Norma Lucena-Silva

Frequency and types of human papillomavirus among pregnant and non-pregnant women with human immunodeficiency virus infection in Recife determined by genotyping (2009)

Lacerda, Heloisa Ramos, Lucena-Silva, Norma

Women with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection present a higher risk of infection by the human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer. To determine HPV genotypes and frequencies among...

Genetic characterization of morphologically variant strains of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis   (2008)

Borba, Cintia De Moraes, Correia, Janaina, Vinhas, Ester, Martins, Albert, Alves, Beatriz Costa Aguiar, Unkles, Sheila, ...

Molecular characterization of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis   variant strains that had been preserved under mineral oil for decades was carried out by random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis...

Factors associated with treatment failure, dropout, and death in a cohort of tuberculosis patients in Recife, Pernambuco State, Brazil (2007)

Lucena-Silva,Norma, Souza,Wayner Vieira De, Dantas,Andréa Tavares, Dantas,Odimariles Maria Souza, ...

A cohort of cases initiating tuberculosis treatment from May 2001 to July 2003 was followed in Recife, Pernambuco State, Brazil, to investigate biological, clinical, social, lifestyle, and healthcare...

Assessment of a DNA vaccine encoding an anchored-glycosylphosphatidylinositol tegumental antigen complexed to protamine sulphate on immunoprotection against murine schistosomiasis (2007)

Nascimento, Eduardo JM, Amorim, Rosa V, Cavalcanti, André, Alves, Veruska F, Nakazawa, Mineo, Pereira, Valéria RA, ...

Protamine sulphate/DNA complexes have been shown to protect DNA from DNase digestion in a lipid system for gene transfer. A DNA-based vaccine complexed to protamine sulphate was used to induce an...

Evidência de alterações de permeabilidade vascular na dengue: quando a dosagem de albumina sérica define o quadro? (2007)

Brito,Carlos A.A., Lucena-Silva,Norma

Evidência de extravasamento vascular decorrente do aumento da permeabilidade capilar caracteriza e diferencia febre hemorrágica da dengue. Este artigo avalia o valor de albumina sérica na...

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis in classic dengue (2007)

Brito,Carlos A.A., Sobreira,Silvana, Cordeiro,Marli Tenório, Lucena-Silva,Norma

Neurological manifestation is uncommon in dengue infection. The pathogenesis of central nervous system involvement is controversial. We report a rare case of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis in...

Assessment of a DNA vaccine encoding an anchored-glycosylphosphatidylinositol tegumental antigen complexed to protamine sulphate on immunoprotection against murine schistosomiasis (2007)

Nascimento,Eduardo JM, Amorim,Rosa V, Cavalcanti,André, Alves,Veruska F, Nakazawa,Mineo, Pereira,Valéria RA, ...

Protamine sulphate/DNA complexes have been shown to protect DNA from DNase digestion in a lipid system for gene transfer. A DNA-based vaccine complexed to protamine sulphate was used to induce an...

Echocardiographic Abnormalities and Antiphospholipid Antibodies in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (2002)

Falcão,Creso Abreu, Alves,Izabel Cristina, Chahade,Wiliam Habib, Lucena-Silva,Norma

OBJECTIVE: Lupus anticoagulant and anticardiolipin antibodies (aCL) have been associated with thrombosis, recurrent abortion, and thrombocytopenia in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE),...

RESEARCH NOTE - The Tegument of Schistosoma mansoni: Genes, Antigens and the Host-Parasite Relationship (1998)

Edneide M Xavier, Norma Lucena-Silva, Roberto P Werkhauser, Gloria R Franco, Andrew JG Simpson, ...

Cercaria, the infective larvae of Schistosoma mansoni are released from a molluscan host and must penetrate the skin of the human host within several hours in order to continue the life-cycle of the...