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Covid can remain active in some people for over 7 months : Study
Publicado em 28 janeiro 2022
A team of international researchers have found that the novel coronavirus can continue to be present in some human bodies upto 232 days.Researchers from France's Pasteur Institute, the University of Sao Paulo (USP) and Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Brazil conducted a study involving 38 Brazilian patients.The patients were followed until they tested negative twice or three times consecutively by RT-PCR.Of the 38 cases tracked, two men and a woman were atypical in the sense that the [...]
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Covid-19 can infect, replicate in salivary gland cells
Publicado em 07 julho 2021Brazilian researchers have found that tissues which specialise in saliva production and secretion can serve as reservoirs for SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing Covid-19, magnifying its infectious potential.Researchers at the University of Sao Paulo (USP) analysed samples from three types of salivary gland obtained during a minimally invasive autopsy procedure performed on 24 patients who died from complications of Covid-19 and discovered that SARS-CoV-2 infects and replicates in the salivary [...]ver notícia -
Alzheimer's 3X raises Covid severity, death risk: Study
Publicado em 04 junho 2021People with dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease are at threefold risk of dying as a result of infection by SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind Covid-19, according to a study by Brazilian researchers. The risk is six times greater if they are over 80, found the team at the University of Sao Paulo (USP) and Butantan Institute in partnership with colleagues at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). "We found that all causes of dementia are risk factors for severity and death in [...]ver notícia -
High Vitamin D dose fails to help Covid patients recover
Publicado em 24 abril 2021Sao Paulo , 24 Apr 2021 - Scientists now report that a high dose of vitamin D administered on admission to hospital has failed to improve the condition of patients with moderate or severe Covid-19.A clinical trial was conducted in Brazil with 240 patients who were given 200,000 IU of vitamin D3 on admission to hospital. The supplementation did not reduce length of stay or affect the proportion requiring intensive, according to the study published in the Journal of the American Medical [...]ver notícia -
Lung ultrasound may help predict Covid patient outcomes
Publicado em 11 fevereiro 2021Lung ultrasound, considered a simple method for diagnosing lung disease, can also help predict the clinical progression of severe Covid-19 patients, a new study suggests.The study, published in the journal Annals of Intensive Care, showed that the higher the lung ultrasound score, the greater the risk of admission to an intensive care unit (ICU), intubation and death. "We found lung ultrasound to be a good predictor of the need for intensive care with endotracheal intubation and the risk [...]ver notícia