Epidemiology

Disease

The avian coccidiosis agent’s genes

Genes of protozoans behind avian coccidiosis are catalogued

Aids

More virulent HIV strains

More aggressive HIV variants become more frequent

Dengue fever

Type 4 dengue fever virus in SP

Type 4 virus identified in São Paulo for the first time

in last decade

The advance of asthma in children and adolescents

Prevalence of asthma in Brazil grows among children and adolescents

Memory

At the infection front

Rocha Lima discovered the origin of exanthematic typhus, 95 years ago

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A map of types of hepatitis

How many and where are those who suffer from hepatites in Brazil

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Public health

Before waging war on mosquitoes

Context of trip determines whether it is necessary to take malaria medication

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Biotechnology

Genetic solutions

Transgenic mosquitoes are set free in Bahia to fight dengue fever

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Parasitology

Hidden aggressiveness

Team from Unicamp overturns the idea that there is a mild form of malaria

Health

The third wave

Groups start a new phase in the pursuit of an anti-HIV vaccine

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Epidemiology

Halting steps

New studies show how to detect and reduce the risk of falls among the aged

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Memory

The plagues

Microbiology Museum opens Great epidemics, a traveling exhibition

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Public Health

Difficult progress

Poverty expands uncertainties around research into TB treatments

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Medicine

Exaggerated reaction

The cause of swine flu induces inflammation that destroys lung cells

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Cover

Variations on a suffocating theme

Asthma may be a group of illnesses instead of just one

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Epidemiology

The origin of illnesses

Six states join in a survey about heart diseases and diabetes

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Epidemiology

Concentrated Risk

60% of asymptomatic carriers of the HIV with resistance to drugs are in SP

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virology

A little known celebrity

Adolfo Lutz team isolates the first swine flu virus samples

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Epidemiology

Restless nights

Apnea impairs the sleep of millions of people in the city of São Paulo

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Retrospect

On their own skin

106 years ago, Emilio Ribas and Adolpho Lutz proved that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes

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leishmaniasis

Leishmaniasis in our cities

Protozoan that causes the disease was detected in dogs that lives in Sao Paulo

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Cell biology

A versatile parasite

Protozoan that causes malaria develops on the skin

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Nobel

The chorus of the excluded

The organization adds another name to the gallery of those who feel forgotten

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Funding

United States

Research foundations are working to create a network for investigating malaria

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Memory

Chasing the barber bug (T. cruzi)

Emmanuel Dias prepared the earliest campaigns to eradicate Chagas Disease in Brazil

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public health

A pre-announced disease

Visceral leishmaniasis spreads throughout Brazilian cities

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Public Health

Plan of war against the virus

Brazil is getting ready to face bird flu

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