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Wuhan large pig roundworm virus identified in human feces in Brazil

Luchs, Adriana; Leal, Elcio; Komninakis, Shirley Vasconcelos [UNIFESP]; Milagres, Flavio Augusto de Padua; Brustulin, Rafael; Teles, Maria da Aparecida Rodrigues; Gill, Danielle Elise; Deng, Xutao; Delwart, Eric; Sabino, Ester Cerdeira; Costa, Antonio Charlys da (Springer, 2018)

We report here the complete genome sequence of a bipartite virus, herein denoted WLPRV/human/BRA/TO-34/201, from a sample collected in 2015 from a two-year-old child in Brazil presenting acute gastroenteritis. The virus ...

Lower education among low-income Brazilian adolescent females is associated with planned pregnancies

Faisal-Cury, Alexandre; Tabb, Karen M.; Niciunovas, Guilherme [UNIFESP]; Cunningham, Carrie; Menezes, Paulo R.; Huang, Hsiang (Dove Medical Press Ltd, 2017)

Adolescent pregnancy has social, economic, and educational consequences and is also linked to adverse perinatal outcomes. However, studies show a positive relationship between pregnancy and increased social status among ...

Predictive validity analysis of six reference equations for the 6-minute walk test in healthy Brazilian men: a cross-sectional study

Negreiros, Alexandher; Padula, Rosimeire Simprini; Bretas Bernardes, Rosane Andrea; de Moraes, Monica Vasconcelos; Pires, Raquel Simoni; Chiavegato, Luciana Dias [UNIFESP] (Associacao Brasileira Pesquisa Pos-Graduacao Fisioterapia-Abrapg-Ft, 2017)

Background: The six-minute walk test (6MWT) is an important tool for evaluating functional capacity and exercise tolerance. The reference equations for the 6MWT in healthy subjects were established on the basis of American ...

Design and rationale for the WARFA trial: a randomized controlled cross-over trial testing the therapeutic equivalence of branded and generic warfarin in atrial fibrillation patients in Brazil

Freitas, Carolina Gomes [UNIFESP]; Walsh, Michael; Atallah, Alvaro Nagib [UNIFESP] (Biomed Central Ltd, 2017)

Background: Warfarin is a commonly used anticoagulant. Whether a given dose of the different formulations of Brazilian warfarin will result in the same effect on the international normalized ratio (INR) is uncertain. The ...

Health technology assessment: the process in Brazil

Abuleac, Fernanda Lessa [UNIFESP]; Ferraz, Marcos Bosi [UNIFESP] (Pan Amer Health Organization, 2017)

Objectives. To describe, analyze, and compare the opinions of decision makers involved in the health technology assessment (HTA) process in Brazil in 2011. Methods. A cross-sectional study was conducted using a structured ...

Prevalence and correlates of non-adherence to immunosuppressants and to health behaviours in patients after kidney transplantation in Brazil - the ADHERE BRAZIL multicentre study: a cross-sectional study protocol

Sanders-Pinheiro, Helady; Basile Colugnati, Fernando Antonio; Marsicano, Elisa Oliveira; De Geest, Sabina; Pestana Medina, Jose Osmar [UNIFESP] (Biomed Central Ltd, 2018)

Background: Non-adherence to immunosuppressive therapy is a prevalent risk factor for poor clinical and after kidney transplantation (KT), and has contributed to the lack of improvement in long-term graft survival over the ...