Armando Alves (1935-1999)

Limnol. Oceanogr., 44(8), 1999, 1928–1935

Scaled chrysophytes and planktonic diatoms are used to infer changes in lake water pH, specific conductivity, trophic score, and total nitrogen in 23 Connecticut waterbodies over the last 100 yr, and the changes are correlated with quantified changes in land use in the surrounding watersheds. In general, there was good agreement between the changes inferred from both organismal groups in this s...

Armando E

Primary lung cancer remains a leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States and most Western countries, with mortality rates exceeding the rates of breast, colon and prostate cancers combined. Only a minority of patients with lung cancer can be offered potentially curative treatment and only half of those will actually be cured. Clearly there is a need to reduce mortality a...

Polymorphism in Bordetella pertussis pertactin and pertussis toxin virulence factors in the United States, 1935-1999.

To elucidate the potential role of the etiologic agent in recent increases of pertussis incidence in the United States, we studied the polymorphism in pertactin and pertussis toxin, which are Bordetella pertussis proteins important for pathogenesis and immunity. We sequenced regions of their genes (prn and ptx) in 152 B. pertussis strains isolated from 1935 through 1999 and identified 2 prn seq...

Lisboa CARVALHO , Carlos Alberto Paes ALVES , Marco

Objective: To compare the results obtained from two distinct surgical approaches in patients undergoing surgical correction of an atrial septal defect (ASD). Method: The study series consisted of 20 patients, with a mean age of 24.1 ± 14.2 years, distributed in two groups. In group A, 10 patients (80% female, with a mean age of 20.9 ± 12.0 years) underwent surgical correction of ASD through a c...

Prognosis. Volume I. 1935