Souza VH

ORCID: 0000-0002-6620-540X · 2 papers in corpus

2022

HLA-G, LILRB1 and LILRB2 Variants in Zika Virus Transmission from Mother to Child in a Population from South and Southeast of Brazil.

Current issues in molecular biology ·doi:10.3390/cimb44070191

During the 2015-2016 epidemic, Brazil was the country with the highest rate of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection in the Americas. Twenty-nine percent of pregnant women positive for ZIKV exhibited ultrasound scans with fetus anomalies. Human leuko…

2020

Association of IL16 polymorphisms with periodontitis in Brazilians: A case- control study.

PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0239101

Periodontitis (PD) is a chronic inflammatory process resulting from the relationship of the immune response with the components in dental plaque. Cytokines and their genetic polymorphisms seem to be involved in the immunopathogenesis of thi…