37 research outputs found

    Analysis of the Seroprevalence of HIV and HIV 2 infection in women living in an area of the city of Lisbon

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    Os autores apresentam os resultados de um estudo de seroprevalência da infecção pelo HIV1 (Vírus da Imunodeficiência Humana Tipo 1) e pelo HIV2 (tipo II) em mulheres em idade fértil frequentando uma consulta de Planeamento Familiar e uma consulta de Cuidados Pré-Natais que serve uma população urbana de duas freguesias da cidade de Lisboa em que cerca de 7% é de origem Africana. Foi adoptado um protocolo de trabalho com características de estudo anónimo mas em que se previa a possibilidade da colheita de segunda amostra para confirmação de resultados (modelo non linked). Foram registados através de inquérito os elementos de ordem social e epidemiológica sendo realizado exame clínico a todas as participantes no estudo (1390). Esta fase foi seguida de colheita de amostras de sangue para estudos seroepidemiológicos relacionados com várias infecções virais incluindo o HIV e o HIV2. Foi comparada a população que compareceu (75%) com a que não compareceu á realização de análises verificando-se não haver em geral diferenças significativas entre os dois grupos no que refere a um conjunto de características epidemiológicas, sociais e clínicas. Foram considerados seropositivos para o HIV, os casos com anticorpos anti-HIV detectados por ELISA e confirmados por Western Blot revelando anticorpos contra as três proteínas (env, core e gag) e com resultados igualmente positivos pelos dois métodos em segunda amostra de sangue recolhida subsequentemente. As prevalências de infecção foram quer para o HIV quer para o 111V2 de 0.29% (total 0.58%) na população estudada, sendo a prevalência de HIV 2 de 1 .45% na população de origem Africana. Os seis casos seropositivos detectados incluíam um caso de toxicodependência, um caso de prostituição, um caso de origem Africana, não havendo nos três restantes factores de risco para além da existência de parceiros sexuais múltiplos em duas mulheres. As características clínicas, epidemiológicas e imunológicas dos casos seropositivos são descritas e discute-se a importância da prevalência encontrada. Finalmente salienta-se a relevância da análise e discussão detalhadas, antes do início de qualquer programa de rastreio da infecção pelo HIV, das vantagens, inconvenientes e limitações dos protocolos a usar no contexto da situação concreta do Centro e Comunidade em questão.A seroprevalence study of HIV 1 and HIV 2 infection in women attending a Family Planning and an Antenatal Clinic was done in an area of the City of Lisbon where 7% of the population is of African origin. The protocol of study was of non linked type although with the possibility of colecting a second sample of blood for confirmation of results. Epidemiological, social and clinical data were collected from 1390 women and this was followed by the collection of a blood sample for the seroepidemiological study of HIV 1 and HIV 2 in the population that was submited to blood tests (75%) was compared to the one that missed the test and it was found that no important differences were present between the two. The criteria for HIV1 or HIV 2 positive results were the presence of a positive ELISA test confirmed by an Western Blot revealing antibodies against the three proteins env, core and gag. For a test to be considered positive results by both methods had to be found in a second sample collected later. The prevalences of infection were of 0.29% for HIV 1 and 0.29% for HIV 2 although the prevalence of HIV 2 in the population of African origin was higher (1.45%). The six seropositive cases detected included a drug addict, one prostitute, one case of African origin and two cases with multiple sexual partners. The clinical, epidemiological and immunological features of the seropositive cases are presented and the prevalence found is discussed in the context of other portuguese data. The importance of discussing in detail the advantages and disadvantages of the different protocols of seroprevalence studies in the context of a given Center and Community before starting the screening programmes is stressed.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

    Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

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    A search for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and miss- ing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at √s = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are in- terpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour- neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross- section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50 GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1 GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour- charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35 GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1 TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements

    Charged-particle distributions at low transverse momentum in s=13\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV pppp interactions measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

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    Measurements of top-quark pair differential cross-sections in the eμe\mu channel in pppp collisions at s=13\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV using the ATLAS detector

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    Measurement of the W boson polarisation in ttˉt\bar{t} events from pp collisions at s\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV in the lepton + jets channel with ATLAS

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    Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top-quark pair production in the lepton-plus-jets final state in pp collision data at s=8TeV\sqrt{s}=8\,\mathrm TeV{} with the ATLAS detector

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    ATLAS Run 1 searches for direct pair production of third-generation squarks at the Large Hadron Collider

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    Measurement of the bbb\overline{b} dijet cross section in pp collisions at s=7\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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    Search for dark matter in association with a Higgs boson decaying to bb-quarks in pppp collisions at s=13\sqrt s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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    Measurement of jet fragmentation in Pb+Pb and pppp collisions at sNN=2.76\sqrt{{s_\mathrm{NN}}} = 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

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