Doença de Chagas na população urbana do distrito sanitário de Rio Verde, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil

Com o objetivo de avaliar alguns aspectos da doença de Chagas na população urbana dos 12 municípios do distrito sanitário de Rio Verde, Mato Grosso do Sul, em 1998 realizamos a pesquisa de IgG anti-T. cruzi pela imunofluorescência indireta em amostras de sangue obtidas em papel de filtro de 14.709 moradores, com posterior confirmação pelos testes de hemaglutinação indireta e ELISA em soros. A parasitemia foi avaliada por xenodiagnóstico indireto em 134 chagásicos crônicos e a cardiopatia por anamnese, exame físico e eletrocardiograma (ECG) em 191 pares de chagásicos/não-chagásicos. No total os resultados mostraram: soropositividade de 1,83% (0,93% em autóctones e 5,01% em alóctones), positividade do xenodiagnóstico de 17,2% (12,3% em autóctones e 20,8% em alóctones) e proporção de cardiopatia chagásica crônica de 24,6% (19,1% em autóctones e 27,8% em alóctones). A análise dos dados indicou a população de alóctones como a principal responsável pelas características da infecção e morbidade da doença de Chagas na área estudada.

Constituição e transcendência: os casos dos regimes comunitários do entre-guerras

Tede de Doutoramento, na especialidade de Ciências Políticas apresentada à FDUNL

Designação dos limites : o trabalho do nome na constituição da obra de arte moderna

Dissertação de Mestrado em Comunicação Social

Blastocistose: nitazoxanida como nova opção terapêutica

Relata-se um caso de paciente com aids e imunodepressão severa que desenvolveu um quadro diarréico pela forma vacuolar do Blastocystis hominis. Utlizou-se da nitazoxanida, um 5 nitrotiazol, de amplo espectro parasitário, com remissão total da sintomatologia e erradicação da parasitose. A nitazoxanida se mostra como uma nova opção no tratamento da blastocistose em indivíduos com aids, porém estudos adicionais devem ser propostos.

The Relevance of Ribonuclease III in Pathogenic Bacteria

Dissertation presented to obtain the Ph.D degree in Biology.

Dynamic adaptation of interaction models for stateful web services

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Informática

Caracterização do papel do gene bola: consequências na motilidade bacteriana e formação de biofilmes

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Microbiologia Médica

As constantes de Orpheu na obra de Côrtes-Rodrigues

Tese apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Doutor em Estudos Portugueses/ Estudos de Literatura

Porous structures for the purification of biopharmaceuticals

This work aimed at the development of a (bio)polymeric monolithic support for biopharmaceuticals purification and/or capture. For that, it was assured that functional groups on its surface were ready to be involved in a plethora of chemical reactions for incorporation of the desired and most suitable ligand. Using cryogelation as preparation method a screening on multiple combinations of materials was performed in order to create a potentially efficient support with the minimal footprint, i.e. a monolithic support with reasonable mechanical properties, highly permeable, biocompatible, ready to use, with gravitational performance and minimal unspecific interactions towards the target molecules, but also biodegradable and produced from renewable materials. For the pre-selection all monoliths were characterized physico-chemically and morphologically; one agarose-based and two chitosan-based monoliths were then subjected to further characterizations before and after their modification with magnetic nanoparticles. These three specimens were finally tested towards adenovirus and the recovery reached 84% for the chitosan-GMA plain monolith prepared at -80°C. Monoliths based on chitosan and PVA were prepared in the presence and absence of magnetic particles, and tested for the isolation of GFP directly from crude cellular extracts. The affinity ligand A4C7 previously selected for GFP purification was synthesized on the monolith. The results indicated that the solid-phase synthesis of the ligand directly onto the monolith might require optimization and that the large pores of the monoliths are unsuitable for the purification of small proteins, such as GFP.

Prevalence of Epstein-Barr virus antibodies in healthy children and adolescents in Vitória, State of Espírito Santo, Brazil

The prevalence and age distribution of Epstein-Barr virus infection varies in different populations and there is little information about the epidemiology of this infection in Brazil. We studied the prevalence of EBV antibodies in a sample of 283 children and adolescents between 1 and 21 years old. The sample was taken from two neighborhoods in Vitória (capital city of Espirito Santo, Brazil). The São Pedro (SP) neighborhood represented an area with lower socioeconomic status and the Praias (P) neighborhood represented an area with higher SES. Anti-VCA (Virus Capsid Antigen) antibodies were detected by ELISA and anti-EBNA (Epstein-Barr Nuclear Antigen) antibodies were detected by an anti-complement immunofluorescence method, both using commercial kits. The results showed an overall prevalence rates of anti-VCA and anti-EBNA of 71% and 54% respectively. The prevalence for both anti-EBV antibodies was higher and probably the infection occurred earlier in the SP neighborhood. Among the various socioeconomic factors studied only low family income and maternal education level were significantly correlated with a higher frequency of positive serology for anti-VCA. These results demonstrate that there is a high prevalence of EBV antibodies in children and adolescents living in Vitória, that occurs more frequently at a younger age in children from families with low socioeconomic status. In addition, the results demonstrate an intermediate age distribution pattern between those reported in developed and underdeveloped countries.

Controlling gene expression in enterobacteriaceae: studies on sRNAs and strategies for synthetic biology

Dissertation presented to obtain the Master Degree in Molecular, Genetics and Biomedicine

Evaluation and optimization of a session-based middleware for data management

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Informática

Comunicação, Media e Deliberação: O Público e a Crise Iraquiana

Tese apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Doutor em Ciências da Comunicação, Comunicação e Ciências Sociais