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Susceptibility antibiotic screening reveals high rates of multidrug resistance of Salmonella, Shigella and Campylobacter in HIV infected and uninfected patients from Mozambique

Hlashwayo, Delfina F.; Noormahomed, Emília V.; Bahule, Leonilde; Benson, Constance A.; Schooley, Robert T.; Sigaúque, Betuel; Barrett, Kim E.; Bila, Custódio G. (BMC, 2023)

Background Antibacterial resistance is a growing concern worldwide, including in Mozambique. Diarrhea is an important cause of mortality in Mozambique, yet few local studies have reported on the resistance of ...
Effectiveness of remote screening for diabetic retinopathy among patients referred to Mozambican Diabetes Association (AMODIA): a retrospective observational study

Rigato, Mauro; Nollino, Laura; Tiago, Armindo; Spedicato, Luigi; Simango, Leopoldo Moises Carlos; Putoto, Giovanni; Avogaro, Angelo; Fadini, Gian Paolo (Springer, 2022)

Aims Diabetes represents a growing public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa, where diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a major cause of permanent visual loss. We reported the results of a remote screening of DR among urbanized ...
Association study of eight candidate genes with renin status in mild-to-moderate hypertension in patients of African ancestry

Tiago, Armindo D.; Nkeh, Benedicta; Candy, Geoffrey P.; Badenhorst, Danelle; Defterios, Dawn; Brooksbank, Richard; Nejthardt, Martin; Luker, Francis; Milne, John; Woodiwiss, Angela J.; Norton, Gavin R. (University of the Witwatersrand, 2001)

Aim. We evaluated whether anyone variant of genes that encode for substances that could modulate renin-angiotensin-aldosterone (RAA) system activity can account for a substantial proportion of the variability of plasma RAA ...
Induction and decay of functional complement-fixing antibodies by the RTS,S malaria vaccine in children, and a negative impact of malaria exposure

Kurtovic, Liriye; Agius, Paul A.; Feng, Gaoqian; Drew, Damien R.; Ubillos, Itziar; Sacarlal, Jahit; Aponte, John J.; Fowkes, Freya J. I.; Dobaño, Carlota; Beeson, James G. (BMC, 2019)

Background: Leading malaria vaccine, RTS,S, is based on the circumsporozoite protein (CSP) of sporozoites. RTS,S confers partial protection against malaria in children, but efficacy wanes relatively quickly after ...
Prozone in malaria rapid diagnostics tests: how many cases are missed?

Gillet, Philippe; Scheirlinck, Annelies; Stokx, Jocelijn; Weggheleire, Anja de; Chaúque, Hélder S.; Canhanga, Oreana D. J. V.; Tadeu, Benvindo T.; Mosse, Carla D. D.; Tiago, Armindo; Mabunda, Samuel; Bruggema, Cathrien; Bottieau, Emmanuel; Jacobs, Jan (BioMed Central, 2011)

Background: Prozone means false-negative or false-low results in antigen-antibody reactions, due to an excess of either antigen or antibody. The present study prospectively assessed its frequency for malaria rapid diagnostic ...
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

Mabunda, Samuel; Aponte, John J.; Tiago, Armindo; Alonso, Pedro (BioMed Central, 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 ...
Impact of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system gene variants on the severity of hypertension in patients with newly diagnosed hypertension

Tiago, Armindo; Badenhorst, Danelle; Nkeh, Benedicta; Candy, Geoffrey P.; Brooksbank, Richard; Sarel, Pinhas; Libhabe, Elena; Samani, Nilesh J.; Woodiwiss, Angela J.; Norton, Gavin R. (Elsevier, 2003)

ackground:The severity of hypertension has prog-nostic significance. Previous studies have assessed therelationship between renin-angiotensin-aldosterone sys-tem (RAAS) genotype and the severity of hypertension ...
A rare anatomic piece of a horse shoe kidney

Dadá, Mahomed Sidique Abdul Cadar; Dadá, Abdul Habib Mahomed; Sacarlal, Jahit (Brazilian Society of Anatomy, 2022)

Introduction: the authors describe an unusual case of HORSE KIDNEY of a piece present in the museum of anatomy of the Faculty of Medicine at the Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique
An aldosterone synthase gene variant is associated with improvementin left ventricular ejection fraction in dilated cardiomyopathy

Tiago, Armindo; Badenhorst, Danelle; Skudicky, Daniel; Woodiwiss, Angela J.; Candy, Geoffrey P.; Brooksbank, Richard; Sliwa, Karen; Sareli, Pinhas; Norton, Gavin R. (Elsevier, 2002)

Objective:To assess whether renin–angiotensin–aldosterone (RAA) system gene polymorphisms shown to be associated withalterations in the activity of the system, may predict cardiac function changes ...
High rates of non-tuberculous mycobacteria isolationin Mozambican children with presumptive tuberculosis

Lopez-Varela, Elisa; Garcia-Basteir, Alberto L.; Augusto, Orvalho J.; Fraile, Oscar; Bulo, Helder; Ira, Tasmiya; Gondo, Kizito; Ingen, Jakko van; Naniche, Denise; Sacarlal, Jahit; Alonso, Pedro L. (PLOS, 2017)

Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) can cause disease which can be clinically and radiologically undistinguishable from tuberculosis (TB), posing a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge in high TB settings. We aim to describe ...
Frequência de factores de risco associados a co-infecção pelo HBV/HIV em doadores de sangue repositores do Hospital Central de Maputo e do Hospital Provincial de Xai-Xai, 2015

Chilengue, Eugénio Augusto; Sacarlal, Jahit (Revista Moçambicana de Ciências de Saude, 2019)

Foi realizado um estudo descritivo transversal com abordagem quantitativa para identificar a frequência dos factores de risco associados a co-infecção pelo vírus de Hepatite B (HBV) e vírus de imunodeficiência Humana (HIV) ...
Altered mental status among febrile hospitalized HIV-Infected children aged 0 - 59 months in Mozambique

Moon, Troy D.; Maússe, Fabião E.; Gebretsadik, Tebeb; Kenga, Darlenne B.; Charles, Pedro; Agy, Mustuafá; Simbine, Samuel; Sacarlal, Jahit (Oxford University Press., 2020)

Background:Altered mental status (AMS) is a priority presenting sign that must be assessed inHIV-infected, febrile children, yet diagnosis is difficult in areas with limited diagnostic capacity.Malaria and bacterial ...
Knowledge attitude and practice of students of the superior health schools of the Mozambican universities about Covid-19

Dadá, Abdul Habib Mahomed; Dadá, Mahomed Sidique Abdul Cadar; Sallé, Sheila Norberto; Belo, Celso; Mlucasse, Ramires; Rodriguez, Daimary Mendoza; Tivane, Pita Tomas; Dadá, Zulaikhah Mahomed Sidique; Sacarlal, Jahit (PhD Scientific Review, 2022-01)

In China, a viral disease emerged which spread to the remainder of the world at an impressive speed, making it a pandemic that led a majority of countries in the world to declare a state of partial or total emergency ...
Rapid spread and genetic diversification of HIV Type 1 subtype C in a rural area of Southern Mozambique

Lahuerta, Maria; Aparício, Ester; Bardaji, Azucena; Marco, Sandra; Sacarlal, Jahit; Mandomando, Inácio; Alonso, Pedro; Martinez, Miguel Angel; Menendez, Clara; Naniche, Denise (Mary Ann Liebert, Inc, 2008)

In this study, we analyzed the human immunodeficiency type 1 (HIV-1) viruses circulating between 1999 and 2004 in antiretroviral-naive women from a rural area of southern Mozambique. Nucleotide sequencing of the HIV-1 ...
Trends in comparative efficacy and safety of malaria control interventions for maternal and child health outcomes in Africa: a study protocol for a Bayesian network meta-regression exploring the effect of HIV and malaria endemicity spectrum

Amimo, Floriano; Moon, Troy D.; Magit, Anthony; Sacarlal, Jahit; Lambert, Ben; Nomura, Shuhei (BMJ, 2019)

Introduction Unprecedented global efforts to prevent malaria morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa have saved hundreds of thousands of lives across the continent in the last two decades. This study aims to determine ...
Improvement of fungal disease identification and management: combined health systems and public health approaches

Cole, Donald C.; Govender, Nelesh P.; Chakrabarti, Arunaloke; Sacarlal, Jahit; Denning, David W. (Lancet Infection Disease, 2017)

More than 1·6 million people are estimated to die of fungal diseases each year, and about a billion people have cutaneous fungal infections. Fungal disease diagnosis requires a high level of ...
High-risk lineages among extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli from extraintestinal infections in Maputo Central Hospital, Mozambique

Santona, Antonella; Sumbana, José João; Fiamma, Maura; Deligios, Massimo; Taviani, Elisa; Simbine, Samuel Elija; Zimba, Tomas; Sacarlal, Jahit; Rubino, Salvatore; Paglietti, Bianca (Elsevier, 2022)

Abstract Extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC), particularly high-risk lineages, are responsible for severe infections and increased mortality and hospital ...
A combined analysis of immunogenicity, antibody kinetics and vaccine efficacy from phase 2 trials of the RTS,S malaria vaccine

White, Michael T.; Bejon, Philip; Olotu, Ally; Griffin, Jamie T.; Bojang, Kalifa; Lusingu, John; Salim, Nahya; Abdulla, Salim; Otsyula, Nekoye; Agnandji, Selidji T.; Lell, Bertrand; Asante, Kwaku Poku; Owusu-Agyei, Seth; Mahama, Emmanuel; Agbenyega, Tsiri; Ansong, Daniel; Sacarlal, Jahit; Aponte, John J.; Ghan, Azra C. (BioMed Central, 2014)

Background: The RTS,S malaria vaccine is currently undergoing phase 3 trials. High vaccine-induced antibody titres to the circumsporozoite protein (CSP) antigen have been associated with protection from infection and ...
Estimated burden of serious fungal infections in Mozambique

Sacarlal, Jahit; Denning, David W. (MDPI, 2018-06)

Abstract: Mozambique is a sub-Saharan African country with limited information on the burden of fungal disease. We estimated the burden of serious fungal infections for the general healthy population and for those at ...
RTS,S vaccination is associated with serologic evidence of decreased exposure to plasmodium falciparum liver- and blood-stage parasites

Campo, Joe J.; Aponte, John J.; Skinner, Jeff; Nakajima, Rie; Molina, Douglas M.; Sacarlal, Jahit; Alonso, Pedro L.; Crompton, Peter D.; Felgner, Philip L.; Dobaño, Carlota (The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biolog, 2015)

The leading malaria vaccine candidate, RTS,S, targets the sporozoite and liver stages of the Plasmodium falciparum life cycle, yet it provides partial protection against disease associated with the subsequent blood stage ...

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