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Silvia Figueiredo Costa
Researcher at University of São Paulo
Publications - 249
Citations - 7104
Silvia Figueiredo Costa is an academic researcher from University of São Paulo. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Internal medicine. The author has an hindex of 39, co-authored 200 publications receiving 5833 citations. Previous affiliations of Silvia Figueiredo Costa include State University of Campinas & Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho.
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Intravenous Colistin as Therapy for Nosocomial Infections Caused by Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii
Anna S. Levin,Antonio Alci Barone,Juliana Penço,Marcio Vieira Santos,I S Marinho,E A G Arruda,Edison I. Manrique,Silvia Figueiredo Costa +7 more
TL;DR: Colistin may be a good therapeutic option for the treatment of severe infections caused by multidrug-resistant P. aeruginosa and A. baumannii.
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Fusarium Infection in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients
Marcio Nucci,Kieren A. Marr,Kieren A. Marr,Flavio Queiroz-Telles,Carlos A. Martins,Plínio Trabasso,Silvia Figueiredo Costa,Júlio César Voltarelli,Arnaldo Lopes Colombo,Alexander Imhof,Ricardo Pasquini,Angelo Maiolino,A. Souza Cármino,Elias Anaissie +13 more
TL;DR: Persistent neutropenia was the single prognostic factor for death identified by multivariate analysis in hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients.
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Evolution and epidemic spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Brazil.
Darlan da Silva Candido,Darlan da Silva Candido,Ingra Morales Claro,Jaqueline Goes de Jesus,William Marciel de Souza,Filipe R. R. Moreira,Simon Dellicour,Simon Dellicour,Thomas A. Mellan,Louis du Plessis,Rafael Henrique Moraes Pereira,Flavia C. S. Sales,Erika R. Manuli,Julien Thézé,Luiz Carlos de Almeida,Mariane Talon de Menezes,Carolina M. Voloch,Marcílio Jorge Fumagalli,Thais M. Coletti,Camila A. M. Silva,Mariana S. Ramundo,Mariene R. Amorim,Henrique Hoeltgebaum,Swapnil Mishra,Mandev S. Gill,Luiz Max Carvalho,Lewis F Buss,Carlos A. Prete,Jordan Ashworth,Helder I. Nakaya,Pedro S. Peixoto,Oliver J. Brady,Samuel M. Nicholls,Amilcar Tanuri,Átila Duque Rossi,Carlos Kaue Vieira Braga,Alexandra L. Gerber,Ana Paula de C Guimarães,Nelson Gaburo,Cecila Salete Alencar,Alessandro C. S. Ferreira,Cristiano Xavier Lima,José Eduardo Levi,Celso Francisco Hernandes Granato,Giulia M. Ferreira,Ronaldo da Silva Francisco,Fabiana Granja,Fabiana Granja,Márcia Teixeira Garcia,Maria Luiza Moretti,Mauricio W. Perroud,Terezinha M. P. P. Castineiras,Carolina S. Lazari,Sarah C. Hill,Sarah C. Hill,Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos,Camila L. Simeoni,Julia Forato,Andrei C. Sposito,Angelica Zaninelli Schreiber,Magnun N. N. Santos,Camila Zolini de Sá,Renan P. Souza,Luciana C. Resende-Moreira,Mauro M. Teixeira,Josy Hubner,Patricia Asfora Falabella Leme,Rennan G. Moreira,Maurício Lacerda Nogueira,Neil M. Ferguson,Silvia Figueiredo Costa,José Luiz Proença-Módena,Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos,Samir Bhatt,Philippe Lemey,Chieh-Hsi Wu,Andrew Rambaut,Nicholas J. Loman,Renato Santana Aguiar,Oliver G. Pybus,Ester Cerdeira Sabino,Ester Cerdeira Sabino,Ester Cerdeira Sabino,Nuno R. Faria,Nuno R. Faria,Nuno R. Faria +85 more
TL;DR: New light is shed on the epidemic transmission and evolutionary trajectories of SARS-CoV-2 lineages in Brazil and evidence that current interventions remain insufficient to keep virus transmission under control in this country is provided.
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Candida colonisation as a source for candidaemia.
L.N. Miranda,I.M. van der Heijden,Silvia Figueiredo Costa,A.P.I. Sousa,R.A. Sienra,S. Gobara,C.R. Santos,Renata D. Lobo,V.P. Pessoa,Anna S. Levin +9 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that gastrointestinal colonisation is the probable source of C. albicans candidaemia and C. parapsilosis, both of which are found in patients with positive blood culture for candida.
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Candida parapsilosis fungemia associated with implantable and semi-implantable central venous catheters and the hands of healthcare workers.
Anna S. Levin,Silvia Figueiredo Costa,N S Mussi,M. Basso,S I Sinto,Clarisse Martins Machado,D.C Geiger,M.C.B Villares,Angelica Zaninelli Schreiber,Antonio Alci Barone,Maria Luiza Moretti Branchini +10 more
TL;DR: The results indicated the occurrence of an outbreak C. parapsilosis fungemia related to long-term central venous catheters in which the hands of HCWs were implicated and the amount of slime production might be associated with the pathogenicity of the strains.