Background: The prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in Mozambique is one of the highest in the world, though in spite of this the prevalence of occult hepatitis B infection (OBI) is unknown.
Objectives: This study was conducted with the aim to ...
Anti-HIV Agents/therapeutic use,
DNA, Viral/genetics,
HIV Infections/complications,
Hepatitis B/complications,
Hepatitis B/diagnosis,
Hepatitis B virus/genetics,
Mozambique,
Hepatitis B virus/isolation & purification,
d0065140,
Viral Load
Chambal, Lúcia Mabalane;
Gudo, Eduardo Samo;
Carimo, Awa;
Real, Rita Corte;
Mabunda, Nédio;
Maueia, Cremildo;
Vubil, Adolfo;
Zicai, Ana Flora;
Bhatt, Nilesh;
Antunes, Francisco.
Background HIV/ HBVcoinfected patients are at high risk of developing chronic HBV infection, liver cir rhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. In Mozambique, where HIV prevalence is one of the highest in the world, HIV-infected patients are scarcely characterized in terms of HBV coin fection and 3TC-resista...
d0065280,
Hepatitis B virus/genetics,
HIV Infections/blood,
HIV Infections/virology,
HIV Infections/complications,
Coinfection/epidemiology,
Hepatitis B, Chronic/complications,
Hepatitis B, Chronic/virology,
Mutation,
Mozambique
Viegas, sofia omar;
Machado, adelina;
Groenheit, Ramona;
Ghebremichael, solomon;
Pennhag, alexandra;
Gudo, eduardo samo;
Cuna, zaina;
Langa, egídio;
Miotto, paolo;
Cirillo, Daniela, M.
The Beijing genotype is a lineage of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that is distributed worldwide and responsible for large epidemics, associated with multidrug-resistance. However, its distribution in Africa is less understood due to the lack of data. Our aim was to investigate the prevalence and possible t...
Mycobacterium tuberculosis,
AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/epidemiology,
AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/microbiology,
Coinfection/epidemiology,
Mozambique,
Coinfection/microbiology,
Mycobacterium tuberculosis/genetics,
Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length,
Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant/genetics,
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/microbiology
Multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) is useful to establish transmission routes and sources of infections for various microorganisms including Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC). The recently released SITVITWEB database contains 12-loci Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive ...
Bacterial Typing Techniques,
Bayes Theorem,
Genetic Loci/genetics,
Genotype,
Internationality,
Interspersed Repetitive Sequences/genetics,
Microsatellite Repeats/genetics,
Mycobacterium tuberculosis/classification,
Mycobacterium tuberculosis/genetics,
Phylogeny,
Phylogeography
Mehta, ushma;
Clerk, christine;
Allen, elizabeth;
Yore, mackensie;
Sevene, esperança;
Singlovic, jan;
Petzold, max;
Mangiaterra, viviana;
Elefant, elizabeth;
Sullivan, frank M;
Holmes, lewis B;
Gomes, melba.
Background: The absence of robust evidence of safety of medicines in pregnancy, particularly those for major diseases provided by public health programmes in developing countries, has resulted in cautious recommendations on their use. We describe a protocol for a Pregnancy Registry adapted to resource-li...
What is now referred to by western societies as mental illness, was - and in some way
still is – understood along the centuries using different interpretations. Associated with
each of these interpretations are specifically, an historic moment, and cultural meanings
vast and complex.
The concentrati...
Mental Disorders/therapy,
Social Representation,
Stereotyping,
Social Discrimination,
Disaster Vulnerability,
Health Personnel,
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice,
Homeopathic Cure,
Medicine, Traditional,
Foraminifera/isolation & purification,
Therapeutics/methods,
Mozambique
Tuberculosis (TB) presents a serious problem in Mozambique. HIV prevalence among TB patients is estimated at 47%. A delay in having their first CD4+ cell count could lead to a missed opportunity for ART initiation due to a CD4+ cell increase above the cut-off caused by TB treatment. The objective is to d...
HIV Seropositivity/immunology,
Confidence Intervals,
CD4 Lymphocyte Count,
Anti-Retroviral Agents/therapeutic use,
Mozambique/epidemiology,
HIV Seropositivity/therapy,
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/therapy,
CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/radiation effects,
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/immunology
Bergeron, michèle;
Daneau, géraldine;
Ding, tao;
Sitoe, Nádia;
Westerman, larry, e;
Stokx, jocelijn;
Jani, ilesh, v;
Coetzee, lindi, m;
Scott, lesley;
Weggheleire, anja de;
Boel, Luc;
Stevens, wendy, s;
Glencross, deborah;
Peter, trevor, f.
Introduction: Point-of-care (POC) CD4 testing can improve access to treatment by enabling decentralization and reducing patient loss-to-follow-up. As new POC CD4 technologies become available, their performance should be assessed before widespread deployment. This study reports the findings of five indep...
Background: Plasmodium falciparum and HIV-1 infection cause substantial morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Increasing evidence suggests these two pathogens interact negatively when infecting the same individual.
Methods: A cross-sectional study among HIV-1 infected and uninfected populations...
