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The Microbiologist (Reino Unido)
Em 2024: 34 notícias
Desde 1995: 62 notícias
Full ICUS and abuse of meds sparked post-pandemic outbreak of drug-resistant fungus in Brazil
Publicado em 01 dezembro 2022
Researchers in Brazil have reported the largest outbreak to date of COVID-associated candidemia caused by the same drug-resistant strain of Candida parapsilosis, a fungus that invades the bloodstream and can lead to death.
The outbreak occurred in 2020-21 in an intensive care unit (ICU) at a tertiary referral hospital in Salvador, Bahia state, during one of the peaks of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In an article published in the journal Emerging Microbes and Infections, the researchers warn of [...]
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SARS-CoV-2 alters functioning of RNA in infected cells
Publicado em 16 novembro 2022Researchers have shown that infection by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, changes the functioning of host cell RNA. Scientists at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) in Brazil arrived at this conclusion by analyzing 13 datasets obtained during four studies of viral, human and animal cell RNA. The most recent study, reported in an article published in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, examined the epitranscriptome of Vero cells (derived from [...]ver notícia