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Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, Volume: 64, Published: 2022

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Sequencing of the first case of the monkeypox virus in Brazil

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Low frequency of SARS-CoV2 infection in daycare centers during the reopening of school activities in the Southeast’s poor area of Brazil

High incidence of acute Q fever among incarcerated people in Cayenne, French Guiana

SARS-CoV-2 and rhinovirus infections: are there differences in clinical presentation, laboratory abnormalities, and outcomes in the pediatric population?

Gene-Xpert Ultra for the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in children and adolescents

Impact of COVID-19 on liver transplant recipients during the first pandemic wave, in a tertiary hospital, in Northeastern Brazil

Population pharmacokinetic modeling of benznidazole in Brazilian patients with chronic Chagas disease

SARS-CoV-2 testing among patients and healthcare professionals in an HIV outpatient clinic in Brazil

Diabetic foot infection caused by bacteria of the Burkholderia cepacia complex: report of an unusual case and a scoping literature review

Meningitis caused by Capnocytophaga canimorsus in a COVID-19 patient: a rare complication of dog bites

Management and treatment of decompensated hepatic fibrosis and severe refractory Schistosoma mansoni ascites with transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt

Severe visceral leishmaniasis and COVID-19 coinfection in an immunosuppressed patient

Chronic type 2 reaction possibly triggered by an asymptomatic Bartonella henselae infection in a leprosy patient

Two-year history of lymphadenopathy and fever caused by Bartonella henselae in a child

COVID-19-associated meningoencephalitis in a Brazilian patient: case report and literature review

Pulmonary hemorrhage in dengue: differential diagnosis with acute viral respiratory syndromes including COVID-19

Short- and long-term effects of antiretroviral therapy on peripheral regulatory CD4+/CD25hi/CD127low T lymphocytes in people living with HIV/AIDS

Tenofovir-induced renal and bone toxicity: report of two cases and literature review

Galectin-3 and fibrosis intensity in Chronic Chagas Cardiomyopathy: a systematic review

Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein 3 as a vaccine candidate: a brief review

Microcephaly caused by or associated with congenital infections in the last 20 years in Brazil: a systematic review

Technical performance of a lateral flow immunoassay for detection of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG in the outpatient follow-up of non-severe cases and at different times after vaccination: comparison with enzyme and chemiluminescent immunoassays

Clarithromycin-resistant H. pylori primary strains and virulence genotypes in the Northeastern region of Brazil

Shotgun metagenomic sequencing of the first case of monkeypox virus in Brazil, 2022

Prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections versus knowledge, attitudes and practices of male residents in Brazilian urban slums: a cross-sectional study

Identification of α-L-fucosidase (ALFuc) of Blastocystis sp. subtypes ST1, ST2 and ST3

SARS-CoV-2 in saliva, viremia and seroprevalence for COVID-19 surveillance at a single hematopoietic stem cell transplantation center: a prospective cohort study

Epidemiological characterization of notified human brucellosis cases in Southern Brazil

Are the clinical features of leprosy and American tegumentary leishmaniasis worse in patients with both diseases?

Report of autochthonous cases of localized cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania (Leishmania) mexicana in vulnerable, susceptible areas of Southeastern Mexico

Predominance of Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis DNA in Lutzomyia longipalpis sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) from an endemic area for leishmaniasis in Northeastern Brazil

Follow-up of patients with COVID-19 by the Delta variant after hospital discharge in Guangzhou, Guandong, China

Spatio-temporal dynamics of dengue-related deaths and associated factors

Malaria at international borders: challenges for elimination on the remote Brazil-Peru border

Usefulness of laboratory parameters and chest CT in the early diagnosis of COVID-19

String test: a potentially useful tool in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in Brazilian children and adolescents

Silent circulation of Chikungunya virus among pregnant women and newborns in the Western Brazilian Amazon before the first outbreak of chikungunya fever

Molecular dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic in Espirito Santo (Brazil) and border States

A new focus of spotted fever caused by Rickettsia parkeri in Brazil

Adult patients admitted to a tertiary hospital for COVID-19 and risk factors associated with severity: a retrospective cohort study

Generation of neutralizing antibodies against Omicron, Gamma and Delta SARS-CoV-2 variants following CoronaVac vaccination

An algorithm based on molecular protocols to improve the detection of Plasmodium in autochthonous malarial areas in the Atlantic Forest biome

Coxsackievirus A6 strains causing an outbreak of hand-foot-and-mouth disease in Northeastern Brazil in 2018

Toxocara canis 30-35 kDa excretory-secretory antigen is an important marker in mice challenged by inocula containing different parasite load levels

Secondary infections in a cohort of patients with COVID-19 admitted to an intensive care unit: impact of gram-negative bacterial resistance

Mapping the morbidity and mortality of Chagas disease in an endemic area in Brazil

Spurious infection by Calodium hepaticum (Bancroft, 1983) Moravec, 1982 and intestinal parasites in forest reserve dwellers in Western Brazilian Amazon

Biodiversity assessment of Phlebotomine (Diptera: Psychodidae) in an environmental impacted area in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

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Sequencing of the first case of the monkeypox virus in Brazil

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