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Octavio Fernandes

Octavio Fernandes

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
52
Citations
9827
World Ranking
16682
National Ranking
97

Overview

Octavio Fernandes is affiliated with the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Brazil. Their research spans multiple disciplines, including surgery, emergency medical services, genetics, speech and hearing, and visual and performing arts. Their work engages with both medical and cultural fields.

Their main research topics include:

  • Facial Trauma and Fracture Management
  • Dental Trauma and Treatments
  • Ocular Disorders and Treatments
  • History, Culture, and Society
  • Arts and Performance Studies

Fernandes has published papers in several venues, reflecting a diverse range of interests and interdisciplinary work. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Revista Avesso
  • Urdimento
  • Revista aSPAs
  • Poster

Recent papers by Fernandes illustrate their engagement with both medical and cultural subjects. These include:

  • "Não ela" ou a tentativa de construir cenicamente a representação de um gênero não inteligível, 2020, Revista Avesso
  • A transfobia como trauma e critério curatorial da cisnormatividade, 2024, Urdimento
  • A não-binariedade como princípio do programa performativo: a percepção da potência cênica do mundo pela transição de gênero, 2024, Revista aSPAs
  • P28 Ascertaining the potential for hypoglycaemia during exercise in cardiac patients on SGLT-2 inhibitors, 2025, Poster

Collaborators frequently working alongside Fernandes include Olivia Hudson, Charlotte Wensley, I. C. Wilson, Amelia Priddey, and Christos Lykidis.

Best Publications

  • A new consensus for Trypanosoma cruzi intraspecific nomenclature: second revision meeting recommends TcI to TcVI.

    B Zingales;SG Andrade;Briones;DA Campbell

  • DNA markers define two major phylogenetic lineages of Trypanosoma cruzi

    Ricardo P. Souto;Octavio Fernandes;Andréa M. Macedo;David A. Campbell

  • Emerging Chagas disease in Amazonian Brazil.

    José Rodrigues Coura;Angela C.V. Junqueira;Octavio Fernandes;Sebastiao A.S. Valente

  • Ancestral genomes, sex, and the population structure of Trypanosoma cruzi.

    Jorge M. de Freitas;Luiz Augusto-Pinto;Juliana R Pimenta;Luciana Bastos-Rodrigues

  • Use of molecular probes and PCR for detection and typing of Leishmania - a mini-review

    Win Degrave;Octavio Fernandes;David Campbell;Marcelo Bozza

  • A mini-exon multiplex polymerase chain reaction to distinguish the major groups of Trypanosoma cruzi and T. rangeli in the Brazilian Amazon.

    O. Fernandes;S. S. Santos;E. Cupolillo;B. Mendonca

  • Comparison of the polymerase chain reaction and serology for the detection of canine visceral leishmaniasis.

    Ashford Da;Bozza M;Freire M;Miranda Jc

  • Analysis of an acute Chagas disease outbreak in the Brazilian Amazon: human cases, triatomines, reservoir mammals and parasites.

    Sebastião Aldo da Silva Valente;Vera da Costa Valente;Ana Yecê das Neves Pinto;Maria de Jesus Barbosa César

  • Genotyping of Giardia duodenalis from human and animal samples from Brazil using β-giardin gene: A phylogenetic analysis

    A.C. Volotão;L.M. Costa-Macedo;F.S.M. Haddad;A. Brandão

  • Molecular epidemiology of American trypanosomiasis in Brazil based on dimorphisms of rRNA and mini-exon gene sequences.

    B. Zingales;R.P. Souto;R.H. Mangia;C.V. Lisboa

  • Brazilian isolates of Trypanosoma cruzi from humans and triatomines classified into two lineages using mini-exon and ribosomal RNA sequences.

    O Fernandes;R P Souto;J A Castro;J B Pereira

  • Detection of Leishmania DNA by Polymerase Chain Reaction in Scars of Treated Human Patients

    Armando Schubach;Fatima Haddad;Manoel Paes-Oliveira Neto;Wim Degrave

  • Should Trypanosoma cruzi be called "cruzi" complex? a review of the parasite diversity and the potential of selecting population after in vitro culturing and mice infection.

    Rodolfo Devera;Octavio Fernandes;José Rodrigues Coura

  • Use of PCR in diagnosis of human american tegumentary leishmaniasis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

    Claude Pirmez;Valéria da Silva Trajano;Manoel Paes-Oliveira Neto;Alda Maria da-Cruz

  • Mini-exon gene variation in human pathogenic Leishmania species.

    Octavio Fernandes;Octavio Fernandes;Octavio Fernandes;Vimal K. Murthy;Ursula Kurath;Wim M. Degrave

  • Identification of Giardia lamblia Assemblage E in Humans Points to a New Anthropozoonotic Cycle.

    Maria Fantinatti;Alexandre R. Bello;Octavio Fernandes;Alda M. Da-Cruz;Alda M. Da-Cruz

  • The complexity of the sylvatic cycle of Trypanosoma cruzi in Rio de Janeiro state (Brazil) revealed by the non-transcribed spacer of the mini-exon gene

    O. Fernandes;R. H. Mangia;C. V. Lisboa;A. P. Pinho

  • Paleoparasitology of Chagas disease revaled by infected tissues from Chilean mummies.

    L.F Ferreira;C Britto;M.A Cardoso;O Fernandes;O Fernandes

  • Parasite persistence in treated chagasic patients revealed by xenodiagnosis and polymerase chain reaction

    Constança Britto;Celeste Silveira;Maria Angelica Cardoso;Patricia Marques

  • Natural infection of a domestic cat (Felis domesticus) with Leishmania (Viannia) in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Valéria M. A. Passos;Edson B. Lasmar;Célia M. F. Gontijo;Octavio Fernandes

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Campbell
David A. Campbell University of California, Los Angeles
José Rodrigues Coura
José Rodrigues Coura Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Ana Maria Jansen
Ana Maria Jansen Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Bianca Zingales
Bianca Zingales Universidade de São Paulo
Nancy R. Sturm
Nancy R. Sturm University of California, Los Angeles
Marcelo T. Bozza
Marcelo T. Bozza Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Andrea M. Macedo
Andrea M. Macedo Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Heitor Miraglia Herrera
Heitor Miraglia Herrera Dom Bosco Catholic University
Julius Lukeš
Julius Lukeš Czech Academy of Sciences
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski University of Oxford

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