Objective: To describe the basic epidemiology, clinical presentations and therapeutic approaches of syphilis patients treated by the Specialized Infectious and Parasitic Disease Reference Unit (UREDIPE). Methods: This was a descriptive, observational, case series study, with the view to describe the epidemiology, clinical aspects and treatment used in patients diagnosed with syphilis and HIV, followed at the UREDIPE from 2016 to 2018, through data collection in patient records and medical records. Results: T Data were collected from 138 patients. The average age was 36.4 years, ranging from 20 to 80 years. Mainly composed of men, brown, single and residents of the state of Pará. Of the cases of HIV / Syphilis coinfection, 26% occurred in 2016, 18% in 2017 and 54% in 2018. The most commonly used forms of treatment follow the scheme. of three antiretrovirals, two being Nucleoside / Nucleotide Analog Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors associated with another class. The most commonly used treatment in syphilis patients was benzathine benzylpenicillin. Conclusion: HIV / syphilis coinfection increased successively in the years of the survey. Thus, further research on the subject is essential to enhance treatment and prevention.
While robotics have been widely used in many agricultural practices such as harvesting, seeding, cattle monitoring, etc., aquaculture farming is an important, fast-growing sector of agriculture that has not seen significant adoption of advanced technologies such as robotics and the Internet of Things (IoT). In particular, dissolved oxygen (DO) monitoring, a practice in pond aquaculture essential to the health of the fish crops, remains labor-intensive and time-consuming. The Hybrid Aerial Underwater robotiCs System (HAUCS) is an IoT framework that aims to bring transformative changes to pond aquaculture. This paper focuses on the latest development in the HAUCS mobile sensing platform and field deployment. To address some shortcomings with the current implementation, the development of a novel rigid Kirigami-based robotic extension subsystem that can expand the functionality of the HAUCS platform is also being discussed.
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