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Patricia Manjate

Patricia Manjate

Master Student Malaria and Neglected Parasitic Diseases

Patrícia Manjate holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biomedicine with a Minor in Molecular Biomedicine from the University of Aveiro, Portugal. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Advanced Immunology at the University of Barcelona, Spain. Throughout her academic journey, she has developed a strong foundation in cellular and molecular biology, with a growing specialization in infectious diseases. Professionally, she has worked for the past three years in the Tuberculosis Research Group at the Manhiça Health Research Centre (CISM), in Maputo, Mozambique. During this time, she contributed to HIV/TB co-infection studies, particularly focusing on diagnostic methods for populations with limited sample accessibility. Her work has included microscopy, culture techniques, and molecular diagnostics in laboratory settings. She is currently based at the Immunology Laboratory of ISGlobal, where she is conducting her Master's thesis. Her current responsibilities include designing and performing multiplex assays and also doing data analysis using RStudio as part of her thesis. 

Lines of research

  • Tuberculosis
  • HIV coinfection

Main publications

  • Carratala-Castro, Lucia, Ssengooba, Willy ; Kay, Alex et al. A stool based qPCR for the diagnosis of TB in children and people living with HIV in Uganda, Eswatini and Mozambique (Stool4TB) : a protocol for a multicenter diagnostic evaluation. In: BMC infectious diseases. 2024 ; Vol. 24, No. 1.
  • Leukes, V N et al. “Study protocol: a pragmatic, cluster-randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effect of implementation of the Truenat platform/MTB assays at primary health care clinics in Mozambique and Tanzania (TB-CAPT CORE).” BMC infectious diseases vol. 24,1 107. 19 Jan. 2024, doi:10.1186/s12879-023-08876-8
  • Mangu, C., Cossa, M., Ndege, R. et al. Expanding Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra® and LF-LAM testing for diagnosis of tuberculosis among HIV-positive adults admitted to hospitals in Tanzania and Mozambique: a randomized controlled trial (the EXULTANT trial). BMC Infect Dis 24, 831 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-024-09651-z
  • Kay, Alexander et al. “Performance of a stool-based quantitative PCR assay for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in adolescents and adults: a multinational, prospective diagnostic accuracy study.” The Lancet. Microbe vol. 5,5 (2024): e433-e441. doi:10.1016/S2666-5247(23)00391-9
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