NEWSLETTER - Issue 141 - April 15, 2023

Dengue: Takeda's vaccine is approved in Brazil

The granting of the registration by Anvisa allows the commercialization of the product in the country, as long as the approved conditions are maintained

Tuberculosis: new vaccines can prevent millions of deaths

If proven effective in clinical trials, the candidate vaccines will be additional control tools to reverse the advancement of tuberculosis

Chagas disease: Genetic adaptations help Amazonian populations resist infection

Exposure to the pathogen triggered adaptation mechanisms that, more than seven millennia ago, ended up selecting a gene that confers resistance to the disease

Interview

Malaria: Mining areas pose a challenge to controlling the disease

Illegal mining causes malaria outbreak among indigenous people in the Amazon

Images In Infectious Diseases

Chylothorax and chylous ascites due to juvenile paracoccidioidomycosis: a case report

Chylothorax is one of several complications of PCM and can lead to respiratory insufficiency, even in patients undergoing antifungal therapy

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Chief-editora:
Rosália Morais Torres

Assignment editors:
Alda Maria Da-Cruz
André Siqueira
Márcia Hueb
Rodrigo Stabeli
Rosália Morais Torres

Journalism:
Denise de Quadros
MTb 8458 DRT/RS

Translation:
Pedro Costa

Graphics and diagramation:
Leandro Matos