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Pedro Augusto Alves
Researcher at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Publications - 40
Citations - 686
Pedro Augusto Alves is an academic researcher from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Virus & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 30 publications receiving 441 citations. Previous affiliations of Pedro Augusto Alves include Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais & State University of Norte Fluminense.
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Early use of nitazoxanide in mild Covid-19 disease: randomised, placebo-controlled trial.
Patricia R. M. Rocco,Pedro L. Silva,Fernanda F. Cruz,Marco Antonio C. M. Junior,Paulo Fernando Guimarães Morando Marzocchi Tierno,Marcos de Assis Moura,Luis Frederico Gerbase De Oliveira,Cristiano Cleidson Lima,Ezequiel Aparecido Dos Santos,Walter Freitas Junior,Ana Paula Salles Moura Fernandes,Kleber G. Franchini,Erick Magri,Nara Franzin de Moraes,Jose Mario de Jesus Goncalves,Melanie Nogueira Carbonieri,Ivonise Sampaio Dos Santos,Natalia de Fatima Paes,Paula Veronica Martini Maciel,Raissa Prado Rocha,Alex Fiorini de Carvalho,Pedro Augusto Alves,José Luiz Proença Modena,Artur T. Cordeiro,Daniela Barreto Barbose Trivella,Rafael Elias Marques,Ronir Raggio Luiz,Paolo Pelosi,José Roberto Lapa e Silva +28 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, adult patients presenting up to 3 days after onset of Covid-19 symptoms (dry cough, fever, and fatigue) were enrolled.
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Early use of nitazoxanide in mild Covid-19 disease: randomized, placebo-controlled trial
Patricia R. M. Rocco,Pedro L. Silva,Fernanda F. Cruz,Marco Antonio C. M. Junior,Paulo Fernando Guimarães Morando Marzocchi Tierno,Marcos de Assis Moura,Luis Frederico Gerbase De Oliveira,Cristiano Cleidson Lima,Ezequiel Aparecido Dos Santos,Walter Freitas Junior,Ana Paula Morais Fernandes,Kleber G. Franchini,Erick Magri,Nara Franzin de Moraes,Jose Mario de Jesus Goncalves,Melanie Nogueira Carbonieri,Ivonise Sampaio Dos Santos,Natalia de Fatima Paes,Paula Veronica Martini Maciel,Raissa Prado Rocha,Alex Fiorini de Carvalho,Pedro Augusto Alves,José Luiz Proença Modena,Artur T. Cordeiro,Daniela B. B. Trivella,Rafael Elias Marques,Ronir Raggio Luiz,Paolo Pelosi,José Roberto Lapa e Silva +28 more
TL;DR: In patients with mild Covid-19, symptom resolution did not differ between the nitazoxanide and placebo groups after 5 days of therapy, however, early nitaz oxanide therapy was safe and reduced viral load significantly.
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Persistence of Yellow fever virus outside the Amazon Basin, causing epidemics in Southeast Brazil, from 2016 to 2018.
Izabela Maurício de Rezende,Lívia Sacchetto,Érica Munhoz de Mello,Pedro Augusto Alves,Felipe Campos de Melo Iani,Talita Émile Ribeiro Adelino,Myrian Morato Duarte,Ana Luisa Furtado Cury,André Felipe Leal Bernardes,Tayrine Araujo Santos,Leonardo Soares Pereira,Maria Rita Teixeira Dutra,Dario Brock Ramalho,Benoit de Thoisy,Erna Geessien Kroon,Giliane de Souza Trindade,Betânia Paiva Drumond +16 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the origin of the YFV responsible for the recent epidemics, and obtained nucleotide sequences of YFVs detected in humans and non-human primates (NHPs) from Minas Gerais state during 2017-2018.
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Assessing the variability of Brazilian Vaccinia virus isolates from a horse exanthematic lesion: coinfection with distinct viruses
Rafael K. Campos,Mário Celso Sperotto Brum,Carlos Eduardo Wayne Nogueira,Betânia Paiva Drumond,Pedro Augusto Alves,Larissa Siqueira-Lima,Felipe L. Assis,Giliane de Souza Trindade,Cláudio A. Bonjardim,Paulo César Peregrino Ferreira,Rudi Weiblen,Eduardo Furtado Flores,Erna Geessien Kroon,Jônatas Santos Abrahão +13 more
TL;DR: Despite being isolated from the same exanthematic clinical sample, P1V and P2V showed differences in their plaque phenotype and in one-step growth curves, andSequencing and phylogenetic analysis of four different genes demonstrated that the isolate are segregated in different VACV clusters.
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Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA on public surfaces in a densely populated urban area of Brazil: A potential tool for monitoring the circulation of infected patients.
Jônatas Santos Abrahão,Lívia Sacchetto,Izabela Maurício de Rezende,Rodrigo Araújo Lima Rodrigues,Ana Paula Correia Crispim,César Moura,Diogo Correia Mendonça,Erik Reis,Fernanda S. H. Souza,Gabriela Fernanda Garcia Oliveira,Iago José da Silva Domingos,Paulo Victor de Miranda Boratto,Pedro Henrique Bastos e Silva,Victoria Fulgêncio Queiroz,Talita Bastos Machado,Luis Adan Flores Andrade,Karine Lima Lourenço,Thaís Almeida M. Silva,Graziele Pereira Oliveira,Viviane de Souza Alves,Pedro Augusto Alves,Erna Geessien Kroon,Giliane de Souza Trindade,Betânia Paiva Drumond +23 more
TL;DR: The data indicated the contamination of public surfaces by SARS-CoV-2, suggesting the circulation of infected patients and the risk of infection for the population.