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  • Animal-to-human transmission of Mycobacterium pinnipedii
    Publication . Macedo, Rita; Isidro, Joana; Gomes, Maria Conceição; Botelho, Ana; Albuquerque, Teresa; Sogorb, Arlete; Bernardino, Rui; Fernandes, Teresa Lobo; Mourato, Teresa; Durval, Mário; Gomes, João Paulo
    Extract: Mycobacterium pinnipedii, the known causative agent of tuberculosis (TB) in marine mammals, was only recognised as a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in 2003 [1] and is believed to cause TB in several species, including nonmarine mammals [2, 3] and even humans [4]. The assumption of zoonotic transmission has been strongly reinforced by a disruptive study published in 2014 by a team of archaeologists from Tübingen, Germany [5]. Based on archaeological and genomic investigations on millennial human skeletons, the authors implicated sea mammals infected with M. pinnipedii as a source of New World human TB. Considering that this phenomenon pre-dates the human migrations to South America by several centuries, they refuted the previous scientific hypothesis of TB driven by human contact [6].
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  • Monitorização da mortalidade: janeiro a dezembro de 2020
    Publication . Torres, Ana Rita; Silva, Susana; Nunes, Baltazar; Dias, Carlos Matias; Rodrigues, Ana Paula
    Este relatório tem como objetivos, descrever a evolução da mortalidade por todas as causas durante o ano de 2020 [semana 01/2020 (30 de dezembro de 2019 a 05 de janeiro de 2020) à semana 50/2020 (07 a 13 de dezembro de 2020)], bem como identificar e analisar os períodos de excesso de mortalidade por todas as causas ocorridos.
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