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Leonardo J. Galvão-Lima
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Open AccessDevelopment of technologies to support the diagnosis of infectious diseases and cancer to support the primary health care
Primary Health Care (PHC) is the coordinator of health care in Brazil and needs to be strengthened in the diagnostic field to increase health care quality. Aiming to improve the diagnostic tools currently avai...
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Open AccessData-driven computational intelligence applied to dengue outbreak forecasting: a case study at the scale of the city of Natal, RN-Brazil
Dengue is recognized as a health problem that causes significant socioeconomic impacts throughout the world, affecting millions of people each year. A commonly used method for monitoring the dengue vector is t...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Stochastic Petri net model describing the relationship between reported maternal and congenital syphilis cases in Brazil
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Open AccessStochastic Petri net model describing the relationship between reported maternal and congenital syphilis cases in Brazil
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum. In 2016, it was declared an epidemic in Brazil due to its high morbidity and mortality rates, mainly in cases ...
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Open AccessmiRNAs as biomarkers for early cancer detection and their application in the development of new diagnostic tools
Over the last decades, microRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as important molecules associated with the regulation of gene expression in humans and other organisms, expanding the strategies available to diagnose and...
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Open AccessEpigenetic alterations are associated with monocyte immune dysfunctions in HIV-1 infection
Monocytes are key cells in the immune dysregulation observed during human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. The events that take place specifically in monocytes may contribute to the systemic immune dysf...
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HIV infection: focus on the innate immune cells
Innate immune cells play a critical role during the onset of HIV infection and remain active until the final events that characterize AIDS. The viral impact on innate immune cell response may be a result of di...
