Taenia solium is an important zoonosis in many developing countries. Cysticercosis poses a serious public health risk and incurs sizeable economic losses to pig production. Because data on the epidemiology of porcine cysticercosis in Mozambique are scarce, the present study was conducted to determine the...
Antibodies, Helminth,
Antibodies, Monoclonal,
Antigens, Helminth/blood,
Cysticercosis/epidemiology,
Cysticercosis/veterinary,
Endemic Diseases,
Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay,
Swine Diseases/epidemiology,
Swine Diseases/parasitology,
Taenia solium/isolation & purification,
Tongue/parasitology,
Mozambique/epidemiology
Westerman, Larry E;
Kohatsu, Luciana;
Ortiz, Astrid;
McClain, Bernice;
Kaplan, Jonathan;
Spira, Thomas;
Marston, Barbara;
Jani, Ilesh V;
Nkengasong, John;
Parsons, Linda M.
Quality assurance (QA) is a systematic process to monitor and improve clinical laboratory practices. The fundamental components of a laboratory QA program include providing a functional and safe laboratory environment, trained and competent personnel, maintained equipment, adequate supplies and reagents,...
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/therapy,
Anti-Retroviral Agents/therapeutic use,
CD4 Lymphocyte Count/instrumentation,
CD4 Lymphocyte Count/methods,
CD4 Lymphocyte Count/standards,
Laboratories/standards,
Medical Laboratory Personnel/standards,
Quality Assurance, Health Care,
Specimen Handling/methods,
Mozambique/epidemiology
Background: A legacy of colonial rule coupled with a devastating 16-year civil war through 1992 left Mozambique economically impoverished just as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic swept over southern Africa in the late 1980s. The crumbling Mozambican health care sys...
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/transmission,
Chronic Disease,
Medication Adherence,
Risk Reduction Behavior,
Epidemics,
Heterosexuality,
Microscopy, Electron, Scanning Transmission,
Mortality,
Prevalence,
Health Systems,
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome,
Viruses/immunology,
Midwifery,
Therapeutics,
Syndrome,
Attitude,
Poverty,
HIV,
Risk,
Medication Adherence/statistics & numerical data,
Africa/epidemiology,
Mozambique/epidemiology,
Knowledge,
Behavior,
Perception,
Disease Prevention,
Gender Identity,
Pharmaceutical Preparations,
Ethanol,
Delivery of Health Care,
Infrastructure
A Vigilância Epidemiológica do HIV‐SIDA, permite conhecer diferentes aspectos
relacionados à distribuição e à disseminação da infecção pelo HIV. Dados obtidos por
estes estudos são de fundamental importância para definir programas de prevenção e
controle desta doença. Neste trabalho são...
As doenças infecciosas constituem um dos principais problemas de saúde no continente
Africano, especialmente na África Subsariana, da qual Moçambique faz parte. A participação
de fatores genéticos na susceptibilidade dos humanos às doenças infecciosas é um fato. A
identificação de marcadores ...
Communicable Diseases,
Gene Frequency,
Genetic Markers,
Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length/immunology,
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics,
Polymerase Chain Reaction,
Immune System,
Pyruvic Acid,
Tuberculosis,
Mozambique/epidemiology
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...
Mozambique/epidemiology,
Middle Aged,
Human T-lymphotropic virus 1,
Physiology,
Allergy and Immunology,
HTLV-I Infections,
Virology,
Pathology,
Blood,
Flow Cytometry,
Women,
Disease Progression,
CD4 Lymphocyte Count,
Adult,
HIV,
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome,
Antibodies, Monoclonal,
Flow Cytometry,
T-Lymphocytes,
Leukemia, T-Cell
Background: An artemisinin-based combination therapy, artesunate (AS) plus sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP), was compared to SP monotherapy to provide evidence of further treatment options in southern Mozambique.
Methods: Between 2003 and 2005, 411 patients over one year and 10 kg with uncomplicated Plasm...
Antimalarials/therapeutic use,
Artemisinins/therapeutic use,
Malaria, Falciparum/diet therapy,
Malaria, Falciparum/genetics,
Malaria, Falciparum/parasitology,
Plasmodium falciparum/isolation & purification,
Plasmodium falciparum/drug effects,
Mozambique/epidemiology
Ordi, Jaume;
Ismail, Mamudo R;
Carrilho, Carla;
Romagosa, Cleofe;
Osman, Nafissa;
Machungo, Fernanda;
Bombı, Josep A;
Balasch, Juan;
Alonso, Pedro L;
Menendez, Clara.
Background: Maternal mortality is a major public-health problem in developing countries. Extreme differences in maternal mortality rates between developed and developing countries indicate that most of these deaths are preventable. Most information on the causes of maternal death in these areas is based ...
Sacarlal, Jahit 123;
Nhacolo, Ariel Q;
Sigaúque, Betuel;
Nhalungo, Delino A;
Abacassamo, Fatima;
Sacoor, Charfudin N;
Aide, Pedro;
Machevo, Sonia;
Nhampossa, Tacilta;
Macete, Eusébio V;
Bassat, Quique;
David, Catarina;
Bardají, Azucena;
Letang, Emili;
Saúte, Francisco;
Aponte, John J;
Thompson, Ricardo;
Alonso, Pedro L.
Approximately 46 million of the estimated 60 million deaths that occur in the world each year take place in developing countries. Further, this mortality is highest in Sub-Saharan Africa, although causes of mortality in this region are not well documented. The objective of this study is to describe the m...
Hutton, guy;
Schellenberg, david;
Tediosi, fabrizio;
Macete, eusebio;
Kahigwa, elizeus;
Sigauque, betuel;
Mas, xavier;
Trapero, marta;
Tanner, marcel;
Menendez, clara;
Alonso, pedro;
Trilla, antoni.
Objective: To estimate the cost-effectiveness of malaria intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) using sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP). Methods: In two previous IPTi trials in Ifakara (United Republic of Tanzania) and Manhiça (Mozambique), SP was administered three times to infants before 9 m...
