Background: There has been concern about declining routine vaccination rates during the
COVID-19 pandemic. We evaluated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on early childhood …

Background: Effective community-based antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) are
needed because 90% of antimicrobials are prescribed in the community. A primary care ASP (…

Purpose The aim of this study was to determine the factors associated with temporomandibular
disorders (TMD) in the non-institutionalized and institutionalized elderly population of …

Objective: to identify the social representations of type 2 Diabetes Mellitus patients on the
effect of an educational intervention to guide the adoption of healthy habits. Method: This was …

Background & aims Hand Grip Strength (HGS) has been proposed as an indicator of nutritional
status, being an easy and non-invasive method and presenting high reliability among …

… by a psychologist, who was a specialist and professor of the psychology course at the State
University of Feira de Santana at the time of the study (MOM). … Nelia de Medeiros Sampaio …

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) currently represents an epidemic worldwide. NAFLD
is the most frequently diagnosed chronic liver disease, affecting 20–30% of the general …

Global genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 has identified variants associated with
increased transmissibility, neutralization resistance and disease severity. Here we report the …

SARS-CoV-2 variants of interest have been associated with increased transmissibility,
neutralization resistance and disease severity. Ongoing SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance world-…

In this work, Bragg gratings were used to monitor, in real time, the temperature during the
diamond deposition process obtained by hot filament chemical vapor deposition (HFCVD). …