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Home / Archives for 2021

Trypanosoma cruzi discrete typing unit TcIV implicated in a case of acute Chagas disease in a domiciliated dog in the western Amazon

  • Autores: Luciene Almeida Siqueira de Vasconcelos, Josué Costa Oliveira, Rubens Celso Andrade da Silva Junior, Silvia Cássia Brandão Justiniano, Éder dos Santos Souza, Laylah Kelre Costa Magalhães, Henrique Silveira, George Allan Villarouco da Silva, Jorge Augusto de Oliveira Guerra, Maria das Graças Vale Barbosa Guerra
  • Ano de Publicação: 2021
  • Journal: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, vol 54, art e0873-2020
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0873-2020

ABSTRACT Chagas disease is caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. Seven lineages have been identified based on different molecular markers, namely TcI, TcII, TcIII, TcIV, TcV, TcVI, and TcBat. Dogs play the role of epidemiological sentinels being domestic reservoirs of T. cruzi. The aim of the current study was to report the first case of […]
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Towards a needs-based design of the physical rehabilitation workforce in South Africa: trend analysis [1990–2017] and a 5-year forecasting for the most impactful health conditions based on global burden of disease estimates

  • Autores: Quinette Louw, Karen Grimmer, Karina Berner, Thandi Conradie, Diribsa Tsegaye Bedada, Tiago Silva Jesus
  • Ano de Publicação: 2021
  • Journal: BMC Public Health, vol 21, art 913
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10962-y

ABSTRACT ‘Background:’ Rehabilitation can improve function in many people with chronic health conditions. It is important to consider priority conditions requiring rehabilitation, so it can be realistically positioned and costed in national health financing systems like South Africa (SA)‘s proposed National Health Insurance (NHI). This paper describes temporal trends of top-ranked conditions on years lived […]
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The use of antimicrobial-impregnated fabrics in health services: an integrative review

  • Autores: Guilherme Schneider, Felipe Lazarini Bim, Álvaro Francisco Lopes de Sousa, Evandro Watanabe, Denise de Andrade, Inês Fronteira
  • Ano de Publicação: 2021
  • Journal: Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, vol 29, art e3416
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.1590/1518-8345.4668.3416

ABSTRACT ‘Objective:’ to analyze evidence concerning the feasibility of antimicrobial-impregnated fabrics in preventing and controlling microbial transmission in health services. ‘Method:’ an integrative review using the following databases: MEDLINE (via PubMed), Web of Science, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Scopus, and Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature (LILACS), regardless of […]
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The role of Design Science Research Methodology in developing pharmacy eHealth services

  • Autores: João Gregório, Lígia Reis, Mariana Peyroteo, Melanie Maia, Miguel Mira da Silva, Luís Velez Lapão
  • Ano de Publicação: 2021
  • Journal: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 17(12), pp 2089-2096
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2021.05.016

ABSTRACT The increasing focus on efficiency of care has prompted health systems to look for innovative solutions that yield maximum value for care. Integration of care and eHealth are seen as the most promising solutions in the high technological environment of the coming decades. Pharmacy services have been developed to a point where the face […]
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The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: A syndemic perspective

  • Autores: Inês Fronteira, Mohsin Sidat, João Paulo Magalhães, Fernando Passos Cupertino de Barros, António Pedro Delgado, Tiago Correia, Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro, Paulo Ferrinho
  • Ano de Publicação: 2021
  • Journal: One Health, vol 12, art 100228
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2021.100228

ABSTRACT The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has affected communities, populations, and countries throughout the world. As the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic developed, the extent to which the disease interacted with already existing endemic, non-communicable and infectious diseases became evident, hence deeply influencing health outcomes. Additionally, a synergistic effect has been demonstrated also with socio-economic, cultural, and contextual determinants of […]
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