Air pollution and health: causal criteria in environmental epidemiology (Publications)
The evidence for the adverse health effects of today's "normal" air pollution relies heavily on epidemiologic studies. Given the major impact of these effects on environmental, economic and social pol
High glucose alters cardiomyocyte contacts and inhibits myofibrillar formation (Publications)
CONTEXT: The frequency of diabetes-related heart failure along with the prevalence of diabetes is increasing. Diabetic cardiomyopathy is considered to be a distinct disease in the absence of discernib
High prevalence of symptomatic acute HIV infection in an outpatient ward in southern Mozambique: identification and follow-up (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: To determine the prevalence of acute HIV infection (AHI) within the HIV-seronegative adult population presenting with reported fever in a district hospital in southern Mozambique and evalu
Predictors of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome-associated with kaposi sarcoma in mozambique: a prospective study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The impact and relevance of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome-associated with Kaposi sarcoma (IRIS-KS) has not been assessed in sub-Saharan African countries, where the bulk of H
Incidence of respiratory viruses among travelers with a febrile syndrome returning from tropical and subtropical areas (Publications)
Fifty million people are estimated to travel from industrial countries to the tropics annually. In spite of exhaustive studies and widely different diagnosis among returned patients, some cases of feb