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GHTM Sessions 2022 CCID06 » Serological survey of SARS Cov2 in Cascais

  • From: 06/04/2022
  • To: 06/04/2022
  • Location: ZOOM | 11h00

In May 2020, the Cascais City Council established a partnership with GHTM to conduct a community-level seroprevalence survey, which included blood serology testing for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies together with socio-demographic and clinical questions. The study’s 1st phase was between May and September 2020 and had 12,032 respondents – 5.62% of Cascais population. The reactive tests’ %s were, respectively: 1.3 overall, 1.16 females and 1.56 males; having the 20-39 age group the highest prevalence (2%).
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GHTM Sessions 2021 VBD01 » Hybridisation and the emergence of Candida pathogens

  • From: 20/10/2021
  • To: 20/10/2021
  • Location: ZOOM | 11h00

Human fungal infections are a growing problem having the Candida genus among the main causes. This lecture is an overview of the comparative genomic analysis of Candida pathogens, focusing on hybrid lineages and their evolution, addressing i) how spread are hybrids among Candida species, ii) the processes that drive their genomes’ evolution, and iii) the role that hybridisation might have had in the emergence of C. albicans, the major Candida pathogen.
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