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Factors associated with chemsex in Portugal during the COVID-19 pandemic

  • Autores: Chone JS, Lima SVMA, Pimentel V, Fronteira I, Mendes IAC, Shaaban AN, Martins MDRO, Sousa AFL
  • Ano de Publicação: 2021
  • Journal: Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 29, e3474
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.1590/1518-8345.4975.3474

ABSTRACT ‘Objective:’ to investigate the factors associated with the practice of sex under the influence of drugs (chemsex) among Portuguese men who have sex with men during the period of social distancing to prevent the COVID-19. ‘Method:’ online survey applied in May 2020 to a sample of 1,301 participants living in Portugal, recruited according to […]
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Determinants of HIV-1 Late Presentation in Patients Followed in Europe

  • Autores: Miranda MNS, Pingarilho M, Pimentel V, Martins MDRO, Vandamme A-M, Bobkova M, Böhm M, Seguin-Devaux C, Paredes R, Rubio R, Zazzi M, Incardona F, Abecasis A.
  • Ano de Publicação: 2021
  • Journal: Pathogens, 10(7), art 835
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10070835

ABSTRACT To control the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) set the 90-90-90 target to be reached by 2020. One major threat to those goals is late presentation, which is defined as an individual presenting a TCD4+ count lower than 350 cells/mm3 or an AIDS-defining event. The present study aims to […]
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Geographic dispersal and genetic diversity of tick-borne phleboviruses (Phenuiviridae, Phlebovirus) as revealed by the analysis of L segment sequences

  • Autores: Pimentel V, Afonso R, Nunes M, Vieira ML, Bravo-Barriga D, Frontera E, Martinez M, Pereira A, Maia C, Paiva-Cardoso MDN, Freitas FB, Abecasis AB, Parreira R
  • Ano de Publicação: 2019
  • Journal: Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases
  • Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31078467

The large diversity of new tick-borne phleboviruses, and the negative impacts of the virulent viruses on human/animal health have led to a growing interest in their analysis. In this report, new insights are brought out into the diversity of putative phleboviruses circulating in Portugal (both the continental territory and the islands of São Miguel, in […]
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