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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Immunology in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Immunology in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Immunology in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Immunology in Brazil Leader Award

Overview

Aldina Barral is affiliated with the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Brazil and is active in the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Neurology, and Molecular Biology. Their research spans multiple topics, including leishmaniasis studies, mosquito-borne diseases and control, Trypanosoma species research, viral infections and vectors, long-term effects of COVID-19, malaria research and control, and COVID-19 clinical research studies.

They have contributed to several scientific papers published in reputable journals, with notable recent examples including:

  • Live, Attenuated, Tetravalent Butantan-Dengue Vaccine in Children and Adults (2024) in the New England Journal of Medicine
  • Prevalence and risk factors for long COVID after mild disease: A cohort study with a symptomatic control group (2023) in the Journal of Global Health
  • LTB4-Driven Inflammation and Increased Expression of ALOX5/ACE2 During Severe COVID-19 in Individuals With Diabetes (2021) in Diabetes
  • Efficacy and safety of Butantan-DV in participants aged 2-59 years through an extended follow-up: results from a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 3, multicentre trial in Brazil (2024) in The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • A clinical scoring system to predict long-term arthralgia in Chikungunya disease: A cohort study (2020) in PLoS neglected tropical diseases

Aldina Barral frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors, including Viviane Boaventura, Ricardo Khouri, Manoel Barral-Netto, Thiago Cerqueira-Silva, and Luciane Amorim Santos.

Their research has been published multiple times in venues such as PLoS neglected tropical diseases, Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Journal of Travel Medicine, Journal of Investigative Dermatology, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Best Publications

  • New Perspectives on a Subclinical Form of Visceral Leishmaniasis

    R. Badaro;T. C. Jones;E. M. Carvalho;D. Sampaio

  • Transforming growth factor-beta in leishmanial infection: a parasite escape mechanism

    Manoel Barral-Netto;Aldina Maria Prado Barral;Aldina Maria Prado Barral;Cari E. Brownell;Yasir A. W. Skeiky

  • Leishmaniasis in Bahia, Brazil: evidence that Leishmania amazonensis produces a wide spectrum of clinical disease.

    Barral A;Pedral-Sampaio D;Grimaldi Júnior G;Momen H

  • Treatment of visceral leishmaniasis with pentavalent antimony and interferon gamma.

    Roberto Badaro;Ernesto Falcoff;Fernando S. Badaro;Edgar M. Carvalho

  • Severe Plasmodium vivax malaria exhibits marked inflammatory imbalance

    Bruno B. Andrade;Bruno B. Andrade;Antonio Reis-Filho;Antonio Reis-Filho;Sebastião M. Souza-Neto;Sebastião M. Souza-Neto;Jorge Clarêncio;Jorge Clarêncio

  • Transforming growth factor beta as a virulence mechanism for Leishmania braziliensis

    Aldina Barral;Manoel Barral-Netto;Elenita C. Yong;Cari E. Brownell

  • CD4+CD25+ T Cells in Skin Lesions of Patients with Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Exhibit Phenotypic and Functional Characteristics of Natural Regulatory T Cells

    Ana P. Campanelli;Ana M. Roselino;Karen A. Cavassani;Marcelo S. F. Pereira

  • Clinical and immunopathological aspects of disseminated cutaneous leishmaniasis.

    E.M. Carvalho;A. Barral;J.M.L. Costa;A. Bittencourt

  • Neutrophils and macrophages cooperate in host resistance against Leishmania braziliensis infection

    Fernanda O. Novais;Rômulo C. Santiago;André Báfica;Ricardo Khouri

  • Immunologic Markers of Clinical Evolution in Children Recently Infected with Leishmania donovani chagasi

    Edgar M. Carvalho;Aldina Barral;Diana Pedral-Sampaio;Manoel Barral-Netto

  • Human immune response to sand fly salivary gland antigens: a useful epidemiological marker?

    Aldina Barral;Eduardo Honda;Arlene Caldas;Jackson Costa

  • A simple method for human peripheral blood monocyte isolation.

    Marcos C de Almeida;Alan C Silva;Aldina Barral;Manoel Barral Netto

  • Balance of IL-10 and Interferon-γ plasma levels in human visceral leishmaniasis: Implications in the pathogenesis

    Arlene Caldas;Arlene Caldas;Cecília Favali;Dorlene Aquino;Dorlene Aquino;Vera Vinhas

  • Human mucosal leishmaniasis: neutrophils infiltrate areas of tissue damage that express high levels of Th17-related cytokines.

    Viviane S. Boaventura;Claire S. Santos;Cristina Ribeiro de Barros Cardoso;José de Andrade

  • Chemokines in host–parasite interactions in leishmaniasis

    Maria Jania Teixeira;Maria Jania Teixeira;Clarissa Romero Teixeira;Clarissa Romero Teixeira;Bruno Bezerril Andrade;Bruno Bezerril Andrade;Manoel Barral-Netto;Manoel Barral-Netto

  • Leishmanial infection: analysis of its first steps. A review

    M. C. de Almeida;V. Vilhena;A. Barral;Manoel Barral-Netto

  • Evaluation of the micro enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for antibodies in American visceral leishmaniasis: antigen selection for detection of infection-specific responses.

    Roberto Badaró;Steven G. Reed;Aldina Barral;Gloria Orge

  • Flow cytometric determination of cellular sources and frequencies of key cytokine-producing lymphocytes directed against recombinant LACK and soluble Leishmania antigen in human cutaneous leishmaniasis.

    R. L. A. Bottrel;W. O. Dutra;F. A. Martins;B. Gontijo

  • Seroconversion against Lutzomyia longipalpis Saliva Concurrent with the Development of Anti–Leishmania chagasi Delayed-Type Hypersensitivity

    Regis B. Gomes;Cláudia Brodskyn;Cláudia Brodskyn;Camila I. de Oliveira;Jackson Costa

  • CD8(+) Granzyme B(+)-Mediated Tissue Injury vs. CD4(+)IFNγ(+)-Mediated Parasite Killing in Human Cutaneous Leishmaniasis

    Claire da Silva Santos;Claire da Silva Santos;Viviane Boaventura;Viviane Boaventura;Cristina Ribeiro Cardoso;Natalia Tavares;Natalia Tavares

  • Antigen-specific immunosuppression in visceral leishmaniasis is cell mediated.

    Edgar M. Carvalho;Olivia Bacellar;Aldina Barral;Roberto Badaro

Frequent Co-Authors

Manoel Barral-Netto
Manoel Barral-Netto Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Cláudia Brodskyn
Cláudia Brodskyn Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Edgar M. Carvalho
Edgar M. Carvalho Federal University of Bahia
Bruno B. Andrade
Bruno B. Andrade Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Olli Ruuskanen
Olli Ruuskanen Turku University Hospital
Roberto Badaró
Roberto Badaró Federal University of Bahia
Manuel Soto
Manuel Soto Autonomous University of Madrid
Helena Käyhty
Helena Käyhty Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Jesus G. Valenzuela
Jesus G. Valenzuela National Institutes of Health
João S. Silva
João S. Silva Universidade de São Paulo

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