Publications by authors named "M P Maruza"
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- The article studies community health agents' (CHAs) understanding and behavior towards tuberculosis in Recife, Brazil, where the disease is prevalent and treatment dropout rates are high.
- A survey was conducted with 385 CHAs, revealing that most participants were women over 40 who had been in their roles for over nine years.
- The findings show that 61.7% of CHAs had good knowledge about tuberculosis, which positively influenced their practices, highlighting the need for better training to improve public health outcomes.
Post-transcriptional regulatory elements associated with transcript degradation or transcript instability have been described at the 3' untranslated region (3'UTR) of the HLA-G gene. Considering that HPV infection and aneuploidy, which causes gene instability, are associated with cervical cell malignancy, as well as the fact that HIV infection and HLA-G may modulate the immune response, the present study aimed to compare the frequencies of HLA-G 3'UTR polymorphic sites (14-base pair insertion/deletion, +3142C/G, and +3187A/G) between 226 HIV+ women co-infected (n = 82) or not with HPV (n = 144) and 138 healthy women. We also evaluated the relationship between those HLA-G 3'UTR variants and aneuploidy in cervical cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Tuberculosis is a serious public health problem worldwide. It is the leading cause of death amongst people living with HIV, and default from tuberculosis (TB) treatment in people living with HIV increases the probability of death. The aim of this study was to estimate the survival probability of people living with HIV who default treatment for TB compared to those who complete the treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe conducted a survival analysis with competing risks to estimate the mortality rate and predictive factors for immunodeficiency-related death in people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH) in northeast Brazil. A cohort with 2372 PLWH was enrolled between July 2007 and June 2010 and monitored until 31 December 2012 at two healthcare centres. The event of interest was immunodeficiency-related death, which was defined based on the Coding Causes of Death in HIV Protocol (CoDe).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMokgacha K, Maruza MP, Sesay SO, Rwegerera GM. Cavernous sinus thrombosis in a 14-year old boy. Turk J Pediatr 2017; 59: 719-723.
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