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Rodrigo CayôJ. Bras. Patol. Med. Lab. 2017;53(6):356-357DOI: 10.5935/1676-2444.20170056 Rodrigo Cayô Escola Paulista de Medicina/Universidade Federal de São Paulo (EPM/UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil The genus Acinetobacter comprises several groups of closely related species(1, 2), including the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-baumannii complex that was initially proposed in 1991(3). At that time, it had not yet been described what would become one of the […]

Carlos Eduardo S. FerreiraJ. Bras. Patol. Med. Lab. 2017;53(5):292DOI: 10.5935/1676-2444.20170045 Carlos Eduardo S. Ferreira Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil; Hospital São Paulo/Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM)/Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp), São Paulo, Brazil; Sociedade Brasileira de Patologia Clínica/Medicina Laboratorial (SBPC/ML), São Paulo, Brazil.Read more . . . English PDF Full text

Wilson Shcolnik; Adagmar AndrioloJ. Bras. Patol. Med. Lab. 2017;53(4):226DOI: 10.5935/1676-2444.20170034 For some years now, spending on health care and pensions has been one of the major economic concerns in most countries. Public and private resources employed in health care range from 6% to 12% of the gross domestic product (GDP), with some exceptions, such as

Maria de Lourdes ChauffailleJ. Bras. Patol. Med. Lab. 2017;53(2):80DOI: 10.5935/1676-2444.20170015 English PDF Full text

Adagmar AndrioloJ. Bras. Patol. Med. Lab. 2016;52(6):366DOI: 10.5935/1676-2444.20160059 Cancer is a complex group of diseases with numerous possible causes. These include genetic factors, eating habits, lifestyle, viral infections, exposure to different types of potentially mutagenic agents and radiation, among others. Although it represents an important group, cancers arising from inherited gene mutations correspond to a

Cecilia Godoy CarvalhãesJ. Bras. Patol. Med. Lab. 2016;52(5):282-283DOI: 10.5935/1676-2444.20160048 ABSTRACT The increase on antimicrobial resistance rates worldwide is a fact that has received great emphasis, not only in the scientific community, but also within the governmental, economic and social scope. In 2013, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, bacterial resistance was described as one