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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas (ICB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Leandro Buffoni Roque da Silva in research grants and scholarships supported by FAPESP.
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The group of systemic mycoses, including paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM), cryptococcosis and histoplasmosis, among others, caused death in 3,583 individuals between 1996-2006 in Brazil. Paracoccidioidomycosis was the most important with approximately 51.2% of cases followed by histoplasmosis with 4.8% in non-HIV patients. Considering AIDS as the underlying cause of death and endemic systemic…
Paracoccidiodomycosis (PCM), a prevailing systemic mycosis in Latin America, is a granulomatous disease caused by the thermo-dimorphic fungus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis. In Brazil, PMC is ranked as the tenth cause of death among the chronic infectious and parasitic diseases. Dendritic cells are the most efficient antigen presenting cells. When used as adjuvant these cells are at lea…
Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is one of the most important systemic mycoses caused by the thermally dimorphic fungus Paracoccidioides spp. comparing other diseases like North American Blastomycosis, Histoplasmosis and, Coccidioidomycosis. The fungus of genus Paracoccidioides is usually found in the south of Mexico, Central and South America. The more common countries that it is found are B…
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