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Paula Loureiro¹, Cesar de Almeida-Neto², Anna Bárbara Carneiro Proietti³

¹Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade de Pernambuco (UPE), Recife, PE, Brazil; Fundação Hemope, Recife, PE, Brazil.

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