Resumen Introducción: Clostridioides difficile causa diarrea y colitis pseudomembranosa. Su diagnóstico se realiza con la detección de glutamato-deshidrogenasa (GDH) o las toxinas A y B y se confirma con pruebas de amplificación de ácidos nucleicos. Objetivo: Definir si la determinación de GDH es...
Proteínas Bacterianas/análisis,
Toxinas Bacterianas/análisis,
Teorema de Bayes,
Biomarcadores/análisis,
Clostridioides difficile,
Infecciones por Clostridium/diagnóstico,
Infecciones por Clostridium/epidemiología,
Diarrea/microbiología,
Enterotoxinas/análisis,
Heces/química,
Heces/enzimología,
Glutamato Deshidrogenasa/análisis,
Funciones de Verosimilitud,
Prevalencia,
Estudios Retrospectivos,
Sensibilidad y Especificidad
Over the past two decades, many Brazilian cities have been reporting an increasing incidence and spread of feline sporotrichosis. The disease is neglected, and little is known about the causal processes underlying its epidemic occurrence. This study characterized the spatiotemporal dyna...
River impoundments for electricity generation lead to environmental changes which severely affect fish migration and species richness. However, little is known about their effect on the genetic structure and population dynamics downstream from the reservoir. Here, we analyzed a set of ten microsatellite ...
Abstract INTRODUCTION: We evaluated the performance of Bayesian vector autoregressive (BVAR) and Holt's models to forecast the weekly COVID-19 reported cases in six units of a large hospital. METHODS: Cases reported from epidemiologic weeks (EW) 12-37 were selected as the training period, and from EW 3...
Abstract INTRODUCTION: Visceral leishmaniasis has a broad worldwide distribution and constitutes a public health problem in the Northeast of Brazil. Located in this region is the state of Alagoas, where the disease is endemic in humans and where there has been a significant increase in the number of pos...
Abstract: Using data collected by the Brazilian National Household Sample Survey - COVID-19 (PNAD-COVID19) and semi-Bayesian modelling developed by Wu et al., we have estimated the effect of underreporting of COVID-19 cases in Brazil as of December 2020. The total number of infected individuals is about ...
O objetivo foi analisar os efeitos temporais (idade, período e coorte) na mortalidade por homicídios femininos nos estados da Região Nordeste do Brasil, no período de 1980 a 2017. Estudo ecológico de tendência temporal em que foram utilizados modelos APC com uma abordagem bayesiana e o método dete...
Objetivo: Analisar a distribuição espacial da tuberculose em indivíduos menores de 15 anos de idade e fatores socioeconômicos na Paraíba, Brasil, 2007-2016. Métodos: Estudo ecológico, com dados do Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação, sendo o município a unidade de análise. Rea...
This study describes the COVID-19 death reporting delay in the city of São Luís, Maranhão State, Brazil, and shows its impact on timely monitoring and modeling of the COVID-19 pandemic, while seeking to ascertain how nowcasting can improve death reporting delay. We analyzed COVID-19 death data reporte...
Costa, Silmery da Silva Brito;
Branco, Maria dos Remédios Freitas Carvalho;
Vasconcelos, Vitor Vieira;
Queiroz, Rejane Christine de Sousa;
Araujo, Adriana Soraya;
Câmara, Ana Patrícia Barros;
Fushita, Angela Terumi;
Silva, Maria do Socorro da;
Silva, Antônio Augusto Moura da;
Santos, Alcione Miranda dos.
Abstract INTRODUCTION: Dengue, chikungunya, and Zika are a growing global health problem. This study analyzed the spatial distribution of dengue, chikungunya, and Zika cases in São Luís, Maranhão, from 2015 to 2016 and investigated the association between socio-environmental and economic factors and ...
