Search Results - "Pereira, Geraldo Moura"
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Application of Venn's diagram in the diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis using IFN-γ, IP-10 and adenosine deaminase
Published in PloS one (27-08-2018)“…Pleural tuberculosis (PlTB) is the most common extrapulmonary manifestation of this infectious disease which still presents high mortality rates worldwide…”
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Statins increase rifampin mycobactericidal effect
Published in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy (01-10-2014)“…Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium tuberculosis antimicrobial resistance has been followed with great concern during the last years, while the need for new…”
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Changes in B Cell Pool of Patients With Multibacillary Leprosy: Diminished Memory B Cell and Enhanced Mature B in Peripheral Blood
Published in Frontiers in immunology (21-09-2021)“…Despite being treatable, leprosy still represents a major public health problem, and many mechanisms that drive leprosy immunopathogenesis still need to be…”
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Interruption of persistent exposure to leprosy combined or not with recent BCG vaccination enhances the response to Mycobacterium leprae specific antigens
Published in PLoS neglected tropical diseases (03-05-2017)“…Household contacts of multibacillary leprosy patients (HCMB) constitute the group of individuals at the highest risk of developing leprosy. Early diagnosis and…”
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Neutrophil CD64 expression levels in IGRA-positive individuals distinguish latent tuberculosis from active disease
Published in Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (01-01-2019)“…CD64 (FcγR1) is a high-affinity receptor for monomeric IgG1 and IgG3. Circulating neutrophils express very low amounts of CD64 on their surface. Our primary…”
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New insights into the pathogenesis of leprosy: contribution of subversion of host cell metabolism to bacterial persistence, disease progression, and transmission [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]
Published in F1000 research (2020)“…Chronic infection by the obligate intracellular pathogen Mycobacterium leprae may lead to the development of leprosy. Of note, in the lepromatous clinical form…”
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Atypical lymphocytosis in leptospirosis: a cohort of hospitalized cases between 1996 and 2009 in State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Published in Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (01-10-2011)“…Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease found in tropical and temperate countries, and its clinical diagnostic confusion with arboviruses (dengue fever, oropouche…”
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Reduction of host cell mitochondrial activity as Mycobacterium leprae’s strategy to evade host innate immunity
Published in Immunological reviews (01-05-2021)“…Leprosy is a much‐feared incapacitating infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae or M lepromatosis, annually affecting roughly 200,000 people…”
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Modulation of the Response to Mycobacterium leprae and Pathogenesis of Leprosy
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (02-06-2022)“…The initial infection by the obligate intracellular bacillus Mycobacterium leprae evolves to leprosy in a small subset of the infected individuals…”
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Reduction of host cell mitochondrial activity as M. leprae’s strategy to evade host innate immunity
Published in Immunological reviews (28-04-2021)“…Leprosy is a much-feared incapacitating infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae or M. lepromatosis , annually affecting roughly 200,000 people…”
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Application of Venn's diagram in the diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis using IFN-[gamma], IP-10 and adenosine deaminase
Published in PloS one (27-08-2018)“…Background Pleural tuberculosis (PlTB) is the most common extrapulmonary manifestation of this infectious disease which still presents high mortality rates…”
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Atypical lymphocytosis in leptospirosis: a cohort of hospitalized cases between 1996 and 2009 in State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Linfócitos atípicos na leptospirose: coorte de pacientes hospitalizados entre 1996 e 2009, Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Published in Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (01-10-2011)“…INTRODUCTION: Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease found in tropical and temperate countries, and its clinical diagnostic confusion with arboviruses (dengue…”
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