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Home / Archives for Gonçalves L

Drug resistance profile and clonality of Plasmodium falciparum parasites in Cape Verde: the 2017 malaria outbreak

  • Authors: Da Veiga Leal S, Ward D, Campino S, Benavente E, Ibrahim A, Claret T, Isaías V, Monteiro D, Clark TG, Gonçalves L, Valdez T, da Luz Lima Mendonça M, Silveira H, Nogueira F
  • Publication Year: 2021
  • Journal: Malaria Journal 20 172
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03708-z

Background Cape Verde is an archipelago located off the West African coast and is in a pre-elimination phase of malaria control. Since 2010, fewer than 20 Plasmodium falciparum malaria cases have been reported annually, except in 2017, when an outbreak in Praia before the rainy season led to 423 autochthonous cases. It is important to understand the […]
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Nothing is Normal in this Pandemic

  • Authors: Gonçalves L, Amaral Turkman MA, Geraldes C, Marques TA, Sousa L
  • Publication Year: 2021
  • Journal: Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health 2210-6014
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.2991/jegh.k.210108.001%20

This manuscript brings attention to inaccurate epidemiological concepts that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. In social media and scientific journals, some wrong references were given to a “normal epidemic curve” and also to a “log-normal curve/distribution”. For many years, textbooks and courses of reputable institutions and scientific journals have disseminated misleading concepts. For example, calling […]
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Rotavirus A infection in children under five years old with a double health problem: undernutrition and diarrhoea – a cross-sectional study in four provinces of Mozambique

  • Authors: Chissaque A, Cassocera M, Gasparinho C, et al., Gonçalves L, de Deus N
  • Publication Year: 2021
  • Journal: BMC Infect Dis 21 18
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-05718-9

Background Mozambique has a high burden of group A rotavirus (RVA) infection and chronic undernutrition. This study aimed to determine the frequency and potential risk factors for RVA infection in undernourished children under 5 years old with diarrhoea in Mozambique. Methods The analysis was conducted using data from March 2015 to December 2017, regarding children […]
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Intestinal protozoa in hospitalized under-five children with diarrhoea in Nampula – a cross-sectional analysis in a low-income setting in northern Mozambique

  • Authors: Bauhofer AFL, Cossa-Moiane ILC, Marques SDA, et al., Gonçalves L, de Deus N
  • Publication Year: 2021
  • Journal: BMC Infect Dis 21 201
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-05881-7

Background In Mozambique, infection by intestinal parasites is reported all over the country. However, infection in children with diarrhoea is mostly focused in the southern region of Mozambique. This work aims to determine the frequency and potential risk factors for infection by Cryptosporidium spp., Giardia lamblia, and Entamoeba histolytica in children under-five years hospitalized with diarrhoea in Hospital Central de Nampula, northern […]
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Judicialization of the right to health: (Un)compliance of the judicial decisions in Medellin, Colombia

  • Authors: Gómez-Ceballos D, Craveiro I, Gonçalves L
  • Publication Year: 2019
  • Journal: International Journal of Health Planning and Management
  • Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30994221

INTRODUCTION: The judicialization of health arose following the possibility of judicially demanding the right to health before national and international courts. In the case of Colombia, health litigation is done through a constitutional tool called the tutela action, which allows for the immediate protection of fundamental rights. METHODS: A retrospective cross-sectional study using a probabilistic […]
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