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 2022 CCI Diagnostics » 1st Semester Calendar
GHTM Sessions 2022 CCI Diagnostics » Year Calendar » Sharing GHTM’s Cross Cutting Issues Diagnostics’ activities, knowledge and methodologies in this area.
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GHTM Sessions 2021 PPS01 » Cohort profile: the Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition in Acre, Brazil, birth cohort study (MINA-Brazil)
Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition in Acre, Brazil (MINA-Brazil) is a longitudinal, prospective population-based birth cohort, set-up to understand the effects of early environmental exposures and maternal lifestyle choices on growth and development of the Amazonian children.
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GHTM Sessions 2021 VBD01 » Hybridisation and the emergence of Candida pathogens
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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