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Estudo dos aspectos soroepidemiológicos e imunológicos da infecção pelo vírus da hepatite B (hbv) em pacientes infectados pelo vírus da imunodeficiência humana (hiv) atendidos no centro de saúde do alto-maé, maputo-moçambique

A hepatite é uma doença infeccios a que constitui um problema de saúde pública mundial. De entre os diferentes vírus que causam hepatite, o vírus da hepatite B (HBV),representa uma das maiores causas mundiais de hepatite crônica, cirrose e carcinoma hepatocelular, apesar da vacina para hepatite B ...

Co-infection by human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and human T cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1): does immune activation lead to a faster progression to AIDS?

BMC infect. dis; 9 (221), 2009
Background: Recent data have shown that HTLV-1 is prevalent among HIV positive patients in Mozambique, although the impact of HTLV-1 infection on HIV disease progression remains controversial. Our aim was to determine the phenotypic profile of T lymphocytes subsets among Mozambican patients co-infected b...

A country-wide malaria survey in Mozambique. II. Malaria attributable proportion of fever and establishment of malaria case definition in children across different epidemiological settings

Malar. j. (Online); 8 (74), 2009
Background: Protection against clinical malaria episodes is acquired slowly after frequent exposure to malaria parasites. This is reflected by a decrease with increasing age in both parasite density and incidence of clinical episodes. In many settings of stable malaria transmission, the presence...