Janeiro was performed to verify possible risk factors for TB transmission. A...