Interleukin-10 (IL-10) is a cytokine that plays an important role in the regulation of the immune system. Gene polymorphisms of IL-10 have been associated with the different expression levels of this cytokine. In hepatitis ...

Os diagnósticos comunitários de saúde são essenciais para o conhecimento de indicadores locais de saúde, avaliação de programas e implementação de ações em saúde. Em meados de 2002, realizou-se diagnóstico de saúde ...

O objetivo foi estudar a cobertura vacinal e fatores associados na vacinação contra a gripe pandêmica de 2010 em gestantes brasileiras. Realizou-se um estudo transversal com mulheres que deram à luz em um município do ...

Objetivo: Apresentar evidências sobre a segurança da nebulização com 3 a 5 ml de adrenalina (1:1000) no tratamento das crianças com obstrução inflamatória aguda das vias aéreas. Fontes de dados: Uma busca eletrônica foi ...

Modelo do estudo: Transversal. Objetivo do estudo: Determinar a prevalência e os genótipos do HPV em mulheres atendidas em um Hospital Universitário no Sul do Brasil. Metodologia: Foram coletadas amostras de secreções ...

Foi realizado um estudo retrospectivo, baseado no banco de dados eletrônico de um hospital universitário, com objetivo de investigar a prevalência dos germes causadores e suas suscetibilidades aos antibióticos em adultos ...

Esta revisão sistemática teve como objetivo investigar a associação entre fumo materno na gestação e as malformações congênitas em crianças. Uma busca eletrônica dos estudos observacionais foi realizada nas bases de ...

Este artigo tem como foco identificar os avanços, desafios e potencialidades no campo da educação jurídica brasileira. Para tal, realiza-se uma espécie de inventário intelectual das últimas produções acadêmicas deste ...

Background: Hepatitis C virus infection is a serious public health problem. Hemodialysis is considered one of the main risk factors of HCV infection, due to several invasive medical procedures and potential nosocomial ...

The Mycobacterium bovis P55 gene, located downstream from the gene that encodes the immunogenic lipoprotein P27, has been characterized. The gene was identical to the open reading frame of the Rv1410c gene in the genome ...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the leading public health problems worldwide. Declared as a global emergency in 1993 by the WHO, its control is hampered by the emergence of multidrug resistance (MDR), defined as resistance ...

The present study was aimed at observing the diuretic and natriuretic responses after a water load (2% body weight) in four groups of young consenting volunteers submitted previously, during three days, to a hypersodie ...

PURPOSE: To study the lesions in the lung of rabbits caused by ischemia/reperfusion hepatic (I/R) after the use of N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC). METHODS: Twenty-four rabbits distributed in two groups: control group GI (n = 12) ...

Objective. To describe the worldwide prevalence of physical inactivity and to analyze its association with development level of each country. Methods. Pooled analysis of three multicenter studies, conducted between 2002 ...

Birth weight has been inversely associated with later blood pressure. Firstborns tend to have lower birth weight than their later-born peers, but the long-term consequences remain unclear. The study objective was to ...

Socioeconomic status (SES) has been shown to be an important contributor to lung function. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between lung function in adolescence and (a) SES at birth; (b) SES in ...

Visceral toxocariasis is a serious public health problem with a cosmopolitan distribution. Children are susceptible due to their immature immune system and high risks of infection. Nevertheless, the few completed studies ...

Genotyping tools have been widely used to study the occurrence of outbreaks and to identify the patterns of transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains. The clonal diversity of 65 clinical isolates of M. tuberculosis ...

The present study was carried out to investigate the presence of polymorphism in the N-acetyltransferase gene of 41 clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, that were resistant to isoniazid (INH) with no mutations ...