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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas (ICB) (Institutional affiliation for the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Bianca da Silva Almeida in research grants and scholarships supported by FAPESP.
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Zika fever is caused by a flavivirus, a single stranded positive RNA virus, that belongs to the Flaviviridae family. The Zika virus (ZIKV) was recently introduced in Brazil and has been associated with an expressive increase in the number of infants with microcephaly born to mothers who are believed to be infected. The viruses of this family are usually transmitted by bites of mosquitoes …
Dendritic cells (DCs) are considered the best antigen presenting cells because they have the ability to acquire different types of pathogens and present their antigens efficiently to T lymphocytes. The Laboratory of Antigen Targeting to Dendritic Cells (ICB-USP) is developing successfully strategies aimed at targeting antigens to DCs in vivo in mice. This strategy is based on the use of a…
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