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Mariana A Hacker

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Manta F, Barbieri R, Moreira S, Santos P, Nery J, Duppre N, et al.
Sci Rep . 2019 Nov; 9(1):16675. PMID: 31723144
Household contacts (HHC) of leprosy patients exhibit high-risk of developing leprosy and contact tracing is helpful for early diagnosis. From 2011 to 2018,2,437 HHC were examined in a clinic in...
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Barbieri R, Manta F, Moreira S, Sales A, Nery J, Nascimento L, et al.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis . 2019 Mar; 13(3):e0007147. PMID: 30835722
Objective: The diagnosis of paucibacillary (PB) leprosy cases remains a challenge because of the absence of a confirmatory laboratory method. While quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) has been shown to...
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Menezes V, Nery J, Sales A, Miranda A, Galhardo M, Bastos F, et al.
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg . 2013 Dec; 108(2):63-70. PMID: 24361943
Background: Many articles have shown that HIV infection can modify the clinical course of leprosy, but very scant epidemiological and clinical data about this co-infection are available in the peer-reviewed...
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Silva D, Ponte C, Hacker M, Antas P
Acta Trop . 2013 Apr; 127(2):75-81. PMID: 23571106
In vitro stimulation of whole blood or isolated peripheral blood cells with specific antigens is used for several purposes. We sought to identify a reliable, reproducible, fast and feasible in...
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Hacker M, Sales A, Illarramendi X, Nery J, Duppre N, Bastos F, et al.
Rev Panam Salud Publica . 2012 Aug; 31(6):485-91. PMID: 22858815
Objective: To analyze a profile of patients treated at a national leprosy outpatient referral clinic in metropolitan Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over a period of more than two decades, and...
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Vital R, Illarramendi X, Nascimento O, Hacker M, Sarno E, Jardim M
Brain Behav . 2012 Jun; 2(3):249-55. PMID: 22741099
A need still exists to determine the clinical and neurophysiological characteristics of leprosy neuropathy at distinct times of the disease by different methods that measure the various nerve fiber functions....
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Sales A, de Leon A, Duppre N, Hacker M, Nery J, Sarno E, et al.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis . 2011 Mar; 5(3):e1013. PMID: 21423643
Background: This study aimed to evaluate the risk factors associated with developing leprosy among the contacts of newly-diagnosed leprosy patients. Methodology/principal Findings: A total of 6,158 contacts and 1,201 leprosy...
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Rocha A, Elias A, Sobral L, Soares D, Santos A, Marsico A, et al.
Tuberculosis (Edinb) . 2010 Nov; 91(1):14-21. PMID: 21106441
The contribution of Mycobacterium bovis to the global burden of tuberculosis (TB) in man is likely to be underestimated due to its dysgonic growth characteristics and because of the absence...
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Teixeira S, Bastos F, Hacker M, Morgado M
Infect Genet Evol . 2009 May; 9(4):638-42. PMID: 19460331
Host genetic factors play an important role in the HIV epidemic dynamics, and have been considered in studies assessing susceptibility/resistance to HIV-1 infection as well as clinical evolution. Class I...
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Hacker M, Leite I, Friedman S, Carrijo R, Bastos F
Health Place . 2008 Dec; 15(2):514-519. PMID: 19083260
The aim of this paper is to study how structural determinants and the role of injecting drug users (IDUs) as a bridging population to the general population affected the AIDS...