Matheus Melo Pithon; Rogério Lacerda dos Santos; Carla D’Agostini Derech; Carlos Nelson Elias; Antônio Carlos de Oliveira Ruellas; Lincoln Issamu Nojima DDS, Specialist in Orthodontics, Dental School, Federal University of Alfenas, Brazil; Student of the Doctor’s Degree Program in Orthodontics, Dental School, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. DDS, Student of the Master’s Degree Prog...

OBJECTIVE To assess the feasibility of HIV rapid testing for pregnant women at maternity hospital admission and of subsequent interventions to reduce perinatal HIV transmission. METHODS Study based on a convenience sample of women unaware of their HIV serostatus when they were admitted to delivery in public maternity hospitals in Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre, Brazil, between March 2000 and...

Ludmilla da Silva Viana Jacobson1 Carla Lourenço Tavares de Andrade2 Cleber Nascimento do Carmo1 Dennys de Souza Mourão1 Sandra de Souza Hacon1 1 Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health, Department of Endemic Diseases, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2 Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health, Department of Health Administration and Plannin...

Alexis R. Hernández,1, 2 Carlos Gracia-Lázaro,2 Edgardo Brigatti,1 and Yamir Moreno2, 3, 4 Instituto de Fı́sica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain Department of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain ISI Foundation, ...

Joao J. F. SARKIS,* Jorge A. GUIMARAESt and Jose M. C. RIBEIRO$ *Department of Biochemistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Instituto de Biosciencias, 90.000 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, tDepartment of Biochemistry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Centro de Ciencias da Saude, Bloco H, 21.910 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, and $Department of Tropical Public Health, Harvard School of Pu...

The protein profiles of the New Guinea "C" dengue virus type 2 (DENV-2)prototype and those of a Brazilian DENV-2 isolated in the State of Rio de Janeiro in 1995 were compared. SDS-PAGE analysis showed that the virus from Rio de Janeiro expresses NS5 (93.0 kDa), NS3 (66.8 kDa) E (62.4 kDa) and NS1 (41.2 kDa) proteins differently from the New Guinea "C" virus. The immunoblot revealed specificity ...

From the Laboratory of Developmental Biology and Anomalies, National Institute of Dental Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20205; Transplantation Research Branch, Casualty Care Research Program Center, Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20814; Instituto de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Ilha do Funddo, Rio de Janeiro 21910, Bra...

R. Mondaini,1,2 T. Paiva,3 and R. T. Scalettar2 1Physics Department, The Pennsylvania State University, 104 Davey Laboratory, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA 2Physics Department, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA 3Instituto de Fı́sica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Cx.P. 68.528, 21941-972 Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil (Received 14 August 2014; published 14 Octo...

1. Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói (RJ) Brasil. 2. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (RJ) Brasil. 3. Laboratório de Pesquisa em Imagens Médicas, Pavilhão Pereira Filho, Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre (RS) Brasil. 4. Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre (RS) Brasil. 5. Faculdade de Medicina de Petrópolis, ...

1 Post-graduate program, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. 2 Post-graduate program, Escola Paulista de Medicina da Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo (SP), Brazil. 3 Study Group on Tomography and Biomechanics of the Cornea of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. 4 Faculdade de Medicina da Escola Superior de Ciências da Santa Casa de Miser...