Publications by authors named "Fernanda Castro Gazotto"
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- COVID-19 is a highly contagious illness impacting over 200 countries, including Brazil, which has seen over 140,000 deaths, leading to ongoing debates about effective measures like social distancing and medication use.
- The study aims to assess the Brazilian population's understanding of COVID-19 to highlight their ability to identify accurate scientific information amid conflicting narratives.
- Utilizing an online survey distributed across Brazil's five geopolitical regions, researchers collected responses on COVID-19 symptoms, prevention, and management, ultimately gathering 4,180 valid entries for analysis.
Background: Ocular involvement in AIDS patients is a common event mainly caused by inflammation or infection. Despite the high prevalence rate of cryptococcosis in these individuals, ocular features have been occasionally described.
Case Report: A 20-year-old Brazilian female with HIV infection recently diagnosed was admitted with a respiratory profile presumptively diagnosed as Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia; an ophthalmologic exam suggested choroiditis by this agent as well.
Cryptococcosis by Cryptococcus gattii occurs mainly in immunocompetent hosts, however, during the last decades, a growing number of cases in immunocompromised individuals have been noticed around the world. This report presents epidemiological, clinical and outcome aspects of patients with cryptococcosis caused by this species from a non-endemic area in Brazil. Of 278 Cryptococcus spp.
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