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Local knowledge about fodder plants in the semi-arid region of Northeastern Brazil
... In Brazil, this activity plays an important role in the local economy, especially in the re- gion of northeastern Brazil, where it accounts for more than 90% of the national flock of small ruminants, ...
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Contraception Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Adolescents at Risk of Pregnancy in Northeastern Brazil
... Background: Contraceptive methods (CM) are important resources in the prevention of adolescent pregnancy. This study aimed to investigate adolescent knowledge, attitudes and practices related to contraception. Study ...
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Maternal near miss determinants at a maternity hospital for high risk pregnancy in northeastern Brazil: a prospective study
... in northeastern Brazil from June 2015 to May 2016 that included all pregnant women seen at the maternity hospital during the data collection period and excluded those who had not been discharged at the end ...
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Morphological Indices as Urban Planning Tools in Northeastern Brazil
... Abstract: The purpose of this article is to analyze urban form through the mapping of morphological indices, namely impervious surface fraction, building density, verticality, height/width ratio, roughness length, and ...
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Genetic screening analysis of patients with hereditary diffuse gastric cancer from northern and northeastern Brazil
... and northeastern Brazil, environmental factors or other molecular mechanisms might induce different genetic alterations from those analyzed in this ...
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Granulomatosis with polyangiitis in Northeastern Brazil: study of 25 cases and review of the literature
... in Northeastern Brazil are advised to include tuberculosis (a granulomatous disease highly prevalent in the region, with clinical manifestations not unlike those of GPA) in the differential diagnosis of GPA ...
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Plant extractivism in light of game theory: a case study in northeastern Brazil
... of northeastern Brazil is described as a model to illustrate a practical application of game theory in the interpretation of the phenomena analyzed in ethnobiological ...
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Timeline Analysis of Hepatitis B Cases in Northeastern Brazil
... The objective of this study was to analyze the spatial and temporal distribution of cases of Hepatitis B in the states of northeastern Brazil. This is an ecological study of the spatial and temporal ...
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Molecular breast cancer subtypes and therapies in a public hospital of Northeastern Brazil
... In contrast to studies with other populations, the present results revealed a high rate of patients with TN tumors aged over 50 years. To date, there are no studies about the risk factors that increase the frequency of ...
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Medicinal plants popularly used in the Xingó region – a semi-arid location in Northeastern Brazil
... energetic needs [24], as well as raising sheep and goats (free ranging) and maintaining small bean, rice, corn, and manioc plantations. Demographic growth brings struc- tural problems to the food production system, ...
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Birds and people in semiarid northeastern Brazil: symbolic and medicinal relationships
... of northeastern Brazil to identify the bird species hunted and utilized as therapeutic resources and/or cited in belief systems in order to evaluate the implications of these relationships on the ...
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Serological survey of Leishmaniainfection in blood donors in Salvador, Northeastern Brazil
... Background: Visceral Leishmaniasis is endemic to Brazil, where it is caused by Leishmania infantum (syn. Leishmania chagasi). Following parasite inoculation, individuals may experience asymptomatic infection, ...
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Use and traditional management of Anadenanthera colubrina(Vell.) Brenan in the semi-arid region of northeastern Brazil
... The study described here was undertaken in the commu- nity of Riachão de Malhada de Pedra, situated near the "Empresa Pernambucana de Pesquisa Agropecuária (IPA)" experimental station in the municipality of Caru- ...
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Traditional uses of medicinal animals in the semi-arid region of northeastern Brazil
... The medicinal animals cited in this survey were used to treat 43 different illnesses and maladies (Table 1). The treatment categories with the largest number of citations were: problems affecting the respiratory ...
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Risk factores associated the mortality of the cervical cancer in northeastern Brazil: a retrospective study
... Background: Cervical cancer (CU) is the third most prevalent cancer in women worldwide and Pap smear is a simple, effective and inexpensive technology to modify the rates of prevention, prevalence, and mortality of CU ...
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Use and knowledge of Cactaceae in Northeastern Brazil
... The study was performed in the São Francisco rural community, in Cabaceiras city, Paraiba state (Northeastern Brazil) (Figure 1). This community is at approximately 400 m altitude and is located in the ...
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Brackish Shrimp Farming in Northeastern Brazil: The Environmental and Socio Economic Impacts and Sustainability
... Despite the economic importance of farmed shrimp, a number of technical, environmental, economic and social prob- lems have been widely reported in the international literature. This paper focuses on the environmental ...
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High Zika Virus Seroprevalence in Salvador, Northeastern Brazil Limits the Potential for Further Outbreaks
... Finally, our results suggest an impact of low SES on the probability of ZIKV infection. Whether the increased ZIKV infection rate correlates with increased risk of microcephaly remains to be determined, but it is in line ...
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Cognitive Ability in Elderly in a City in Northeastern Brazil: An Analytical Study
... This multidimensional knowledge of the elderly living in the community is essential for the proper planning of their health care, seeking greater quality of life in the aging process. One of the practice sites of this ...
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Environmental influence on the choice of medicinal animals: a case study from northeastern Brazil
... Given the above, the aim of this article was to analyze the use of animals in medicinal practices of a fishing community in the district of Diogo Lopes, municipality of Macau, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. This ...
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