Institution
Universidade do Estado do Amazonas
Recent research
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Abstract Sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) has emerged as a powerful proxy for reconstructing past biodiversity and environmental change in lacustrine and coastal systems, yet standardized field guidance remains limited, particularly for researchers working in tropical and coasta...
- BiologyOpen access
Background Snakebite envenoming remains a major neglected tropical disease worldwide, disproportionately affecting rural and socioeconomically vulnerable populations in tropical and subtropical regions. In Peru, snakebite burden is strongly concentrated in Amazonian territories,...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Healthcare occupancy data as an early warning indicator of infectious disease surges in São Paulo
Early detection of infectious disease surges is critical for effective public health response, yet traditional surveillance systems often suffer from delayed reporting. Here, we investigate whether passively collected occupancy data from healthcare facilities can act as an early...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Background Primaquine is widely used to prevent relapses of Plasmodium vivax malaria, but the optimal dose in Latin America is unknown. We undertook a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis to investigate the efficacy, tolerability and safety of different pri...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Artificial intelligence for Amazonian health: validation is the price of entry
At the AI as Catalyst meeting in Manaus (July 28–29, 2026; https://ia-como-catalisadora-manaus.netlify.app), participants ran a simple exercise. Working in teams, they wrote about ten clinical cases and put each one to widely used general-purpose chatbots twice: first in standard...
- BiologyOpen access
, indicating vertical redistribution driven by water fluxes. PCA identified sulfate as the primary variable governing the organization of soil solution chemistry along the soil profile. Overall, these findings demonstrate that continuous atmospheric sulfate deposition from indust...