BACKGROUND During routine Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) diagnosis, an unusually high viral load was detected by reverse transcription real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) in a nasopharyngeal swab sample collected from a patient with respiratory and neurological symptoms who rapidly succumbed to the disease. Therefore we sought to characterise the infection. OBJECTIVES We aimed to determine and characterise the etiological agent responsible for the poor outcome. METHODS Classical virological methods, such as plaque assay and plaque reduction neutralisation test combined with amplicon-based sequencing, as well as a viral metagenomic approach, were performed to characterise the etiological agents of the infection. FINDINGS Plaque assay revealed two distinct plaque phenotypes, suggesting either the presence of two severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) strains or a productive coinfection of two different species of virus. Amplicon-based sequencing did not support the presence of any SARS-CoV-2 genetic variants that would explain the high viral load and suggested the presence of a single SARS-CoV-2 strain. Nonetheless, the viral metagenomic analysis revealed that Coronaviridae and Herpesviridae were the predominant virus families within the sample. This finding was confirmed by a plaque reduction neutralisation test and PCR. MAIN CONCLUSIONS We characterised a productive coinfection of SARS-CoV-2 and Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) in a patient with severe symptoms that succumbed to the disease. Although we cannot establish the causal relationship between the coinfection and the severity of the clinical case, this work serves as a warning for future studies focused on the interplay between SARS-CoV-2 and HSV-1 coinfection and COVID-19 severity.

RESUMO As espécies florestais tolerantes à sombra estão entre as mais suscetíveis à perda de habitat em mosaicos agrícolas, onde uma variedade de terras agrícolas está conectada a florestas em diferentes níveis de distúrbio antropogênico. Este trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar a similaridade da comunidade de espécies tolerantes à sombra entre diferentes tipos de uso da terra em mosaicos agrícolas com diferentes níveis de perturbação. O estudo foi realizado em três municípios localizados no sul e sudeste do estado do Pará. Uma medida de similaridade de comunidade múltipla baseada no índice de similaridade de Horn foi usada para comparar diferentes tipos de uso da terra em três diferentes mosaicos. Alta similaridade de espécies tolerantes à sombra foi encontrada entre fragmentos de florestas maduras que sofreram diferentes níveis de distúrbio nos três mosaicos agrícolas, mas florestas secundárias apresentaram menor semelhança com a floresta madura no mosaico mais fragmentado e alterado. As espécies tolerantes à sombra apresentaram densidades muito baixas nas terras agrícolas, no entanto, o mesmo grupo de espécies tolerantes à sombra parece colonizar os cultivos anuais e as pastagens limpas. Por outro lado, outro grupo de espécies esteve presente em pastagens invadidas. As plantações mistas de árvores foram mais semelhantes às florestas maduras e secundárias do que outros tipos de terras agrícolas. Nossos resultados sugerem que a conservação de florestas maduras e da conectividade da paisagem são cruciais para a manutenção de espécies tolerantes à sombra em mosaicos agrícolas.

ABSTRACT Shade-tolerant forest species are among the most susceptible to habitat loss in agricultural mosaics, where a variety of croplands is connected to forests at different levels of anthropogenic disturbance. We aimed to evaluate the community similarity of shade-tolerant species among different land use types across agricultural mosaics with different levels of disturbance. The study was conducted in three municipalities in southern and southeastern Pará state, in eastern Amazonia. A multiple-community similarity measure based on the Horn similarity index was used to compare land use types and assess the resilience of shade-tolerant species towards forest loss and disturbance at the landscape level. High shade-tolerant species similarity was found between mature forest fragments that underwent different levels of disturbance in all three agricultural mosaics, but secondary forests had lower similarity with mature forest in the most fragmented and altered mosaic. Shade-tolerant species showed very low density in croplands, but the same group of species seemed to colonize agricultural fields of annual crops and clean pasture, as they showed high community similarity. Another group of species was present in invaded pastures, probably due to the effects of time since land abandonment after woody species colonization. Mixed tree plantations were more similar to mature and secondary forests than other types of croplands. Shade-tolerant species similarity was higher among land use types inserted in agricultural landscapes that maintained conserved forest fragments. Our results suggest that the conservation of mature forests and landscape connectivity are crucial to the maintenance of shade-tolerant species in agricultural mosaics.

RESUMO: A competitividade no mercado agrícola tem tornado intensa a busca pela redução de custo nos processos de produção, como é o caso da colheita do café ( Coffea arabica L.), que tem migrado da colheita manual para a semi mecanizada e mecanizada. Essa transição proporcionou o surgimento de novas tecnologias e diversos modelos de colhedoras, as quais permitem regulagens que influenciam diretamente na eficiência de derriça. Entretanto, entender o comportamento dinâmico dos componentes e sistemas das colhedoras é de extrema importância para o desenvolvimento de novos produtos e recomendações de regulagem para colheita plena ou seletiva. Nesse contexto, objetivou-se analisar a vibração das hastes derriçadoras de uma colhedora de café, em diferentes regulagens, a fim de entender seu comportamento dinâmico em termos de amplitude e frequência de vibração, e inferir sobre a recomendação de regulagens para a colheita mecânica do café. A metodologia utilizada, baseada na análise dos sinais de vibração das hastes derriçadoras, possibilitou a recomendação de regulagens para a colheita mecânica do café, em função das amplitudes de vibração das hastes derriçadoras. O estudo mostrou que as maiores amplitudes de vibração das hastes no sentido vertical ocorreram para as regulagens de 8 e 10Kgf no freio, na vibração de 950 ciclos min-1 do cilindro e com hastes de 570mm de comprimento. Os resultados permitem associar o comportamento de vibração das hastes derriçadoras com os objetivos da colheita, plena ou seletiva, apontando qual a regulagem específica a ser utilizada para cada finalidade.

ABSTRACT: Growers need to reduce costs of the coffee production to meet the demand and stay competitive in the market. Such a need has led to the application of mechanization in the coffee harvest ( Coffea Arabica L.), which is a costly process and requires high cost of manpower, and this last is increasingly scarce. The migration from manual harvest to semi-mechanized or super-mechanized made new technologies and diverse models of coffee harvesting machines emerge. These coffee harvesting machines have settings that directly influence the harvesting efficiency. To understand the dynamic behavior of coffee harvesting machines components and systems is very important to develop new products, setting and operation norms. In this context, this reseach aimed to analyze the vibration of the harvester rods of an automatic coffee harvesting, by considering different adjustments, in order to understand its dynamic behavior in terms of amplitude and frequency of vibration, and to infer about adjustment recommendations for the mechanical harvesting coffee. Results showed that the harvesting studied presented larger amplitudes of vibration of stems vertically when set for 8 and 10Kgf of curb, at vibration of 950 cycles min1 of cylinder and with the stems of 570mm of length; the highest efficiency occurs when the rods vibrate vertically, promoting greater contact between the rods and side branches and fruit of the coffee plant. Also, the achieved results can be very useful as a guide for adjusting coffee harvesting machines, for research anddevelopment of new technologies to the benefit of the grower.

A insuficiência renal crônica é doença de elevada morbidade e mortalidade e sua incidência e prevalência em estágio terminal têm aumentado progressivamente a cada ano. Segundo a Sociedade Brasileira de Nefrologia, as principais causas de insuficiência renal crônica são hipertensão arterial, glomerulonefrite e diabetes mellitus. Diversos fatores elevam o risco de mortalidade em pacientes com nefropatia crônica, principalmente idade, presença de diabetes e número de comorbidades associadas. Para pacientes com menos de 50 anos de idade a taxa de sobrevida em 5 anos é de 62% e para aqueles acima desta idade e com diagnóstico de diabetes mellitus a sobrevida é de apenas 23%. A carambola, fruta originária da Ásia e muito difundida na maioria dos países tropicais, tem sido reportada como contendo uma neurotoxina capaz de provocar graves alterações neurológicas em pacientes com histórico de nefropatia crônica. Dentre estas alterações podemos observar desde quadros leves, como soluços e confusão mental, até quadros mais sérios, como convulsões e morte. Essa neurotoxina parece apresentar especificamente inibição sobre o sistema de condução GABAérgico. Descrevemos o caso de um paciente nefropata crônico que, após ingestão de carambola, inicia quadro de mal-estar, náuseas e vômitos, seguidos de episódios convulsivos reentrantes e vai a óbito mesmo com o tratamento hemodialítico convencional.

Chronic renal failure is a high morbidity and mortality condition, with its terminal phase incidence and prevalence steadily growing year after year. According to the Sociedade Brasileira de Nefrologia [Brazilian Society of Nephrology], the main causes of renal failure are arterial hypertension, glomerulonephritis and diabetes mellitus. Several factors are implied on chronic renal failure patients' risk of mortality, particularly age, diabetes and associated co-morbidities. For patients below 50 years old, the 5 years survival rate is 62% and for those above this age and with diabetes mellitus, just 23%. Star fruit is native from Asia, and widespread in tropical countries; this fruit was reported as having a neurotoxin able to cause serious neurological changes in chronic renal disease patients. These may range from mild features, such as hiccup and confusion, to serious episodes with seizures and death. This neurotoxin apparently inhibits specifically the GABAergic conduction system. This paper describes a case involving a chronic renal disease patient who, after ingesting star fruit, featured malaise, nausea and vomiting, followed by repeated convulsions and died even though undergoing conventional hemodialysis therapy.