Sinval Pinto Brandão Filho

@fiocruz.br

Department of Immunology
Institut Aggeu Magalhães/Fiocruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Parasitology, entomology, epidemiology, public health.
5512

Scholar Citations

38

Scholar h-index

85

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Chromosome level genome assembly of the World Health standards Leishmania (Viannia) guyanensis M4147 and L.(V.) shawi M8408 using a hybrid sequencing approach
    PO Túllume-Vergara, ACS de Lima, CM de Castro Gomes, BS Lima, ...
    Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro 121, e250270 , 2026
    2026
  • Relative and attributable risks of neurological and perinatal adverse outcomes among children with and without prenatal Zika virus exposure in Northeast Brazil: A prospective …
    JMSSA Fontes, DB Miranda-Filho, UR Montarroyos, TVB de Araújo, ...
    PLoS neglected tropical diseases 19 (8), e0013344 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Eridan de Medeiros Coutinho (★ 1931† 2024)
    CS Barbosa, DA Melo Filho, SP Brandão-Filho
    Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical 57, e01400-2024 , 2024
    2024
  • Establishment of a laboratory colony of Pressatia choti (Diptera: Psychodidae), a suspected vector of Leishmania braziliensis
    J Alexandre, DEO Miranda, FJ Silva, F Dantas-Torres, SP Brandão-Filho
    Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical 57, e00706-2024 , 2024
    2024
  • Evolutionary genomics of a zoonotic parasite across the Neotropical Realm
    S Heeren, M Sanders, JJ Shaw, SP Brandão-Filho, MC Boité, ...
    bioRxiv, 2024.06. 06.597691 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 2
  • Rhabdoviral Endogenous Sequences Identified in the Leishmaniasis Vector Lutzomyia longipalpis Are Widespread in Sandflies from South America
    AJ Tempone, MS Zezza-Ramalho, D Borely, AN Pitaluga, RP Brazil, ...
    Viruses 16 (3), 395 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 2
  • Clinical spectrum of congenital Zika virus infection in Brazil: Update and issues for research development
    CMT Martelli, F Cortes, SP Brandão-Filho, MD Turchi, WV Souza, ...
    Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical 57, e00301-2024 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 11
  • Assessing reservoir host status in leishmaniasis with special reference to the infectiousness of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis infections in wild rodents
    JJ Shaw, JF Marinho-Júnior, O Courtenay, SP Brandão-Filho
    Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical 56, e0503-2023 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 13
  • Incidence of Human and Free-Ranging Wild Rodent Infections with Leishmania ( Viannia ) braziliensis , Aetiological Agent of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis
    O Courtenay, JF Marinho-Júnior, MEF Brito, JF Monteiro, JJ Shaw, ...
    Pathogens 12 (12), 1395 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 3
  • On the control of 2D turbulence by active mixing in opposed jets mixers
    M Brito, SP Brandão, ND Gonçalves, CP Fonte, MM Dias, JCB Lopes, ...
    Chemical Engineering Research and Design 195, 272-285 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 5
  • High levels of infectiousness of asymptomatic Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis infections in wild rodents highlights their importance in the epidemiology of …
    JF Marinho-Júnior, JF Monteiro, AW Sales de Carvalho, FG de Carvalho, ...
    PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 17 (1), e0010996 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 21
  • Study on the zoonotic cycle of tegumentary leishmaniasis in an endemic area of a metropolitan region in the Northeastern region of Brazil
    CJ Silva, JFCLS Monteiro, KPB Lima, CSAG Silva, ÉL Almeida, SF Souza, ...
    Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo 64, e60 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 3
  • Leishmania V. braziliensis infection in asymptomatic domestic animals within an endemic region in the Northeast of Brazil
    CJ Silva, KPB Lima, JFCLS Monteiro, AKSF Silva, FJ Silva, AMS Pereira, ...
    Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical 55, e0600-2021 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 7
  • Clinical-therapeutic follow-up of patients with American cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by different Leishmania spp. in Brazil.
    RCS Morais, MGN Melo, TC Goes, ESR Pessoa, RF de Morais, ...
    Experimental Parasitology 240, 108338-108338 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 6
  • Effects of Migonemyia migonei salivary gland homogenates on Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis infection in BALB/c mice
    DE de Oliveira Miranda, KG da Silva Sales, LA Figueredo, SA de Oliveira, ...
    Acta Tropica 227, 106271 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 1
  • Fortalecer as atividades de informação e vigilância epidemiológica é essencial e urgente para reduzir a força de transmissão do SARS-CoV-2
    MG Teixeira, LRFS Kerr, RAA Ximenes, RLF Almeida, MY Ichihara, ...
    Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia 24, e210049 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 6
  • A Sanger-based approach for scaling up screening of SARS-CoV-2 variants of interest and concern
    MF Bezerra, LC Machado, VCV De Carvalho, C Docena, ...
    Infection, Genetics and Evolution 92, 104910 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 49
  • Ultrastructural analysis of nasopharyngeal epithelial cells from patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection
    KLA Saraiva, LRS Vasconcelos, MF Bezerra, RML Arcoverde, ...
    bioRxiv, 2021.07. 08.451607 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 4
  • Covid-19 no Nordeste do Brasil: primeiro ano de pandemia e incertezas que estão por vir
    LRFS Kerr, C Kendall, RLF Almeida, MY Ichihara, EML Aquino, AAM Silva, ...
    Revista de Saúde Pública 55, 35 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 28
  • COVID-19 in northeast Brazil: first year of the pandemic and uncertainties to come
    LRFS Kerr, C Kendall, RLF Almeida, MY Ichihara, EML Aquino, AAM Silva, ...
    Revista de Saúde Pública 55, 35 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 23

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Association between Zika virus infection and microcephaly in Brazil, January to May, 2016: preliminary report of a case-control study
    TVB de Araújo, LC Rodrigues, RA de Alencar Ximenes, ...
    The lancet infectious diseases 16 (12), 1356-1363 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 577
  • Association between microcephaly, Zika virus infection, and other risk factors in Brazil: final report of a case-control study
    TVB de Araújo, RA de Alencar Ximenes, D de Barros Miranda-Filho, ...
    The Lancet Infectious Diseases 18 (3), 328-336 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 445
  • Visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil: revisiting paradigms of epidemiology and control
    F Dantas-Torres, SP Brandão-Filho
    Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo 48 (3), 151-156 , 2006
    2006
    Citations: 337
  • Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Acari: Ixodidae), the brown dog tick, parasitizing humans in Brazil
    F Dantas-Torres, LA Figueredo, SP Brandão-Filho
    Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical 39, 64-67 , 2006
    2006
    Citations: 280
  • Wild and synanthropic hosts of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis in the endemic cutaneous leishmaniasis locality of Amaraji, Pernambuco State, Brazil
    SP Brandão-Filho, ME Brito, FG Carvalho, EA Ishikaw, E Cupolillo, ...
    Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 97 (3 … , 2003
    2003
    Citations: 234
  • Seroepidemiological survey on canine leishmaniasis among dogs from an urban area of Brazil
    F Dantas-Torres, MEF de Brito, SP Brandão-Filho
    Veterinary parasitology 140 (1-2), 54-60 , 2006
    2006
    Citations: 177
  • Natural Leishmania infantum infection in Migonemyia migonei (França, 1920)(Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) the putative vector of visceral leishmaniasis in Pernambuco …
    MR De Carvalho, HF Valenca, FJ Da Silva, D de Pita-Pereira, ...
    Acta tropica 116 (1), 108-110 , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 151
  • Epidemiological surveys confirm an increasing burden of cutaneous leishmaniasis in north-east Brazil
    SP Brandão-Filho, D Campbell-Lendrum, MEF Brito, JJ Shaw, CR Davies
    Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 93 (5 … , 1999
    1999
    Citations: 121
  • COVID-19 no Nordeste brasileiro: sucessos e limitações nas respostas dos governos dos estados
    L Kerr, C Kendall, AAM Silva, EML Aquino, JM Pescarini, RLF Almeida, ...
    Ciência & Saúde Coletiva 25, 4099-4120 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 116
  • Expansão geográfica da leishmaniose visceral no Estado de Pernambuco
    F Dantas-Torres, SP Brandão-Filho
    Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical 39, 352-356 , 2006
    2006
    Citations: 112
  • Detection of Leishmania infantum in Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks from Brazil and Italy
    F Dantas-Torres, V Lorusso, G Testini, M de Paiva-Cavalcanti, ...
    Parasitology research 106 (4), 857-860 , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 108
  • Lutzomyia migonei is a permissive vector competent for Leishmania infantum
    VCFV Guimarães, K Pruzinova, J Sadlova, V Volfova, J Myskova, ...
    Parasites & vectors 9 (1), 159 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 106
  • Epidemia de microcefalia e vírus Zika: a construção do conhecimento em epidemiologia
    MFPM Albuquerque, WV Souza, TVB Araújo, MC Braga, ...
    Cadernos de Saúde Pública 34, e00069018 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 91
  • Identification of phlebotomine sand fly blood meals by real-time PCR
    KGS Sales, PL Costa, RCS De Morais, D Otranto, SP Brandão-Filho, ...
    Parasites & vectors 8 (1), 230 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 87
  • Characterization of Leishmania spp. causing cutaneous leishmaniasis in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
    LI Camara Coelho, M Paes, JA Guerra, MG Barbosa, C Coelho, B Lima, ...
    Parasitology research 108 (3), 671-677 , 2011
    2011
    Citations: 84
  • Ectoparasite infestation on rural dogs in the municipality of São Vicente Férrer, Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil
    F Dantas-Torres, MF Melo, LA Figueredo, SP Brandão-Filho
    Revista Brasileira de parasitologia veterinaria 18 (3), 75-77 , 2009
    2009
    Citations: 81
  • American cutaneous leishmaniasis in Pernambuco, Brazil: eco-epidemiological aspects in" Zona da Mata" region
    SP Brandão-Filho, FG Carvalho, MEF Brito, FA Almeida, LA Nascimento
    Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 89 (3), 445-449 , 1994
    1994
    Citations: 78
  • Influences of climate change on the potential distribution of Lutzomyia longipalpis sensu lato (Psychodidae: Phlebotominae)
    AT Peterson, LP Campbell, DA Moo-Llanes, B Travi, C González, ...
    International Journal for Parasitology 47 (10-11), 667-674 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 74
  • Cutaneous and visceral leishmaniosis in dogs from a rural community in northeastern Brazil
    F Dantas-Torres, M de Paiva-Cavalcanti, LA Figueredo, MF Melo, ...
    Veterinary parasitology 170 (3-4), 313-317 , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 74
  • The microcephaly epidemic and Zika virus: building knowledge in epidemiology
    MFPM Albuquerque, WV Souza, TVB Araújo, MC Braga, ...
    Cadernos de saude publica 34, e00069018 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 73