Alexandre de Fátima Cobre

TL;DR: RT-PCR remains the gold standard for the diagnosis of COVID-19 in sputum samples and the combination of different diagnostic tests is highly recommended to achieve adequate sensitivity and specificity.

TL;DR: Investigation of the presence of antibiotics of different classes and associated resistant bacteria, in water samples taken from urban river waters in Curitiba, Brazil found antibiotics came from domestic effluents and may be contributing to the spread of bacterial resistance.

TL;DR: Delays in diagnosis and risk factors for death from COVID-19 were associated with male gender, age under 60 years, and patients living in regions with lower SDI, and delays superior to eight days to diagnosis increased mortality rates.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), decision trees (DT), partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA), and K nearest neighbor algorithm (KNN) models to predict positive and negative patients with COVID-19.

TL;DR: Propolis could be a source of antineoplastics and antibiotics and may reduce the occurrence of doxorubicin and gentamicin related adverse effects, resistance, or both.