Publications by authors named "U C da Costa"
How Do People With Schizophrenia Manage Their Daily Life? A Qualitative Study.
Int J Ment Health Nurs
February 2025
Due to the rising number of long-term mental health conditions, there has been a shift in therapeutic focus from curing these conditions, to living a meaningful life with them. Self-management is described as the ability to live with the emotional, life role and medical consequences of long-term conditions such as schizophrenia. However, the perspective of people with schizophrenia on self-management in current literature is missing.
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- - The study details rare cases of skin tumors in Brazilian rainbow boas, identifying conditions similar to hemangioma and hemangioendothelioma, and examining possible links to boid inclusion body disease (BIBD).
- - Thirteen snakes exhibited the skin lesions, with a mix of introduced animals and those bred in-house; lesions emerged over eight years, but no new cases were recorded in the last five years.
- - Diagnostic tests confirmed BIBD in five snakes, alongside the presence of reptarenavirus in the tumors, suggesting a potential connection between the virus and the observed neoplastic conditions, warranting further research.
Hybrid nanocomposites combining biopolymer fibers incorporated with nanoparticles (NPs) have received increasing attention due to their remarkable characteristics. Inorganic NPs are typically chosen for their properties, such as magnetism and thermal or electrical conductivity, for example. Meanwhile, the biopolymer fiber component is a backbone, and could act as a support structure for the NPs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFand a few species of coagulase negative are frequently associated with food poisoning. Raw milk and dairy products are among the foods usually associated with outbreaks due to staphylococcal intoxication. This study aimed to determine phenotypic and genotypic antimicrobial resistance profiles to beta-lactam drugs in coagulase positive (CoPS) and negative (CoNS) isolates.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFeline leukemia virus (FeLV) is a highly debilitating cat pathogen due to its ability to cause many pathological changes. Therefore, identifying the virus directly in bone marrow can be a highly relevant diagnostic tool even in the absence of viraemia. The aim of this study was to compare the diagnostic efficiency of immunocytochemistry (ICC) of bone marrow aspirates with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
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