Vol. 66 (2024)

Published: 2024-01-23

Original Article

Post-discharge all-cause mortality in COVID-19 recovered patients hospitalized in 2020: the impact of chronic kidney disease

Guilherme Schittine Bezerra Lomba, Pedro Henrique Abreu da Silva, Natalia Fonseca do Rosário, Thalia Medeiros, Lilian Santos Alves, Andrea Alice Silva, Jorge Reis Almeida, Jocemir Ronaldo Lugon

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Prevalence and antimicrobial resistance profile of pathogens isolated from patients with urine tract infections admitted to a university hospital in a medium-sized Brazilian city

Mariana Negri, Bárbara Martins Lima, Renata dos Santos Batista Reis Woloszynek, Roberto Augusto Silva Molina, Carla Maria Ramos Germano, Débora Gusmão Melo, Leandro Cândido de Souza, Lucimar Retto da Silva de Avó

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The decline of measles antibody titers in previously vaccinated adults: a cross-sectional analysis

Anna Carla Pinto Castiñeiras, Amanda Caroline Sales, Camila de Melo Picone, Constância Lima Diogo, Átila Duque Rossi, Rafael Mello Galliez, Orlando da Costa Ferreira Junior, Terezinha Marta Pereira Pinto Castiñeiras, Marta Heloísa Lopes, Ana Marli Christovam Sartori

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In vitro susceptibility to fosfomycin in clinical and environmental extended-spectrum beta-lactamase producing and/or ciprofloxacin-non-susceptible Escherichia coli isolates

Victoria Stadler Tasca Ribeiro, Larissa Bail, Carmen Antonia Sanches Ito, Ana Paula de Andrade, Lavinia Nery Villa Stangler Arend, Paula Hansen Suss, Keite da Silva Nogueira, Haniel Siqueira Mortagua Walflor, Helisson Faoro, Lia Carolina Soares de Medeiros Kuczera, Fernando José Vicenzi, Felipe Francisco Tuon

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Incomplete recovery of the CD4+/CD8+ ratio is associated with the late introduction of antiretroviral therapy among people living with HIV infection

Gabriela da Silva Prates, Mariana Amelia Monteiro, Éricka Constantinov Oliveira, Najara Ataide de Lima Nascimento, Ana Paula Rocha Veiga, Mauricio Domingues Ferreira, Thales José Bueno Polis, Gabriela Prandi Caetano, Beatriz Rodrigues Pellegrina Soares, Marcello Mihailenko Chaves Magri, Luisa Oliveira Pereira, Luiz Augusto Marcondes Fonseca, Wagner Silva Alves, Alberto José da Silva Duarte, Jorge Simão do Rosário Casseb

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The influence of growth time on the identification of Bartonella henselae strains by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry

Karina de Almeida Lins, Cristiane Santos Cruz Piveta, Carlos Emilio Levy, Marina Rovani Drummond, Luciene Silva dos Santos, Alessandra Sussulini, Paulo Eduardo Neves Ferreira Velho

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Prevalence and clinical consequences of Hepatitis C virus infection in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Ana Claudia Marques Barbosa Diaz, Steven Sol Witkin, Cesar de Almeida Neto, Vanderson Rocha, Silvia Figueiredo Costa, Jessica Fernandes Ramos, Maria Cassia Mendes-Correa

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A spatial case-control study on symptomatic and inapparent primary dengue infections in an endemic city in Brazil

Gerusa Figueiredo, Francisco Chiaravalloti, Sérgio Campos, Alessandra Cristina Guedes Pellini, Alvina Clara Felix, Expedito Luna

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Associated factors, incidence, and management of gestational and congenital syphilis in a Brazilian state capital: a cross-sectional study

Cássia de Paula Pires, Lisany Krug Mareto, Márcio José de Medeiros, Everton Falcão de Oliveira

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Epidemiological and molecular surveillance of norovirus in the Brazilian Amazon: description of recombinant genotypes and improvement of evolutionary analysis

Jonaia Novaes da Costa, Jones Anderson Monteiro Siqueira, Dielle Monteiro Teixeira, Patrícia dos Santos Lobo, Sylvia de Fátima dos Santos Guerra, Isadora Monteiro Souza, Bruna Trindade Moreira Cardoso, Luana Silva Soares Farias, Hugo Reis Resque, Yvone Benchimol Gabbay, Luciana Damascena da Silva

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Survival and mortality profile among people living with HIV in a cohort in the Northeastern region of Brazil

Kaliene Maria Estevão Leite, Kledoaldo Oliveira Lima, Ricardo Arraes de Alencar Ximenes, Maria de Fatima Militão de Albuquerque, Demócrito de Barros Miranda-Filho, Emmanuelle Tenório Albuquerque Madruga Godoi, Ulisses Ramos Montarroyos, Heloísa Ramos Lacerda

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Immunogenicity of COVID-19 adsorbed inactivated vaccine (CoronaVac) and additional doses of mRNA BNT162b2 vaccine in immunocompromised adults compared with immunocompetent persons

Karim Yaqub Ibrahim, Raquel Megale Moreira, Carolina Ferreira dos Santos, Tânia Mara Varejão Strabelli, Juliana de Cássia Belizário, Maria Isabel de Moraes Pinto, Ana Karolina Barreto Berselli Marinho, Juliana Marquezi Pereira, Liliane Saraiva de Mello, Mauricio Cesar Ando, Vitor Gabriel Lopes da Silva, Paula Keiko Sato, Marcos Alves de Lima, João Italo Dias França, Ana Paula Loch, Karina Takesaki Miyaji, Vanessa Infante, Alexander Roberto Precioso, Ana Marli Christovam Sartori

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Malaria in a vulnerable population living in quilombo remnant communities in the Brazilian Amazon: a cross-sectional study from 2005-2020

Beatriz Costa Ribeiro, Carla Gisele R Garcia, Lilian Jéssica Passos Lima, João F. Guerreiro, Marinete Marins Póvoa, Maristela G. Cunha

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The association of fibrinogen–albumin ratio and neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio with the severity of respiratory syncytial virus infection in children

Zeynep Uze Okay, Berker Okay, Halil Ugur Hatipoglu, Gulsen Akkoc, Kamil Sahin

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Dynamic evaluation of liver fibrosis to assess hepatocellular carcinoma risk in patients with chronic hepatitis B receiving nucleoside analogs treatment

Jia Luo, Ming Yuan, Shan Li, Lijuan Chen, Mingsha Zhou, Hailan Li, Xiuyuan Bai, Zhiyu Zhang, Weiqi Zeng, Xueyi Sun, Qiongfang Zhang, Yi Chen, Li Zhou

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Accuracy of the Verbal Autopsy questionnaire in the diagnosis of COVID-19 deaths in a Brazilian capital

Marcos Adriano Garcia Campos, Ézio Arthur Monteiro Cutrim, Érico Murilo Monteiro Cutrim, João Victor Pimentel de Oliveira, Eduardo José Silva Gomes de Oliveira, Daniel de Brito Pontes, José Albuquerque de Figueiredo Neto, Gyl Eanes Barros Silva

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Genetic diversity in the partial sequence of the HIV-1 gag gene among people living with multidrug-resistant HIV-1 infection

Cecília Salete Alencar, Ester Cerdeira Sabino, Ricardo Sobhie Diaz, Alfredo Mendrone-Junior, Anna Shoko Nishiya

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Human papillomavirus in women infected with human immunodeficiency virus: association with viral load and lymphocyte count

Ana Cléa Cutrim Diniz de Morais, Alice de Sá Ferreira, Carla Déa Trindade Barbosa, Maria Fernanda Bezerra Lima, Karina Donato Fook, Mônika Machado de Carvalho, Alessandra Costa de Sales Muniz, Deborah Rocha de Araújo, Pablo de Matos Monteiro, Maria José Abigail Mendes Araújo, Sally Cristina Moutinho Monteiro, Fernanda Ferreira Lopes

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Impact of COVID-19 on tuberculosis notifications

Talita Antunes Antoniolli Pontes, Fernando Fernandez-Llimos, Astrid Wiens

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Unraveling clinical outcomes of long-term cART treatment in HIV-1 patients with or without the Brazilian GWGR motif in the V3 loop

Victor Ângelo Folgosi, Shirley Vasconcelos Komninakis, Luciano Lopes, Mariana Amélia Monteiro, Tatiane Assone, Luiz Augusto Marcondes Fonseca, Wilson Domingues, Pedro Domingos Leite Junior, Jefferson Russo Victor, Jorge Casseb

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Clinical and immunological features of laryngeal cryptococcosis

Vítor Falcão de Oliveira, Mariane Taborda, Mateus Bach Santa Catarina, Wdson Luis Lima Kruschewsky, Marjorie Marini Rapozo, Thais Queiroz da Rocha, Carla Pagliari, Adriana Satie Gonçalves Kono Magri, Marcello Mihailenko Chaves Magri, Miriam Nacagami Soto

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Antibacterial activity of Nocardia spp. and Streptomyces sp. on multidrug-resistant pathogens causing neonatal sepsis

Janette Berenice González-Nava, Gauddy Lizeth Manzanares-Leal, Luis Ángel Zapi-Colín, Sonia Dávila-Ramos, Horacio Sandoval-Trujillo, Ninfa Ramírez-Durán

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Evaluation of different cut-off points for IgG avidity and IgM in the diagnosis of acute toxoplasmosis in pregnant women participating in a congenital toxoplasmosis screening program

Michelle Costa Laguardia, Ericka Viana Machado Carellos, Glaucia Manzan Queiroz Andrade, Mariângela Carneiro, José Nélio Januário, Ricardo Wagner de Almeida Vitor

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Stenotrophomonas maltophilia outbreak in a university hospital: epidemiological investigation and literature review of an emerging healthcare-associated infection

Mehmet Erinmez, Feyza Nur Aşkın, Yasemin Zer

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Anemia and intestinal parasites in Mbya Guarani children, Misiones, Argentina

Enrique-Jorge Deschutter, Rut-Karina Marczuk, Nestor-Guillermo Blanco, José-Manuel Ramos-Rincón

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Intermediate and definitive hosts of wild Schistosoma mansoni: ecological niche modeling of hosts in low endemicity areas

Elisiane Rodrigues dos Santos, Juberlan Silva Garcia

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Prediction of promiscuous multiepitope-based peptide vaccine against RdRp of rotavirus using immunoinformatics studies

Ahmed M. Abdulfattah, Hailah M. Almohaimeed, Fayez Alsulaimani, Aisha Alshammary, Mohammad Osama Almohaini, Khowlah Abdulrahman Almehiny, Almonther Abdullah Hershan, Abdullah Saleh Alkhamiss, Ruqaih S. Alghsham, Hanaa Ghabban, Mona H. Soliman, Jamal A. Alorabi, Waleed Al Abdulmonem

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Entomo-virological surveillance of Flavivirus in mosquitoes in Yucatan State, Mexico

Diana Guadalupe Argaez-Sierra, Carlos Marcial Baak-Baak, Julian E. Garcia-Rejon, Rosa Carmina Cetina-Trejo, Julio C. Tzuc-Dzul, Karla Y. Acosta-Viana, José I. Chan-Perez, Nohemi Cigarroa-Toledo

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Evaluation of d-dimer as outcome biomarker in COVID-19 acute respiratory distress patients

Simone Magalhães Diniz, Vitor Augusto Queiroz Mauad, Caio Cesar Ferreira Fernandes, Marcelo Rodrigues Bacci

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Review

Multiple myeloma and Chagas disease: qPCR as a marker for preemptive antiparasitic therapy: a case reports series and review

Noemia Barbosa Carvalho, Vera Lúcia Teixeira de Freitas, Fernanda Salles Seguro, Rita Cristina Bezerra, Giancarlo Fatobene, Érika Yoshie Shimoda Nakanishi, Helena Visnadi, Gracia Martinez, Marjorie Vieira Batista, Vanderson Rocha, Frederico Luis Dulley, Sílvia Figueiredo Costa, Maria Aparecida Shikanai-Yasuda

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Interventions to prevent mother-to-child transmission in breastfeeding mothers with HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Fangping Xu, Ying Xiong, Min Gu, Lingling Wan, Yun Wang

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Novel approaches for HTLV-1 therapy: innovative applications of CRISPR-Cas9

Wilson Domingues, Victor Ângelo Folgosi, Sabri Saeed Sanabani, Pedro Domingos Leite Junior, Tatiane Assone, Jorge Casseb

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Haff disease: overview and clinical features

Gabriel Rotsen Fortes Aguiar, Roberto Cesar de Moura Silva, Karla Cristina Silva Petruccelli, Michael Nascimento Oliveira, Gabriel Antônio Uchôa de Brito, Polianna Lemos Moura Moreira Albuquerque, Elizabeth De Francesco Daher, Geraldo Bezerra da Silva Junior

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Urinary tract infections and risk of preterm birth: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Erping Wang, Peng Tang, Chen Chen

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Case Report

Severe esophagitis induced by antituberculosis drugs: a case report

Roxana Flores Mamani, Franciele Moreira Silva, Juliana Paitach de Oliveira Lima, Vitor Montez Vianna, Marcos Vidal de Lima-Júnior, Rivelino Trindade de Azevedo, Billy McBenedict, Ezequias Batista Martins

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Secondary oral syphilis presenting as a tumor-like lesion on the lower lip

Norberto Sugaya, Dante Migliari

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Calcified cerebral toxoplasmosis associated with recurrent perilesional edema causing neurological manifestations in an HIV-infected individual: case report with a decade-long follow-up

Flávia Carolina Soares Bonato, René Leandro Magalhães Rivero, Hector Hugo Garcia, José Ernesto Vidal

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Neurological manifestation of Brazilian spotted fever in childhood

Bruna Fernanda Deicke Mendes, Marina Melo Moreira, Ana Luisa Lodi Jimenez, Lívia Barbosa da Silva, Laura Maria Silva Thiersch, Carolina Malaquias Rodrigues, Bruna Ribeiro Torres, Juliana Goulart Dias da Costa, Lilian Martins Oliveira Diniz

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Myelotoxicity and kidney dysfunction related to the use of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole for the treatment of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia: a case report of severe adverse events with a common drug

Isabel Cristina Melo Mendes, Roxana Flores Mamani, David Richer Araujo Coelho, Clarisse Pimentel

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First occurrence of feline sporotrichosis in a metropolitan area of Central-West Brazil

Mariana Almeida Ferreira, Allana de Paula Castilho, Gabrielle Silveira Vargas, Bruna Elisa Patini, André Luís Elias Moreira, Jandra Pacheco dos Santos, Roseli Santos de Freitas Xavier, Gilda Maria Barbaro Del Negro, Carlos Pelleschi Taborda, Isabella Dib Gremião, Álvaro Ferreira Júnior

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SARS-CoV-2 shedding, infectivity, and evolution in an immunocompromised adult patient

Maria Cassia Mendes-Correa, Fábio de Rose Ghilardi, Matias Chiarastelli Salomão, Lucy Santos Villas-Boas, Anderson Vicente de Paula, Heuder Gustavo Oliveira Paiao, Antonio Charlys da Costa, Tânia Regina Tozetto-Mendoza, Wilton Freire, Flavia Cristina Silva Sales, Ingra Morales Claro, Ester Cerdeira Sabino, Nuno Rodrigues Faria, Steven Sol Witkin

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Challenging diagnosis of Plasmodium ovale malaria in a Colombian traveler: the importance of including P. ovale wallikeri in molecular screening

Carlos Nieto-Clavijo, Liliana Morales, Angela Patricia Guerra Vega, Liliana Jazmín Cortés Cortés, Jacqueline Chaparro-Olaya

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Tinea corporis intrafamilial infection in pets due to Microsporum canis

Karla Yaeko Sierra-Maeda, Fernando Martínez-Hernández, Roberto Arenas, Leticia Boeta-Ángeles, Luary Carolina Martínez-Chavarría, Sonia Fabiola Rodríguez-Colín, Juan Xicohtencatl-Cortes, Rigoberto Hernández-Castro

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Can habits and behaviors predict colonization by community-associated MRSA in patients admitted to a Brazilian hospital?

Marcos Vinicius de Barros Pinheiro, Fernanda Sampaio Cavalcante, Dennis de Carvalho Ferreira, Ana Carolina Fonseca Guimarães, Adriana Lúcia Pires Ferreira, Claudia Regina da Costa, Kátia Regina Netto dos Santos, Simone Aranha Nouér

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Misleading subcutaneous mycosis: a case report of subsequent clinical mycetoma-like and histological chromoblastomycosis-like lesions

João Paulo Turri Brufatto, Laís Pontes, Angélica Zaninelli Schreiber, Maria Leticia Cintra, Cintia Avila Souza, Luciana Vilela Gomide, Helena Maciel Mendonça Tolentino Guerra, Rafael Fantelli Stelini, Isabela Vilela Brum, Andrea Fernandes Eloy da Costa França, Renata Ferreira Magalhães, Paulo Eduardo Neves Ferreira Velho

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Histoplasmosis in a fingolimod-treated patient: case report and scoping review

Vítor Falcão de Oliveira, Guilherme Diogo da Silva, Larissa Teixeira Silva, Victor Lucas Gonçalves, Paula Emilia Rivas, Alexandre Coelho Marques, Mariane Taborda, Adriana Satie Gonçalves Kono Magri, Samira Luisa Apóstolos-Pereira, Dagoberto Callegaro, Marcello Mihailenko Chaves Magri

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Rhinocerebral mucormycosis and Trichosporon asahii fungemia in a pediatric patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a rare coinfection

Liuyang Hu, Guiliang Liu, Xingchun Chen

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Fatal viscerotropic and neurotropic disease after yellow fever vaccine: a rare manifestation leading to diagnosis of severe combined immunodeficiency in an infant

Lara Jhullian Tolentino Vieira, Gabriela Assunção Goebel, Yuri Barcelos, Luciana Oliveira Cunha, Luisa Teles Melo Santos, Roberta Maia de Castro Romanelli, Fernanda Gontijo Minafra, Andrea Lucchesi de Carvalho, Luiz Fernando Andrade de Carvalho, Lilian Martins Oliveira Diniz

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Brief Communication

Identification of SARS-CoV-2 in urban rodents from Southern Mexico City at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic

Fernando Martínez-Hernández, Nelly Raquel Gonzalez-Arenas, José Antonio Ocampo Cervantes, Guiehdani Villalobos, Angelica Olivo-Diaz, Emilio Rendon-Franco, Mirza Romero Valdovinos, Claudia Irais Muñoz-Garcia

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Viable Leishmania parasites in the absence of an in vitro IFN-γ response in asymptomatic carriers

Elsy Nalleli Loría-Cervera, Erika Ivett Sosa-Bibiano, Karina Beatriz López-Ávila, Ana Celia Montes de Oca-Aguilar, Marisol Sarahí Moreno-Nava, Jimmy Raymundo Torres-Castro

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Demographic and clinical characteristics of people diagnosed with active sexually transmitted infections among monkeypox cases in Brazil: the 2022 outbreak

Isabella Nepomuceno de Souza, Ana Roberta Pati Pascom, Matheus Funke Spinelli, Guilherme Borges Dias, Draurio Barreira, Angélica Espinosa Miranda

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Chronotropic incompetence is associated with reduced aerobic conditioning and sedentary behavior in patients with post-acute COVID-19 syndrome

Milena dos Santos Barros Campos, Gabriela Menezes Gonçalves de Brito, Karinne Simões da Cruz Santos, Marcos Antonio Almeida Santos, Paulo Ricardo Martins-Filho, Antônio Carlos Sobral Sousa

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Hepatic endotheliitis in Golden Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) experimentally infected with SARS-CoV-2

Alex Junior Souza de Souza, Antônio Francisco de Souza Filho, Cristina Kraemer Zimpel, Marina Caçador Ayupe, Marcelo Valdemir de Araújo, Rafael Rahal Guaragna Machado, Erika Salles, Caio Loureiro Salgado, Mariana Silva Tavares, Taiana Tainá Silva-Pereira, Paula Carolina de Souza, Edison Luiz Durigon, Marcos Bryan Heinemann, Paulo Eduardo Brandão, Denise Morais da Fonseca, Ana Marcia de Sá Guimarães, Lilian Rose Marques de Sá

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Unveiling microbial worlds: exploring viral metagenomics among waste pickers at Latin America’s largest dumpsite

Vanessa Resende Nogueira Cruvinel, Eneas de Carvalho, Daiani Cristina Cilião Alves, Carla Pintas Marques, Rafael dos Santos Bezerra, Marta Giovanetti, Sandra Coccuzzo Sampaio, Maria Carolina Elias, Wildo Navegantes de Araújo, Rodrigo Haddad, Svetoslav Nanev Slavov

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Streptococcus equi subspecies zooepidemicus: an emergent cause of meningoencephalitis in Northeastern Brazil

Luis Arthur Brasil Gadelha Farias, Marcos Maciel Sousa, Karene Ferreira Cavalcante, Marina Pinheiro Catunda Jucá, Aldenise de Olinda Castro, Liana Perdigão Mello, Rafael Ferreira Mesquita, Silviane Praciano Bandeira, Ana Paula Marchi, Tânia Mara Silva Coelho, Antônio Silva Lima Neto, Érico Antonio Gomes de Arruda, Silvia Figueiredo Costa, Maura Salaroli de Oliveira, Lauro Vieira Perdigão Neto

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Erratum

Evaluation of larval surface antigens from infective larvae of Strongyloides venezuelensis for the serodiagnosis of human strongyloidiasis

Bruna Barroso Gomes, William Henry Roldan Gonzales, Dirce Mary Correa Meisel, Ronaldo Cesar Borges Gryschek, Fabiana Martins de Paula

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Can COVID-19 impact the natural history of paracoccidioidomycosis? Insights from an atypical chronic form of the mycosis

César Augusto Tomaz de Souza, Cesar Cilento Ponce, Gisele Burlamaqui Klautau, André Nathan Costa, Wladimir Queiroz, Rosely Antunes Patzina, Gil Benard, José Angelo Lauletta Lindoso

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