CV Lattes
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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto (FMRP) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduate at Medicina from Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Uberlandia (1976), master's at Clinical Medicine from Universidade de São Paulo (1982) and ph.d. at Clinical Medicine from Universidade de São Paulo (1985). Has experience in Microbiology, focusing on Medical Microbiology, acting on the following subjects: dengue, hantavirus, hantavirose no brasil, citomegalovirose and flavivirus. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This 2-year Research Project, at a cost of R$ 196,000.00 aims to capture small mammals (wild rodents, marsupials and bats) and primates in specific locations, making their taxonomic identification and collecting clinical samples. For that, the animals will be captured in the biome of Cerrado, the animal capture areas will be multiple and in distant locations up to more than 200Km. All cap…
This thematic research project is proposed based on a central backbone of research on viruses of great importance for human health. The proposal comes from five collaborative research groups, led by established professors, and consists of subprojects distributed in four major areas of work: 1) Virus-cell interaction; 2) Pathogenesis of viral infections; 3) Diagnosis and prospection of hum…
Chikungunya (CHIKV) and Mayaro (MAYV) viruses are arboviruses that cause acute and often symptomatic infections, which are associated with fever and debilitating polyarthralgia/polyarthritis. Recently, CHIKV infections have been associated with deaths in the Americas, which about 25% of these have been reported in Fortaleza, Ceará State, Brazil. On the other hand, MAYV is another endemic …
High throughput sequencing (HTS) allowed important advances in the identification and characterization of viruses without requirement the viral isolation or propagation in cell culture system. In recent year, the costs these methods have been drastically reduced, it making that uses this method increasingly in studies of viruses with importance in human public health. Therefore, exploring…
Until 2012 there was only one report of hantavirus in bats, in which have described an isolation of a pathogenic hantavirus: Hantaan virus (HTNV) in lung tissues of bats. After this unique fact, all hantaviruses reported in bats were not related with human disease, however, there were evidences of a lethal genotype of Andes virus, the Araraquara virus (ARQV) among Neotropical bats in Braz…
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The post-doctoral fellow will work in the genomic and metagenomic study for the prospection of new viruses. He or she will also work in the management of laboratory data, bioinformatics and statistical analysis, with the graduate students involved in the project. Studies will be carried out at the Ribeirão Preto Medical School of the University of São Paulo (FMRP-USP) in Brazil.Descriptio…
Flavivirus are arboviruses of great importance for public health in Brazil, including Yellow Fever virus (YFV), the four Dengue serotypes (DENV) and Zika virus (ZIKV). ZIKV was recently introduced in the country, producing an epidemic of acute febrile illness in 2015. ZIKV has been associated with congenital disease that affects the fetal nervous system causing microcephaly in newborns. …
Bats have characteristics that favor the maintenance, evolution and dissemination of pathogens, such as the large number of species, flying ability, longevity, social habits and wide variety of eating habits. Another important characteristic of bats is the great contact with human beings, inhabiting human residences and urban centers. In recent years, more than 60 new viruses have been de…
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Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) causes acute and often symptomatic infections that are associated with fever and debilitating polyarthralgia/polyarthritis. CHIKV infection has also been associated with high lethality among elderly patients with preexisting conditions. Surprisingly, over 25% of CHIKV-related deaths in the Americas have been reported in Fortaleza city, Ceará State, Brazil. In thi…
Alphavirus and orthobunyavirus are important arboviruses causing public health problems in Brazil, producing epidemics with great economic and social impact and great economic losses. As there is no specific antiviral treatment for these viruses, medicaments are used to combat the symptoms and signs manifested by the disease in mild and moderate cases. This PhD research project proposes t…
Next-generation sequencing technologies are increasingly used in metagenomic studies. It is largely due to the high sequence data throughput capacity and unbiased approach in determining the genetic composition of a sample. The present study evaluates the applicability of the Illumina next-generation sequencing platform for viral metagenomic analysis of samples from wild rodents, opossum,…
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