Publications by authors named "C M B Damasceno"
The example of an advanced practice nurse/health executive pairing up in an outpatient psychiatric department shows that pooling the missions and skills of each can help to improve the care pathway for users and provide support for teams. The success of this partnership depends on the sharing of know-how and a clear definition of each person's role and responsibilities.
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- The study investigates how human mobility influences malaria transmission in remote areas like the Amazon, aiming for effective control and elimination strategies.
- It employs a network survey using respondent-driven sampling to gather data from key informants in 45 communities across Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru, focusing on community connectivity and mobility patterns.
- The research has received ethical approval from various universities and plans to share results with the involved communities at the study's conclusion.
Objectives: Understanding human mobility's role on malaria transmission is critical to successful control and elimination. However, common approaches to measuring mobility are ill-equipped for remote regions such as the Amazon. This study develops a network survey to quantify the effect of community connectivity and mobility on malaria transmission.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe impact of sustained malaria control in the Loreto region of Peru: a retrospective, observational, spatially-varying interrupted time series analysis of the PAMAFRO program.
Lancet Reg Health Am
April 2023
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- Global investments in malaria control have shown significant success since 2000, but progress has halted, particularly in the Amazon region where the withdrawal of Global Fund support led to a resurgence of malaria.
- Researchers conducted a detailed analysis of malaria incidence in Loreto, Peru, from 2001 to 2016, factoring in environmental influences and data from health posts, to understand the impact of the PAMAFRO malaria control program.
- The analysis revealed that during PAMAFRO, malaria incidence dramatically decreased, but the program's effectiveness varied geographically, and interventions were only successful when applied more broadly across neighboring districts.
We adopted the reverse-transcriptase-loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) to detect severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) in patient samples. Two primer sets for genes N and Orf1ab were designed to detect SARS-CoV-2, and one primer set was designed to detect the human gene Actin. We collected prospective 138 nasopharyngeal swabs, 70 oropharyngeal swabs, 69 salivae, and 68 mouth saline wash samples from patients suspected to have severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) caused by SARS-CoV-2 to test the RT-LAMP in comparison with the gold standard technique reverse-transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR).
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