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Silva V, Teixeira R, do Livramento R, Lopes M, Leal-Calvo T, Filho J, et al.
Curr Issues Mol Biol . 2024 Jul; 46(7):6951-6959. PMID: 39057056
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory respiratory condition, characterized by variable airflow limitation, leading to clinical symptoms such as dyspnea and chest tightness. These symptoms result from an underlying inflammatory process....
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Mussi V, Simao T, Almeida F, Machado E, de Carvalho L, Calixto S, et al.
Front Microbiol . 2021 Sep; 12:718477. PMID: 34504483
Among non-tuberculous mycobacteria, is one of the most pathogenic, able to cause pulmonary disease indistinguishable from tuberculosis in immunocompetent susceptible adults. The lack of animal models that reproduce human-like lung...
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Avanzi C, Singh P, Truman R, Suffys P
Infect Genet Evol . 2020 Oct; 86:104581. PMID: 33022427
Molecular epidemiology investigations are notoriously challenging in the leprosy field mainly because the inherent characteristics of the disease as well as its yet uncultivated causative agents, Mycobacterium leprae and M....
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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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Machado E, Vasconcellos S, Cerdeira C, Gomes L, Junqueira R, Distasio de Carvalho L, et al.
Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz . 2018 Jun; 113(9):e180085. PMID: 29947722
Mycobacterium kansasii is an opportunistic pathogen and one of the most commonly encountered species in individuals with lung disease. We here report the complete genome sequence of 12 clinical isolates...
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Esteves L, Costa E, Vasconcellos S, Vargas A, Ferreira Junior S, Halon M, et al.
Tuberculosis (Edinb) . 2018 May; 110:36-43. PMID: 29779771
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health problem in the world and Brazil is among the countries with the highest incidence and prevalence rates, and Rio Grande do Sul, a...
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Benjak A, Avanzi C, Singh P, Loiseau C, Girma S, Busso P, et al.
Nat Commun . 2018 Jan; 9(1):352. PMID: 29367657
Leprosy is a chronic human disease caused by the yet-uncultured pathogen Mycobacterium leprae. Although readily curable with multidrug therapy (MDT), over 200,000 new cases are still reported annually. Here, we...
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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...