{"id":296742,"date":"2021-08-03T12:02:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=296742"},"modified":"2021-08-04T19:14:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T22:14:46","slug":"brazilian-research-targets-retinal-scan-test-for-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazilian-research-targets-retinal-scan-test-for-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian research targets retinal-scan test for COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bras\u00edlia \u2013 Brazilian researchers managed to detect the coronavirus in retinae for the first time. The study can contribute to better understand the dynamics of the virus and the sequelae in infected patients.<\/p>\n<p>The research is led by the Federal University of S\u00e3o Paulo (Unifesp) and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) with funding from Brazil\u2019s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers scanned the retinae of patients that died from COVID-19 and compared them with pictures of their eyes when they were still alive to analyze their differences and how to determine the presence of the virus by scanning the retina.<\/p>\n<p>According to UFRJ professor and coordinator of the study, Rubens Belfort Jr, the retina is a relevant biomarker as it\u2019s part of the nervous system but is easir to access, thus allowing to identify the presence of the virus in some body parts like the nervous system itself.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to identifying the presence and reservoirs of the virus in the bodies of patients, the professor explains that the results of the study can help in the process of understanding and fighting the sequelae in post-acute sequelae of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe research can help understand the existence of sequelae and how to fight them, such as those related to neurological disorders that some COVID-19 patients have developed,\u201d Rubens Belfort said.<\/p>\n<p>The information gathered by the research can contribute to better understand the causes of the sequelae. \u201cDo they develop because of an immune response or are they related to the remaining virus?\u201d he wonders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-296745\">\u00a9Karen Bleier\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Unifesp and UFRJ managed to identify the presence of the virus in the retinae of patients, which is expected to contribute to the international understanding of the disease and its sequelae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":296745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[22565,22566,22575,22567,22571,22572,22573,22568,22569,22570,22574],"class_list":{"0":"post-296742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-coronavirus-blindness","9":"tag-coronavirus-eye","10":"tag-coronavirus-retina-en","11":"tag-covid-blindness","12":"tag-covid-research","13":"tag-covid-ufrj-research","14":"tag-covid-unifesp-research","15":"tag-covin-in-the-retina","16":"tag-does-covid-damages-vision","17":"tag-research-coronavirus","18":"tag-rubens-belfort-jr-en"},"wps_subtitle":"Researchers at Unifesp and UFRJ managed to identify the presence of the virus in the retinae of patients, which is expected to contribute to the international understanding of the disease and its sequelae.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}