Publications by authors named "O Cabras"

Objectives: In COVID-19 patients, bacterial and fungal pulmonary coinfections, such as , , , or have been reported, but to our knowledge, no case has been reported due to .

Patients And Methods: We describe three cases of coinfections occurring during the 4th wave of COVID-19 in Martinique (French West Indies).

Results: All three cases were fatal; thus, has to be considered as a potentially severe coinfection agent.

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Objectives: To assess the level of knowledge about HPV in a population attending a sexual health clinic in the University Hospital of Martinique.

Methods: Cross sectional observational study based on a validated questionnaire among 500 young adults between June 2020 and March 2021. First question was "Have you ever heard of HPV?".

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The Caribbean and South American French Overseas Territories (CSAFOT) are the regions most heavily affected by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 (HIV-1) epidemic in France. Although dominated by HIV-1 subtype B, the detection of non-B subtypes and the great proportion of HIV-positive persons born abroad demonstrated the potential for local spread of non-B subtype strains in CSAFOT. To reconstruct the epidemiologic dynamics of major non-B subtype clusters spreading in CSAFOT, we conducted phylogenetic and evolutionary analyses of 2,523 HIV-1 sequences collected from patients living in Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana from 1995 to 2018.

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