NEWSLETTER - Issue 135 - October 15, 2022

Chagas disease: new compound shows promise in treatment

The effectiveness of the new drug in non-human primates is a hope for performance in humans

Leprosy: researchers find potential markers for disease diagnosis

Early diagnosis and treatment strategy are fundamental to cure, which decreases the chance of sequelae

Tegumentary leishmaniasis: researchers develop biocurative for less painful treatment

Treatment of leishmaniasis still has medications with potentially serious adverse effects

Tuberculosis: BCG prevents disease in young children but not in adults

Researchers investigated the impact of BCG in children on development and mortality from pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis

Interview

Why does Brazil not resume production of the Montenegro test?

Diagnosis is important to safely treat patients and avoid indiscriminate use of potentially toxic treatments

good science

Coronaviruses exploit a host cysteine-aspartic protease for replication

Long-primed germinal centres with enduring affinity maturation and clonal migration

COVID-19 and children

The clinical effect of point-of-care HIV diagnosis in infants: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Simulating respiratory disease transmission within and between classrooms to assess pandemic management strategies at schools

Using phylogenetics to infer HIV-1 transmission direction between known transmission pairs

Rats and the city: Implications of urbanization on zoonotic disease risk in Southeast Asia

Dolutegravir in Pregnancy as Compared with Current HIV Regimens in the United States

Bedaquiline-Pretomanid-Linezolid Regimens for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

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Chief-editor:
Carlos Henrique Nery Costa

Assignment editors:
Alda Maria Da-Cruz
Carlos Henrique Nery Costa

Journalism:
Denise de Quadros
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Translation:
Pedro Costa

Graphics and diagramation:
Leandro Matos