HIV and tuberculosis co-infection among migrants in Europe: A systematic review on the prevalence, incidence and mortality

Authors: Abecasis AB, Couto I, Dias S, Fronteira I, Machado D, Tavares AM, Viveiros M
Publication Year: 2017
Journal: PLoS One
Link: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0185526#

International human migration has been rapidly growing. Migrants coming from low and middle income countries continue to be considerably vulnerable and at higher risk for infectious diseases, namely HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) and tuberculosis (TB). In Europe, the number of patients with HIV-TB co-infection has been increasing and migration could be one of the potential […]
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Epidemic dispersion of HIV and HCV in a population of co-infected Romanian injecting drug users

Authors: Abagiu A, Abecasis A, Banica L, Jipa R, Libin P, Neaga E, Nicolae I, Otelea D, Paraschiv S, Pineda-Peña AC, Pingarilho M, Theys K
Publication Year: 2017
Journal: PLoS One
Link: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0185866

Co-infections with HIV and HCV are very frequent among people who inject drugs (PWID). However, very few studies comparatively reconstructed the transmission patterns of both viruses in the same population. We have recruited 117 co-infected PWID during a recent HIV outbreak in Romania. Phylogenetic analyses were performed on HIV and HCV sequences in order to […]
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Is there any difference between the in situ and systemic IL-10 and IFN-ã production when clinical forms of cutaneous sporotrichosis are compared?

Authors: Conceição-Silva F, Lyra MR, Morgado FN, Pimentel MI, Schubach AO, Valete-Rosalino CM, Vasconcellos ÉCF
Publication Year: 2016
Journal: PLoS One
Link: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0162764

Authors: Capinha C, Gomes E, Rocha J, Sousa C
Publication Year: 2016
Journal: PLoS One
Link: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0164788

Malaria is currently one of the world´s major health problems. About a half-million deaths are recorded every year. In Portugal, malaria cases were significantly high until the end of the 1950s but the disease was considered eliminated in 1973. In the past few years, endemic malaria cases have been recorded in some European countries. With […]
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Curcumin generates oxidative stress and induces apoptosis in adult schistosoma mansoni worms

Authors: Afonso A, Belo S, Cunha WR, Curti C, De Aguiar DP, De Paula RG, Ferreira PM, Magalhães LG, Morais ER, Moscardini MBM, Ouchida AT, Rodrigues V
Publication Year: 2016
Journal: PLoS One
Link: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0167135

Inducing apoptosis is an interesting therapeutic approach to develop drugs that act against helminthic parasites. Researchers have investigated how curcumin (CUR), a biologically active compound extracted from rhizomes of Curcuma longa, affects Schistosoma mansoni and several cancer cell lines. This study evaluates how CUR influences the induction of apoptosis and oxidative stress in couples of […]
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HIV and tuberculosis co-infection among migrants in Europe: A systematic review on the prevalence, incidence and mortality

Epidemic dispersion of HIV and HCV in a population of co-infected Romanian injecting drug users

Is there any difference between the in situ and systemic IL-10 and IFN-ã production when clinical forms of cutaneous sporotrichosis are compared?

Mapping risk of malaria transmission in mainland Portugal using a mathematical modelling approach

Curcumin generates oxidative stress and induces apoptosis in adult schistosoma mansoni worms

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