Joao Luis Reis-Cunha
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Reis-Cunha J, Jeffares D
BMC Genomics
. 2024 Oct;
25(1):1011.
PMID: 39472783
Background: Trypanosomatid parasites are a group of protozoans that cause devastating diseases that disproportionately affect developing countries. These protozoans have developed several mechanisms for adaptation to survive in the mammalian...
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Almeida L, Reis-Cunha J, Bartholomeu D
BMC Bioinformatics
. 2024 Jun;
25(1):207.
PMID: 38844845
Background: Gene families are groups of homologous genes that often have similar biological functions. These families are formed by gene duplication events throughout evolution, resulting in multiple copies of an...
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Goes W, Brasil C, Reis-Cunha J, Coqueiro-Dos-Santos A, Grazielle-Silva V, de Souza Reis J, et al.
Genomics
. 2023 Jun;
115(5):110661.
PMID: 37263313
We report the sequencing and assembly of the PH8 strain of Leishmania amazonensis one of the etiological agents of leishmaniasis. After combining data from long Pacbio reads, short Illumina reads...
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Lima D, Goncalves L, Reis-Cunha J, Guimaraes P, Ruiz J, Liarte D, et al.
Parasit Vectors
. 2023 May;
16(1):167.
PMID: 37217925
Background: Chagas disease (CD), caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, is a serious public health concern in Latin America. Nifurtimox and benznidazole (BZ), the only two drugs currently approved for...
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Kariithi H, Volkening J, Alves V, Reis-Cunha J, Arantes L, Fernando F, et al.
Microbiol Resour Announc
. 2023 May;
12(6):e0023523.
PMID: 37162354
Avian metapneumovirus (aMPV) causes a highly contagious upper respiratory and reproductive disease in chickens, turkeys, and ducks. Here, complete genome sequences of aMPV-B vaccine strains BR/1890/E1/19 (PL21, Nemovac; Boehringer Ingelheim...
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Black J, Reis-Cunha J, Cruz A, Tosi L
Front Cell Infect Microbiol
. 2023 Feb;
13:1102462.
PMID: 36779182
are kinetoplastid pathogens that cause leishmaniasis, a debilitating and potentially life-threatening infection if untreated. Unusually, regulate their gene expression largely post-transcriptionally due to the arrangement of their coding genes into...
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Reis-Cunha J, Coqueiro-Dos-Santos A, Pimenta-Carvalho S, Marques L, Rodrigues-Luiz G, Baptista R, et al.
mBio
. 2022 Oct;
13(6):e0231922.
PMID: 36264102
Repetitive elements cause assembly fragmentation in complex eukaryotic genomes, limiting the study of their variability. The genome of Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas disease, has a high repetitive...
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Santi A, Ribeiro J, Reis-Cunha J, Burle-Caldas G, Santos I, Silva P, et al.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis
. 2022 Oct;
16(10):e0010845.
PMID: 36260546
Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, is a serious chronic parasitic disease, currently treated with Nifurtimox (NFX) and Benznidazole (BZ). In addition to high toxicity, these drugs have...
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Grace C, Carvalho K, Lima M, Costa Silva V, Reis-Cunha J, Brune M, et al.
mBio
. 2022 Oct;
13(6):e0206822.
PMID: 36222512
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a potentially fatal disease caused mainly by Leishmania infantum in South America and Leishmania donovani in Asia and Africa. Disease outcomes have been associated with patient...
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Leao A, Viana L, de Araujo F, de Lourdes Almeida R, Freitas L, Coqueiro-Dos-Santos A, et al.
Microbes Infect
. 2022 Apr;
24(6-7):104982.
PMID: 35487471
Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas disease (CD), is a heterogeneous species with high genetic and phenotypic diversity. MASP is the second largest multigene family of T. cruzi. The...