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Newsletter - Issue 63 |
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Faster and more portable tuberculosis diagnosis will be reality in a few years
Infectious diseases physician Ana Luíza Gibertoni Cruz alerts that the current delay diagnosing and treating the disease, besides affecting the patient’ Imagine a device that, within minutes, sequences the whole genome of tuberculosis (TB), thus providing a fast and effective answer as to which combination of anti-TB drugs is the ideal one to treat each patient, in a very personalised fashion. 
Resistance to the ITNs has been detected in African and Asian countries, but in Brazil, resistance among malaria vectors is still Unknown Malaria: even with the benefits of bed nets, the best tool to control it is diagnosis and early treatmentStudies have shown that insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) have a potential to increase the efforts controlling malaria in high insecticide resistance areas - inclusive a recently disclosed and conducted by the London Tropical Medicine and Hygiene School. However, many of these works are conducted in isolated forms, according to Doctor José Bento Lima... 
Dr. Rehen believes the researcher must diversify their sources for fundraising, whether from Brazil or the USA Despite the dramatic moment, it is possible to perform good science in Brazil, says Doctor Stevens RehenDoctor Stevens Rehen, besides being one of Brazil's most renowned neuroscientists, is a professional who believes it is possible to perform top-of-the-line research in the Country - even in face of the Brazilian tough situation, both for economy and for politics. Dr. Rehen, professor at the Biomedical Sciences Institute at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), is one of the professionals...
External validation of a prototype kit for direct agglutination test for Visceral Leishmaniasis wins the Masters Category in the 2016 Young Researcher Award
DAT-LPC test is easy to execute and to interpret, with great performance and low cost, allowing an assertive HVL diagnosis In its third edition, the 2016 Young Researcher Award brought novelties. The works, which previously ran against each other... |
'Relapse cases among patients under malaria treatment' is the winner of the Undergraduate Category of the 2016 Young Researcher Award
Researchers assessed 46 people submitted to malaria treatment who, afterwards, recurred of the disease's symptoms Many factors have brought to light the relevance of malaria by Plasmodium vivax, as the... |
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From 25 to 28 October 2016 Entomol - VI Workshop Genetics and Molecular Biology of insect vectors of tropical diseases Registration open until 25/11/2016 Specialization Course in Infectious Diseases for Foreign Medical 2017
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Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine - Center for Tropical Medicine - UnB |
