Abstract INTRODUCTION: This work aims to develop a biomathematical transmission model of COVID-19, in the State of Sergipe, Brazil, to estimate the distribution of cases over time and project the impact on the spread of the epidemic outbreak due to interventions and control measures over the local popul...
Abstract INTRODUCTION: In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak a pandemic. In Brazil, 110 thousand cases and 5,901 deaths were confirmed by the end of April 2020. The scarcity of laboratory resources, the overload on the service network, and the...
Abstract INTRODUCTION: This study investigated the role of early public research funding regarding the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. METHODS: We examined the budget for research projects relating to the number of cases and deaths and the relationship between each federal unit, gross domestic product (...
Abstract The novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) outbreak occurred in Wuhan, China at the end of 2019. Here, we report the clinical characteristics and therapeutic procedure for a case of severe NCP. The patient was started on glucocorticoids and non-invasive ventilator treatment. After treatment, the pati...
Betacoronavirus,
Infecciones por Coronavirus,
Terapia Combinada,
Infecciones por Coronavirus/tratamiento farmacológico,
Infecciones por Coronavirus/terapia,
Glucocorticoides/administración & dosificación,
Persona de Mediana Edad,
Ventilación no Invasiva,
Pandemias,
Neumonía Viral/diagnóstico por imagen,
Neumonía Viral/terapia,
Tomografía Computarizada por Rayos X,
Resultado del Tratamiento
Abstract Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has been declared a pandemic. We herein report four COVID-19 cases with long-term positive viral ribonucleic acid (RNA) for about 61 days. Despite treatment with recombinant human interfer...
Jesus, Myrela Conceição Santos de;
Lima, Alexandra Giovanna Aragão;
Santos, Victor Santana;
Storti-Melo, Luciane Moreno;
Moura, Tatiana Rodrigues de;
Santos, Rafaela Windy Farias dos;
Santos, Cliomar Alves dos;
Martins-Filho, Paulo Ricardo;
Cuevas, Luis Eduardo;
Gurgel, Ricardo Queiroz.
Abstract Diagnosing cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) with only non-respiratory symptoms has been challenging. We reported the diagnosis of a child who tested positive for COVID-19 with abdominal pain/diarrhea and tracked his family cluster. One member of the family tested positive for COVID-19 on ...
Dolor Abdominal/etiología,
Betacoronavirus,
Infecciones por Coronavirus,
Técnicas de Laboratorio Clínico,
Análisis por Conglomerados,
Trazado de Contacto,
Coronavirus/aislamiento & purificación,
Infecciones por Coronavirus/diagnóstico,
Diarrea/diagnóstico,
Diarrea/etiología,
Fiebre/etiología,
Pandemias,
Faringitis/etiología,
Neumonía Viral/diagnóstico
Abstract INTRODUCTION: In March 2020, the rapid increase in COVID-19 cases overburdened the Italian health system, with the country becoming the pandemic's epicenter. METHODS: We present a narrative review based on manuscripts, official documents, and newspaper articles regarding COVID-19 in Italy. ...
Betacoronavirus,
Infecciones por Coronavirus,
Infecciones por Coronavirus/epidemiología,
Infecciones por Coronavirus/mortalidad,
Infecciones por Coronavirus/prevención & control,
Brotes de Enfermedades/prevención & control,
Planificación en Salud,
Italia/epidemiología,
Pandemias/prevención & control,
Neumonía Viral/epidemiología,
Neumonía Viral/mortalidad,
Neumonía Viral/prevención & control,
Cuarentena/métodos
Abstract INTRODUCTION: Mathematical models have been used to obtain long-term forecasts of the COVID-19 epidemic. METHODS: The daily COVID-19 case count in two Brazilian states was used to show the potential limitations of long-term forecasting through the application of a mathematical model to the dat...
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first officially described in Brazil on February 26th, 2020. The accumulation of reports of concomitant infections with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and pathogens that cause diseases endemic to tropical countries, such as de...
Souza, Carlos Dornels Freire de;
Santana, Gibson Barros de Almeida;
Leal, Thiago Cavalcanti;
Paiva, João Paulo Silva de;
Silva, Leonardo Feitosa da;
Santos, Lucas Gomes;
Machado, Michael Ferreira;
Correia, Divanise Suruagy;
Santos, Victor Santana;
Carmo, Rodrigo Feliciano do.
