SaMi-Trop

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Implementation science in the development of a care pathway for chronic Chagas disease: an experience from a municipality in Minas Gerais. Gonçalves ACO, Baldoni NR, Quintino ND, Vinhal WC, Melo BHF, Dessimoni SR, et al. Rev Soc Bras Med Trop. 2026; 59:e03812025. doi:10.1590/0037-8682-0381-2025
Genetic diversity of Trypanosoma cruzi in individuals with chronic Chagas disease in the Northern Minas Gerais and Vale do Jequitinhonha regions, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Xavier EMS, Araujo PF, Pedras JRS, Gonçalves TDS, de Souza NN, Ferreira AM, Silva LCO, Sabino EC, Nunes MDCP, Ribeiro ALP, Moreira OC, Vieira TM. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 2025 October;19(10):e0013627. PubMed PMID: 41091829; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12548877; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0013627
Evaluation of strategies for the diagnosis of Chagas disease in an endemic area: SaMi-Trop study. Ingredy Carolline de Jesus Santos, Cesar Augusto Taconeli, Ester Cerdeira Sabino, Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro, Andréia Brito de Souza, Ana Beatriz Cardoso Sena, Dardiane Santos Cruz, Sâmara Fernandes Leite, Ana Clara de Jesus Santos, Amanda Mota Lacerda, Luciano de Freitas Fernandes, Desirée Sant’Ana Haikal, Israel Molina Romero, Diego Dias de Araújo, Ariela Mota Ferreira. Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo, 2025 Aug 18:67:e55 doi: 10.1590/S1678-9946202567055. eCollection 2025
Health literacy assessment of individuals with and without Chagas disease: a cross-sectional study. Baldoni NR, Quintino ND, Ferreira AM, da Silva JLP, Ribeiro ALP, Oliveira CDL, Sabino EC, Cardoso CS.BMC Infect Dis. 2024 Dec 18;24(1):1414. doi: 10.1186/s12879-024-10213-6.
Prevalence analysis of Chagas disease by age group in an endemic region of Brazil: possible scenario of active vectorial transmission. Cruz DS,  Damasceno RF, Leite SF, Cardoso MD, Almeida DNM, de Souza AB, de Jesus Santos AC, Veira TM, Ribeiro ALP, de Oliveira LC, Sabino EC, Haikal DS, Ferreira AM, Molina I. IJID Reg. 2024 Jul 9:12:100400.  doi: 10.1016/j.ijregi.2024.100400. eCollection 2024 Sep.
Identification of Chagas disease biomarkers using untargeted metabolomics. Herreros-Cabello A, Bosch-Nicolau P, Pérez-Molina JA, Salvador F, Monge-Maillo B, Rodriguez-Palomares JF, Ribeiro ALP, Sánchez-Montalvá A, Sabino EC, Norman FF, Fresno M, Gironès N, Molina I.Sci Rep. 2024 Aug 13;14(1):18768. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-69205-w.PMID: 39138245.
Association between positive serology for COVID-19 and chagas cardiomyopathy progression: The SaMi-Trop project. Ferreira AM, Oliveira-da Silva LC, Cardoso CS, Oliveira CDL, Brito BOF, Bierrenbach AL, Santos ACJ, Cruz DS, Leite SF, Jesus AB, Damasceno RF, Nunes MCP, Molina I, Haikal DSA, Sabino EC, Ribeiro ALP.Travel Med Infect Dis. 2024 Sep-Oct;61:102745. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2024.102745. Epub 2024 Jul 22.
Parasite DNA and Markers of Decreased Immune Activation Associate Prospectively with Cardiac Functional Decline over 10 Years among Trypanosoma cruzi Seropositive Individuals in Brazil. Sunderraj A, Cunha LM, Avila M, Alexandria S, Ferreira AM, de Oliveira-da Silva LC, Ribeiro ALP, Nunes MDCP, Sabino EC, Landay A, Kalil J, Chevillard C, Cunha-Neto E, Feinstein MJ.Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Dec 19;25(1):44. doi: 10.3390/ijms25010044.
Gastrointestinal Manifestations of Chagas Disease: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis. Baldoni NR, de Oliveira-da Silva LC, Gonçalves ACO, Quintino ND, Ferreira AM, Bierrenbach AL, Padilha da Silva JL, Pereira Nunes MC, Ribeiro ALP, Oliveira CDL, Sabino EC, Cardoso CS.Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2023 Dec 4:tpmd230323. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.23-0323. Online ahead of print.PMID: 38052078.
Atividade de educação em saúde sobre doença de Chagas em área endêmica: relato de experiência: Health education activity on Chagas disease in an endemic area: an experience report. De Moura Santos Xavier, E.; Da Silva Gonçalves, T.; Francisco Dos Reis Matos, R. L.; Nunes De Souza, N.; Mota Ferreira, A.; Fiúza Damasceno, R.; Cerdeira Sabino, E.; Campos De Oliveira Da Silva, L.; Sant’ana Haikal, D.; Maria Vieira, T. Revista Unimontes Científica, [S. l.], v. 26, n. 1, p. 1–9, nov. 2023. DOI: 10.46551/ruc.v26n1a4.
Chagas disease and perceived quality of life: a cross-sectional study. Baldoni NR, Quintino ND, Oliveira CDL, Silva JLPD, Ferreira AM, Ribeiro ALP, Sabino EC, Cardoso CS.Rev Soc Bras Med Trop. 2023 Oct 30;56:e02062023. doi: 10.1590/0037-8682-0206-2023. eCollection 2023.
Overview of Chagas disease surveillance in an endemic region in Southeastern Brazil. Rafael AF, Ferreira RA, Mota AF, Damasceno RF, Menezes ASDS, Lopes BT, Paulo GL, Sabino EC, Ribeiro ALP, Quintino ND, Vieira TM.Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo. 2023 Oct 9;65:e51. doi: 10.1590/S1678-9946202365051. eCollection 2023.PMID: 37820247.
Screening for Chagas disease from the electrocardiogram using a deep neural network. Jidling C, Gedon D, Schön TB, Oliveira CDL, Cardoso CS, Ferreira AM, Giatti L, Barreto SM, Sabino EC, Ribeiro ALP, Ribeiro AH.PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2023 Jul 3;17(7):e0011118. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0011118. eCollection 2023 Jul.PMID: 37399207.
Evaluation of the properties of WHODAS-12 measurements in individuals with Chagas disease in Brazil. Tavares PA, Oliveira CDL, Ferreira AM, Baldoni NR, Quintino ND, Haikal DS, Bierrenbach AL, Ribeiro ALP, Sabino EC, Cardoso CS.Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo. 2023 Apr 14;65:e30. doi: 10.1590/S1678-9946202365030. eCollection 2023.PMID: 37075337.
Anti-Trypanosoma cruzi antibody profiling in patients with Chagas disease treated with benznidazole assessed by genome phage display. Rodriguez Carnero LA, Kuramoto A, Campos de Oliveira L, Monteiro JS, Setubal JC, Cunha-Neto E, et al. Jan. 2023. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 17(1): e0011019. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pntd.0011019
Failure to use health services by people with Chagas disease: Multilevel analysis of endemic area in Brazil. Damasceno RF, Sabino EC, Ribeiro ALP, Ferreira AM, de Oliveira-da Silva LC, Oliveira CDL, et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 16(9): e0010785. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010785
Hospitalizations due to gastrointestinal Chagas disease: National registry. Bierrenbach AL, Quintino ND, Moreira CHV, Damasceno RF, Nunes MDCP, Baldoni NR, de Oliveira da Silva LC, Ferreira AM, Cardoso CS, Haikal DS, Sabino EC, Ribeiro ALP, Oliveira CDL. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 2022September;16(9):e0010796. PubMed PMID: 36121897; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9522308; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0010796.
Consolidado dos Estudos Publicados pela Coorte SaMi-Trop com Pacientes Portadores de Doença de Chagas. Fernandes Leite S, Mota Ferreira A, Fiúza Damasceno R, Cerdeira Sabino Éster, Campos de Oliveira L, Luiz Pinho Ribeiro A, Mendes Vieira M, Henrique Ferreira Aguiar T, Sant’Ana Haikal D. RUC [Internet]. 28º de junho de 2022 [citado 9º de fevereiro de 2023];24(1):1-28. Disponível em: https://www.periodicos.unimontes.br/index.php/unicientifica/article/view/5445
Genome-wide association study for Chagas Cardiomyopathy identify a new risk locus on chromossome 18 associated with an immune-related protein and transcriptional signature. Sabino, E. C., Franco, L. A. M., Venturini, G., Velho Rodrigues, M., Marques, E., Oliveira-da Silva, L. C., Martins, L. N. A., Ferreira, A. M., Almeida, P. E. C., Silva, F. D. D., Leite, S. F., Nunes, M. D. C. P., Haikal, D. S., Oliveira, C. D. L., Cardoso, C. S., Seidman, J. G., Seidman, C. E., Casas, J. P., Ribeiro, A. L. P., Krieger, J. E., Pereira, A. C. (2022). PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 16(10), e0010725. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010725

Contextual influence on poor self-rated health in patients with Chagas disease: multilevel study. Ferreira AM, Sabino EC, Silva LCO, Oliveira CDL, Cardoso CS, Ribeiro ALP, Damasceno RF, Leite SF, Vieira TM, Nunes MDCP, Haikal DSA. Cien Saude Colet. 2022 Jul;27(7):2827-2842. doi: 10.1590/1413-81232022277.01682022. Epub 2022 Feb 26.PMID: 35730850

Two-year death prediction models among patients with Chagas Disease using machine learning-based methods. Ferreira, A.M., Santos, L.I., Sabino, E.C., Ribeiro, A.L.P., Oliveira-da Silva, L.C.D., Damasceno, R.F., D’Angelo, M.F.S.V., Nunes, M.D.C.P. and Haikal, D.S.A., 2022. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 16(4), p.e0010356.

Occurrence and spatial distribution of triatomines (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) in the urban area of the municipality of Montes Claros, Northern Minas Gerais, Brazil. Campos, M.C.O.A., Goncalves, T.D.S., Ursine, R.L., Marinho, S.D.S.B., Rodriguez Moreno, A., Diotaiuti, L.G., Damasceno, R.F., Ferreira, A.M., Ribeiro, A.L.P., Sabino, E.C. and Vieira, T.M., 2022. Zoonoses and Public Health, 69(2), pp.83-94.

Left ventricular systolic dysfunction predicted by artificial intelligence using the electrocardiogram in Chagas disease patients-The SaMi-Trop cohort. Brito BOF, Attia ZI, Martins LNA, Perel P, Nunes MCP, Sabino EC, Cardoso CS, Ferreira AM, Gomes PR, Luiz Pinho Ribeiro A, Lopez-Jimenez. F.PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2021 Dec 6;15(12):e0009974. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009974. eCollection 2021 Dec.PMID: 34871321

Accuracy and reliability of focused echocardiography in patients with Chagas disease from endemic areas: SaMi-Trop cohort study. Martins Barros, I.M., Barros, M.V.L., Almeida Martins, L.N., Ribeiro, A.L.P., de Camargo, R.S.S., Oliveira, C.D.L., Ferreira, A.M., de Oliveira, L.C., Bierrenbach, A.L., Haikal, D.S.A. and Sabino, E.C., 2021. PloS one, 16(11), p.e0258767.

A refined genome phage display methodology delineates the human antibody response in patients with Chagas disease. Teixeira AAR, Carnero LR, Kuramoto A, Tang FHF, Gomes CH, Pereira NB, de Oliveira LC, Garrini R, Monteiro JS, Setubal JC, Sabino EC, Pasqualini R, Colli W, Arap W, Alves MJM, Cunha-Neto E, Giordano RJ. iScience. 2021 June 25;24(6):102540. PubMed PMID: 34142048; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8185243; DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102540

Estudo Longitudinal de indivíduos com doença de chagas de região endêmica brasileira: a coorte SaMiTrop. de Souza, Andréia Brito, Amanda Mota Lacerda, Ariela Mota Ferreira, Renata Fiúza Damasceno, Éster Cerdeira Sabino, Antônio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro, Thallyta Maria Vieira, Desirée Sant’Ana Haikal, and Amanda Karoline Pinheiro Silva. Revista Unimontes Científica 23, no. 2 (2021): 01-22.

Serological screening for Chagas disease in an endemic region of Northern Minas Gerais, Brazil: the SaMi-Trop project. Cruz, D.S., Souza, N.N.D., Rafael, A.F., Damasceno, R.F., Ribeiro, A.L.P., Oliveira, L.C.D., Sabino, E.C., Ghilardi, F.D.R., Cruz Neto, O.C., Ferreira, A.M. and Haikal, D.S.A., 2021. Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 63.

Cohort profile update: the main and new findings from the SaMi-Trop Chagas cohort. Oliveira, C.D.L., Cardoso, C.S., Baldoni, N.R., Natany, L., Ferreira, A.M., Oliveira, L.C.D., Nunes, M.D.C.P., Quintino, N.D., Bierrenbach, A.L., Buss, L.F. and Haikal, D.S.A., 2021. Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 63.

Incidence and Predictors of Progression to Chagas Cardiomyopathy: Long-Term Follow-Up of Trypanosoma cruzi–Seropositive Individuals. Nunes, M.C.P., Buss, L.F., Silva, J.L.P., Martins, L.N.A., Oliveira, C.D.L., Cardoso, C.S., Brito, B.O.D.F., Ferreira, A.M., Oliveira, L.C., Bierrenbach, A.L. and Fernandes, F., 2021. Circulation, 144(19), pp.1553-1566.

Rare pathogenic variants in mitochondrial and inflammation-associated genes may lead to inflammatory cardiomyopathy in Chagas disease. Ouarhache M, Marquet S, Frade AF, Ferreira AM, Ianni B, Almeida RR, Nunes JP, Ferreira LR, Rigaud VO, Cândido D, Mady C. Journal of clinical immunology. 2021 Jul;41(5):1048-63.

Quality of life in patients with Chagas disease and the instrument used: an integrative review. Nayara Ragi Baldoni, Nayara Dornela Quintino, Geisa Cristina Silva Alves, Claudia Di Lorenzo Oliveira, Ester Cerdeira Sabino, Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro, Clareci Silva Cardoso. Rev Inst Med Trop São Paulo. 2021;63:e46;  https://doi.org/10.1590/S1678-9946202163046  

Pharmacogenomic profile and adverse drug reactions in a prospective therapeutic cohort of Chagas disease patients treated with Benznidazole. LAM Franco, CHV Moreira, L Buss, LC Oliveira, RCR Martins, E Manuli, JAL Lindoso, MP Busch, A Pereira, EC Sabino. Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Feb 16;22(4):1960.

Challenges in the care of patients with Chagas disease in the Brazilian public health system: A qualitative study with primary health care doctors. Damasceno, Renata Fiúza, Ester Cerdeira Sabino, Ariela Mota Ferreira, Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro, Hugo Fonseca Moreira, Thalita Emily Cezário Prates, Cristina Andrade Sampaio, and Desirée Sant´ Ana Haikal. PLoS neglected tropical diseases 14, no. 11 (2020): e0008782.

Impact of the social context on the prognosis of Chagas disease patients: Multilevel analysis of a Brazilian cohort. Ariela Mota Ferreira, Ester Cerdeira Sabino, Lea Campos de Oliveira, Cláudia Di Lorenzo Oliveira, Clareci Silva Cardoso, Antônio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro, Renata Fiúza Damasceno, Maria do Carmo Pereira Nunes, Desirée Sant’ Ana Haikal. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2020 Jun; 14(6): e0008399. Published online 2020 Jun 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008399. PMCID: PMC7351237

ELISA Saliva for Trypanosoma cruzi Antibody Detection: An Alternative for Serological Surveys in Endemic Regions. Oliveira LC, Pereira NB, Moreira CHV, Bierrenbach AL, Salles FC, de Souza-Basqueira M, Manuli ER, Ferreira AM, Oliveira CDL, Cardoso CS, Ribeiro ALP, Sabino EC. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2020 Apr;102(4):800-803. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0330.

Factors associated with quality of life in patients with Chagas disease: SaMi-Trop project. Quintino ND, Sabino EC, da Silva JLP, Ribeiro ALP, Ferreira AM, Davi GL, Oliveira CDL, Cardoso CS.PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2020 May 27;14(5):e0008144. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008144. eCollection 2020 May.

Corrigendum to: Blood Gene Signatures of Chagas Cardiomyopathy With or Without Ventricular Dysfunction. Ferreira LRP, Ferreira FM, Nakaya HI, Deng X, Cândido DDS, de Oliveira LC, Billaud JN, Lanteri MC, Rigaud VO, Seielstad M, Kalil J, Fernandes F, Ribeiro ALP, Sabino EC, Cunha-Neto E.J Infect Dis. 2020 Apr 7;221(9):1564. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiz661.

Risk Score for Predicting 2-Year Mortality in Patients With Chagas Cardiomyopathy From Endemic Areas: SaMi-Trop Cohort Study. Claudia Di Lorenzo Oliveira, MD, PhD; Maria Carmo P. Nunes, MD, PhD; Enrico Antonio Colosimo, PhD; Emilly Malveira de Lima, MS; Clareci S. Cardoso, MD, PhD; Ariela Mota Ferreira, PhD; Lea Campos de Oliveira, MD, PhD; Carlos Henrique Valente Moreira, MD; Ana Luiza Bierrenbach, MD, PhD; Desire_e Sant0Ana Haikal, MD, PhD; S_ergio Viana Peixoto, PhD; Maria Fernanda Lima-Costa, MD, PhD; Ester Cerdeira Sabino, MD, PhD; Antonio Luiz P. Ribeiro, MD, PhD. J Am Heart Assoc. 2020;9:e014176. DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.119.014176

Lack of evidence of seronegative infection in an endemic area of Chagas disease. Oliveira LC, Lee TH, Ferreira AM, Bierrenbach AL, Souza-Basqueira M, Oliveira CDL, Cardoso CS, Moreira CHV, Oikawa MK, Ribeiro ALP, Busch MP, Sabino EC. Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo. 2019 Feb 14;61:e11. doi: 10.1590/S1678-9946201961011.PMID:30785565

Disease Tolerance and Pathogen Resistance Genes May Underlie Trypanosoma cruzi  Persistence and Differential Progression to Chagas Disease Cardiomyopathy. Chevillard C, Nunes JPS, Frade AF, Almeida RR, Pandey RP, Nascimento MS, Kalil J, Cunha-Neto E. Frontiers in immunology. 2018 December 3;9:2791. PubMed PMID: 30559742; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6286977.

Beneficial effects of benznidazole in Chagas disease: NIH SaMi-Trop cohort study. Cardoso CS, Ribeiro ALP, Oliveira CDL, Oliveira LC, Ferreira AM, Bierrenbach AL, Silva JLP, Colosimo EA, Ferreira JE, Lee TH, Busch MP, Reingold AL, Sabino EC. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2018 Nov 1;12(11):e0006814. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006814. eCollection 2018 Nov. PMID: 29029074

Association between typical electrocardiographic abnormalities and NT-proBNP elevation in a large cohort of patients with Chagas disease from endemic area. Brito BOF, Pinto-Filho MM, Cardoso CS, Di Lorenzo Oliveira C, Ferreira AM, de Oliveira LC, Gomes P, Nunes MDCP, Sabino EC, Ribeiro ALP. Journal of electrocardiology. 2018 November;51(6):1039-1043. PubMed PMID: 30497727.

Assessment of knowledge about the clinical management of patients with Chagas Disease in an endemic region in Brazil. Ariela Mota Ferreira, Ester Cerdeira Sabino, Hugo Fonseca Moreira, Clareci Silva Cardoso, Cláudia di Lorenzo Oliveira, Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro, Bruno de Carvalho Ramos, Desirée Sant’Ana Haikal. Rev. APS. 2018 jul/set; 21(3): 345 – 354.
Multimodality imaging evaluation of Chagas disease: an expert consensus of Brazilian Cardiovascular Imaging Department (DIC) and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI).Nunes MCP, Badano LP, Marin-Neto JA, Edvardsen T, Fernández-Golfín C, Bucciarelli-Ducci C, Popescu BA, Underwood R, Habib G, Zamorano JL, Saraiva RM, Sabino EC, Botoni FA, Barbosa MM, Barros MVL, Falqueto E, Simões MV, Schmidt A, Rochitte CE, Rocha MOC, Ribeiro ALP, Lancellotti P. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2018 Apr 1;19(4):459-460n. doi: 10.1093/ehjci/jex154. PMID: 30383777

A novel antibody surrogate biomarker to monitor parasite persistence in Trypanosoma cruzi-infected patients. Zrein M, Granjon E, Gueyffier L, Caillaudeau J, Liehl P, Pottel H, Cardoso CS, Oliveira CDL, de Oliveira LC, Lee TH, Ferreira AM, Ribeiro ALP, Busch MP, Sabino EC. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2018 Feb 9;12(2):e0006226. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006226. eCollection 2018 Feb. PMID:29425201

Mortality among blood donors seropositive and seronegative for Chagas disease (1996-2000) in São Paulo, Brazil: A death certificate linkage study. Capuani L, Bierrenbach AL, Pereira Alencar A, Mendrone A Jr, Ferreira JE, Custer B, P Ribeiro AL, Cerdeira Sabino E. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2017 May 18;11(5):e0005542. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005542. eCollection 2017 May. PMID: 28545053

Blood Gene Signatures of Chagas Cardiomyopathy With or Without Ventricular Dysfunction. Ferreira LR, Ferreira FM, Nakaya HI, Deng X, Cândido DD, de Oliveira LC, Billaud JN, Lanteri MC, Rigaud VO, Seielstad M, Kalil J, Fernandes F, Ribeiro AL, Sabino EC, Cunha-Neto E J Infect Dis. 2017 Feb 1;215(3):387-395. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiw540. PMID: 28003350

Benznidazole Use among Patients with Chronic Chagas’ Cardiomyopathy in an Endemic Region of Brazil. Ferreira AM, Sabino EC, de Oliveira LC, Oliveira CD, Cardoso CS, Ribeiro AL, Haikal DS. PLoS One. 2016 Nov 17;11(11):e0165950. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0165950. eCollection 2016. PMID: 27855177

Longitudinal study of patients with chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy in Brazil (SaMi-Trop project): a cohort profileClareci Silva Cardoso, Ester Cerdeira Sabino, Claudia Di Lorenzo Oliveira, Lea Campos de Oliveira, Ariela Mota Ferreira, Edécio Cunha-Neto, Ana Luiza Bierrenbach, João Eduardo Ferreira, Desirée Sant’Ana Haikal, Arthur L Reingold, Antonio Luiz P Ribeiro. BMJ Open. 2016; 6(5): e011181. Published online 2016 May 4. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011181 PMCID:  PMC4861110

Inflammatory and cardiac biomarkers are differentially expressed in clinical stages of Chagas disease. Keating, S.M., Deng, X., Fernandes, F., Cunha-Neto, E., Ribeiro, A.L., Adesina, B., Beyer, A.I., Contestable, P., Custer, B., Busch, M.P. and Sabino, E.C., 2015. International journal of cardiology, 199, pp.451-459 

Amiodarone and Trypanosoma cruzi parasitemia in patients with Chagas disease. Carmo, A.A.L, Rocha, M.O.C., Silva, J.L.P, Barbara M. Ianni, Fabio Fernandes, Ester C. Sabino, and Antonio LP Ribeiro. International journal of cardiology 189 (2015): 182.

Accuracy of a probabilistic record-linkage methodology used to track blood donors in the Mortality Information System database.  Capuani, Ligia, Ana Luiza Bierrenbach, Fatima Abreu, Pedro Losco Takecian, João Eduardo Ferreira, and Ester Cerdeira Sabino. Cadernos de saude publica 30 (2014): 1623-1632.