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Maria Lúcia Duarte Pereira
Researcher at State University of Ceará
Publications - 136
Citations - 1097
Maria Lúcia Duarte Pereira is an academic researcher from State University of Ceará. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Population. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 106 publications receiving 848 citations. Previous affiliations of Maria Lúcia Duarte Pereira include University of Fortaleza & Royal Free Hospital.
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Família em situação de vulnerabilidade social: uma questão de políticas públicas
TL;DR: In this article, an exploratorio of a coleta de dados is presented, with the goal of apontar a vulnerabilidade da familia pobre que, desassistida pelas politicas publicas, se ve impossibilitada de responder as necessidades basicas de seus membros, and de favorecer o aprofundamento do debate acerca da construcao de alternativas for o fortalecimento da family.
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Mortality and survival of COVID-19.
George Jó Bezerra Sousa,Thiago Santos Garces,Virna Ribeiro Feitosa Cestari,Raquel Sampaio Florêncio,Thereza Maria Magalhães Moreira,Maria Lúcia Duarte Pereira +5 more
TL;DR: Mortality by COVID-19 in Ceará is similar to countries with a large number of cases of the disease, although deaths occur later, and elderly people and comorbidities presented a greater risk of death.
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Cryptosporidial and Microsporidial Infections in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Patients in Northeastern Brazil
Tadesse Wuhib,Terezinha M. J. Silva,Robert D. Newman,Lynne S. Garcia,Maria Lúcia Duarte Pereira,Cristina de Souza Chaves,S P Wahlquist,Ralph T. Bryan,Richard L. Guerrant,Anastacio de Queiroz Sousa,Telma Régia Bezerra Sales de Queiroz,Cynthia L. Sears +11 more
TL;DR: C. parvum and microsporidia are the most common intestinal parasites associated with diarrhea in an HIV-infected population in Brazil and are associated with advanced HIV disease.
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The prevalence of Toxocara canis ova in soil samples from parks and gardens in the London area
TL;DR: positive samples were commonly found in lawns, playing fields and children's play areas, and the authors believe that this may constitute a significant health risk, particularly to children.
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Use of fluoxetine for treatment of Machado-Joseph disease: an open-label study.
Thais Lampert Monte,Carlos Roberto de Mello Rieder,Adriano B. L. Tort,I. Rockenback,Maria Lúcia Duarte Pereira,Isabel Silveira,Anabela Ferro,Jorge Sequeiros,Laura Bannach Jardim +8 more
TL;DR: Context – Machado‐Joseph Disease (MJD/SCA3) is an autosomal dominant spinocerebellar degeneration that evolves to disability and death and experimental data have shown that serotonin is an important cerebellar neurotransmitter and that impairment of the serotoninergic Cerebellar system can induce cerebellary ataxia.