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Lúcia Helena de Oliveira
Researcher at Pan American Health Organization
Publications - 94
Citations - 3707
Lúcia Helena de Oliveira is an academic researcher from Pan American Health Organization. The author has contributed to research in topics: Rotavirus vaccine & Rotavirus. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 87 publications receiving 3396 citations. Previous affiliations of Lúcia Helena de Oliveira include University of Aveiro & University of Madeira.
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Intussusception Risk and Health Benefits of Rotavirus Vaccination in Mexico and Brazil
Manish M. Patel,Vesta Richardson López-Collada,Marília Mattos Bulhões,Lúcia Helena de Oliveira,Aurora Bautista Márquez,Brendan Flannery,Marcelino Esparza-Aguilar,Ernesto Isaac Montenegro Renoiner,María Edilia Luna-Cruz,Helena Keico Sato,Luz del Carmen Hernández-Hernández,Gerardo Toledo-Cortina,Magdalena Cerón-Rodríguez,Neydi Osnaya-Romero,Mario Martínez-Alcazar,Rocío Gabriela Aguinaga-Villasenor,Arturo Plascencia-Hernández,Francisco Fojaco-González,Guillermo Hernández-Peredo Rezk,Sixto Fortino Gutierrez-Ramírez,Roberto Dorame-Castillo,Rogelio Tinajero-Pizano,Bernice Mercado-Villegas,Marilia Reichelt Barbosa,Eliane Mara Cesário Maluf,Lucimar Bozza Ferreira,Francisca Maria de Carvalho,Ana Rosa dos Santos,Eduardo Dolabella Cesar,Maria Elisa Paula de Oliveira,Carmem Lúcia Osterno Silva,Maria de Los Angeles Cortes,Cuauhtémoc Ruiz Matus,Jacqueline E. Tate,Paul Gargiullo,Umesh D. Parashar +35 more
TL;DR: RV1 was associated with a short-term risk of intussusception in approximately 1 of every 51,000 to 68,000 vaccinated infants and prevented approximately 80,000 hospitalizations and 1300 deaths from diarrhea each year in these two countries.
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Association between pentavalent rotavirus vaccine and severe rotavirus diarrhea among children in Nicaragua.
Manish M. Patel,Cristina Pedreira,Lúcia Helena de Oliveira,Jacqueline E. Tate,Maribel Orozco,Juan Carlos Mercado,Alcides Gonzalez,Omar Malespin,Juan José Amador,Jazmina Umaña,Angel Balmaseda,Maria Celina Perez,Jon R. Gentsch,Tara Kerin,Jennifer J. Hull,Slavica Mijatovic,Jon Kim Andrus,Umesh D. Parashar +17 more
TL;DR: Vaccination with RV5 was associated with a lower risk of severe rotavirus diarrhea in children younger than 2 years in Nicaragua but to a lesser extent than that seen in clinical trials in industrialized countries.
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Decline in Diarrhea Mortality and Admissions after Routine Childhood Rotavirus Immunization in Brazil: A Time-Series Analysis
Greice Madeleine Ikeda do Carmo,Catherine Yen,Catherine Yen,Jennifer E. Cortes,Jennifer E. Cortes,Alessandra A. Siqueira,Wanderson Kleber de Oliveira,Juan José Cortez-Escalante,Ben Lopman,Brendan Flannery,Lúcia Helena de Oliveira,Eduardo Hage Carmo,Manish M. Patel +12 more
TL;DR: A time series analysis shows that the introduction of rotavirus vaccination in Brazil is associated with reduced diarrhea-related deaths and hospital admissions in children under 5 years of age.
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Novel transparent nanocomposite films based on chitosan and bacterial cellulose
Susana C. M. Fernandes,Susana C. M. Fernandes,Lúcia Helena de Oliveira,Carmen S. R. Freire,Armando J. D. Silvestre,Carlos Pascoal Neto,Alessandro Gandini,Jacques Desbrières +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a water-based suspension of chitosan and bacterial cellulose nanofibrils was used to construct transparent, flexible and flexible nanocomposite materials.
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Effectiveness of ten-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine against invasive pneumococcal disease in Brazil: a matched case-control study
Carla Magda Allan Santos Domingues,Jennifer R. Verani,Ernesto Issac Montenegro Renoiner,Maria Cristina de Cunto Brandileone,Brendan Flannery,Lúcia Helena de Oliveira,João Barberino Santos,José Cássio de Moraes +7 more
TL;DR: In the routine immunisation programme in Brazil, PCV10 prevents invasive disease caused by vaccine serotypes and might provide cross-protection against some vaccine-related serotypes.