USP secured the 85th position—the first time a Brazilian university makes it into the ranking by UK consultancy QS World University.
“Faced with the high circulation of people among Latin American countries, the effort to expand monitoring to a continental level becomes crucial,” Fernanda Esposito said.
The prevalence of common mental disorders in this group of post-COVID patients was 32.2 percent, a higher figure than that reported in the general Brazilian population.
“This is the first account of a respiratory virus capable of infected and replicating in the salivary glands. Until then, it was believed that only viruses causing high prevalence diseases, like herpes, used salivary glands as reservoir. This may help explain why SARS-CoV-2 is so infectious,” the first author of the study, Bruno Fernandes Matuck.
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