Evaluation of a quality improvement intervention for labour and birth care in Brazilian private hospitals: a protocol

Authors: Ayres BVS, Belizán JM, Domingues RMSM, Figueiró AC, Gomes ML, Hartz Z, Leal MC, Nakano AR, Oliveira EFV, Pereira APE, Pereira MN, Sandall J, Torres JA
Publication Year: 2018
Journal: Reproductive Health
Link: https://reproductive-health-journal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12978-018-0636-y

Background In Brazilian private hospitals, caesarean section (CS) is almost universal (88%) and is integrated into the model of birth care. A quality improvement intervention, “Adequate Birth” (PPA), based on four driving components (governance, participation of women and families, reorganisation of care, and monitoring), has been implemented to help 23 hospitals reduce their CS rate. […]
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Trypanosoma cruzi IV causing outbreaks of acute Chagas disease and infections by different haplotypes in the Western Brazilian Amazonia

Authors: Barbosa Md, Borges L, de Sá AR, Gomes ML, Guerra JA, Magalhaes LK, Monteiro WM, Pires I, Silveira H, Toledo MJ
Journal: PLoS One
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Trypanosoma+cruzi+IV+Causing+Outbreaks+of+Acute+Chagas+Disease+and+Infections+by+Different+Haplotypes+in+the+Western+Brazilian+Amazonia.

Chagas disease is an emergent tropical disease in the Brazilian Amazon Region, with an increasing number of cases in recent decades. In this region, the sylvatic cycle of Trypanosoma cruzi transmission, which constitutes a reservoir of parasites that might be associated with specific molecular, epidemiological and clinical traits, has been little explored.
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Trypanosoma cruzi I and IV Stocks from Brazilian Amazon Are Divergent in Terms of Biological and Medical Properties in Mice

Authors: Bahia MT, de Araújo SM, de Oliveira Guerra JA, dos Reis D, Gomes ML, Gruendling AP, Magalhaes LK, Margioto Teston AP, Monteiro WM, Silveira H, Toledo MJ, Vale Barbosa Md
Publication Year: 2013
Journal: Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases
Link: http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0002069

In the Brazilian Amazon, clinical and epidemiological frameworks of Chagas disease are very dissimilar in relation to the endemic classical areas of transmission, possibly due to genetic and biological characteristics of the circulating Trypanosoma cruzi stocks. Twenty six T. cruzi stocks from Western Amazon Region attributed to the TcI and TcIV DTUs were comparatively studied in Swiss mice to test the hypothesis that T. cruzi clonal structure has a major impact on its biological and medical properties.
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Evaluation of a quality improvement intervention for labour and birth care in Brazilian private hospitals: a protocol

Trypanosoma cruzi IV causing outbreaks of acute Chagas disease and infections by different haplotypes in the Western Brazilian Amazonia

Trypanosoma cruzi I and IV Stocks from Brazilian Amazon Are Divergent in Terms of Biological and Medical Properties in Mice

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