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Marcus Barreto Conde
Researcher at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Publications - 63
Citations - 3103
Marcus Barreto Conde is an academic researcher from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tuberculosis & Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 63 publications receiving 2856 citations.
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Three Months of Rifapentine and Isoniazid for Latent Tuberculosis Infection
Timothy R. Sterling,M. Elsa Villarino,Andrey S. Borisov,Nong Shang,Fred M. Gordin,Erin Bliven-Sizemore,Judith Hackman,Carol Dukes Hamilton,Dick Menzies,Amy Kerrigan,Stephen E. Weis,Marc H Weiner,Diane Wing,Marcus Barreto Conde,Lorna Bozeman,C. Robert Horsburgh,Richard E. Chaisson +16 more
TL;DR: The use of rifapentine plus isoniazid for 3 months was as effective as 9 months of isoniaZid alone in preventing tuberculosis and had a higher treatment-completion rate.
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Moxifloxacin versus ethambutol in the initial treatment of tuberculosis: a double-blind, randomised, controlled phase II trial
Marcus Barreto Conde,Anne Efron,Carla Loredo,Gilvan Renato Muzy de Souza,Nadja P Graça,Michelle Cailleaux Cezar,Malathi Ram,Mohammad A Chaudhary,William R. Bishai,Afranio Lineu Kritski,Richard E. Chaisson +10 more
TL;DR: A phase II, double-blind, randomised controlled trial of a regimen that included moxifloxacin in adults with sputum smear-positive tuberculosis at one hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil found improved culture conversion in the initial phase of tuberculosis treatment.
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III Brazilian Thoracic Association Guidelines on tuberculosis.
Marcus Barreto Conde,Fernando Augusto Fiuza de Melo,Ana Maria Campos Marques,Ninarosa Calzavara Cardoso,Valéria Goes Ferreira Pinheiro,Paulo de Tarso Roth Dalcin,Almério Machado Junior,Antônio Carlos Moreira Lemos,Antonio Ruffino Netto,Betina Durovni,Clemax Couto Sant'Anna,Dinalva Soares Lima,Domenico Capone,Draurio Barreira,Eliana Dias Matos,Fernanda Carvalho de Queiroz Mello,Fernando Cezar David,Giovanni Antonio Marsico,Jorge Barros Afiune,José Roberto Lapa e Silva,Leda Fátima Jamal,Maria Alice da Silva Telles,Mario Hiroyuki Hirata,Margareth Pretti Dalcolmo,Marcelo Fouad Rabahi,Michelle Cailleaux-Cesar,Moises Palaci,Nelson Morrone,Renata Leborato Guerra,Reynaldo Dietze,Silvana Spíndola de Miranda,Solange Cavalcante,Susie Andries Nogueira,Tatiana Senna Galvão Nonato,Terezinha Martire,Vera Maria Nader Galesi,Valdério do Valle Dettoni +36 more
TL;DR: The purpose of the III Brazilian Thoracic Association (BTA) Guidelines on TB is to critically review the most recent national and international scientific information on TB, presenting an updated text with the most current and useful tools against TB to health care workers in this country.
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Yield of sputum induction in the diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis.
Marcus Barreto Conde,Angela Chindamo Loivos,Valeria M. Rezende,Sergio L. M. Soares,Fernanda Carvalho de Queiroz Mello,Arthur Reingold,Charles L. Daley,Afranio Lineu Kritski +7 more
TL;DR: The yield of sputum cultures obtained by SI is high in patients suspected of having pleural TB even in those cases with no pulmonary parenchymal abnormalities on the chest radiograph, and the yield of bacteriologic examination of the pleural biopsy tissue had the highest diagnostic yield.
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Treatment for preventing tuberculosis in children and adolescents: a randomized clinical trial of a 3-month, 12-dose regimen of a combination of rifapentine and isoniazid.
M. Elsa Villarino,Nigel A. Scott,Stephen E. Weis,Marc H Weiner,Marcus Barreto Conde,Brenda E. Jones,Sharon Nachman,Ricardo R. Oliveira,Ruth N. Moro,Nong Shang,Stefan V. Goldberg,Timothy R. Sterling +11 more
TL;DR: Treatment with the combination of rifapentine and isoniaZid was as effective as isoniazid-only treatment for the prevention of tuberculosis in children aged 2 to 17 years and was safe.