Short communication: detection and molecular characterization of hepatitis E virus in domestic animals of São Tomé and Príncipe

Authors: Mesquita JR, Istrate C, Santos-Ferreira NL, Ferreira AS, Abreu-Silva J, Veiga J, van der Poel WHM, Nascimento MSJ
Publication Year: 2019
Journal: Tropical Animal Health and Production
Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/30178438/

As in most of the African continent, the status of hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection in domestic animals in São Tomé and Príncipe, an archipelago off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa, is also completely unknown. In the present study, we investigated the presence of HEV among domestic animals in São Tomé and Príncipe. […]
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The need for planning training among public health officers in Cape Verde

Authors: Ferrinho P, da Luz Lima Mendonça M, Delgado AP
Publication Year: 2019
Journal: International Journal of Health Planning and Management
Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30211961

Cape Verde is a small island developing state (SIDS). The health sector is guided by strategic and programmatic documents of the Ministry of Health. The objective of this paper is to understand the planning capacity and experience of its Public Health Officers. A questionnaire was applied to 27 Cape Verdean public health officers in order […]
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Depressive symptoms at 13 years as predictors of depression in older adolescents: a prospective 4-year follow-up study in a nonclinical population

Authors: Bulhões C, Ramos E, Dias S, Barros H
Publication Year: 2019
Journal: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29974214

Depression is the most important source of disability in adolescents, partially due to its recurrence. There is a lack of studies on population-based samples investigating the continuity of depressive symptoms during adolescence. This study evaluates depressive symptoms at early adolescence as predictors of depressive symptoms later in adolescence. Urban adolescents born in 1990 and enrolled […]
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Clonal expansion across the seas as seen through CPLP-TB database: A joint effort in cataloguing Mycobacterium tuberculosis genetic diversity in Portuguese-speaking countries

Authors: Perdigão J, Silva C, Diniz J, Pereira C, Machado D, Ramos J, Silva H, Abilleira F, Brum C, Reis AJ, Macedo M, Scaini JL, Silva AB, Esteves L, Macedo R, Maltez F, Clemente S, Coelho E, Viegas S, Rabna P, Rodrigues A, Taveira N, Jordao L, Kritski A, Lapa e Silva JR, Mokrousov I, Couvin D, Rastogi N, Couto I, Pain A, McNerney R, Clark TG, von Groll A, Dalla Costa ER, Rossetti ML, Silva PEA, Viveiros M, Portugal I
Publication Year: 2019
Journal: Infection Genetics and Evolution
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1567134818301023?via%3Dihub%20

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major health problem within the Community of Portuguese Language Speaking Countries (CPLP). Despite the marked variation in TB incidence across its member-states and continued human migratory flux between countries, a considerable gap in the knowledge on the Mycobacterium tuberculosis population structure and strain circulation between the countries still exists. To address […]
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Short communication: detection and molecular characterization of hepatitis E virus in domestic animals of São Tomé and Príncipe

The need for planning training among public health officers in Cape Verde

Depressive symptoms at 13 years as predictors of depression in older adolescents: a prospective 4-year follow-up study in a nonclinical population

Clonal expansion across the seas as seen through CPLP-TB database: A joint effort in cataloguing Mycobacterium tuberculosis genetic diversity in Portuguese-speaking countries

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