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Caracterização dos casos confirmados de dengue por meio da técnica de linkage de bancos de dados, para avaliar a circulação viral em Belo Horizonte, 2009-2014

Epidemiol. serv. saúde; 29 (3), 2020
Objetivo: descrever a circulação viral de dengue em Belo Horizonte, Brasil, de 2009 a 2014. Métodos: trata-se de estudo de série de casos de dengue infectados por diferentes sorotipos do vírus, identificados por isolamento viral ou RT-PCR; foi realizado linkage das bases de dados do Sistema de Inf...

Rapid immunochromatographic tests for the diagnosis of dengue: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Abstract: Dengue is an important arthropod-borne viral disease in terms of morbidity, mortality, economic impact and challenges in vector control. Benchmarks are expensive, time consuming and require trained personnel. Preventing dengue complications with rapid diagnosis has been based on the testing of ...

Dengue y COVID-19: semejanzas y diferencias
Dengue and COVID-19: similarities and differences

Rev. cuba. pediatr; 92 (supl.1), 2020
Dengue y COVID-19 son dos enfermedades que amenazan a poblaciones enteras en la Región de Las Américas y coexisten en Cuba. Tienen semejanzas y diferencias que obligan a los médicos tratantes a hacer el diagnóstico diferencial entre ambas pues cada una puede ser causa de muerte. El objetivo del prese...

Alerta sobre la infección por dengue en población pediátrica durante la pandemia de la COVID-19
Alert on the infection by dengue in pediatric population during the COVID-19 pandemic

Rev. cuba. pediatr; 92 (supl.1), 2020

The direct and indirect effects of the pneumococcal conjugated vaccine on carriage rates in children aged younger than 5 years in Latin America and the Caribbean: a systematic review

ABSTRACT Objective To demonstrate the impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage status in children younger than 5 years in Latin America and the Caribbean. Methods A systematic literature review was carried out on the direct and indirect effects of pneumococcal vac...

Performance evaluation of an indirect immunofluorescence kit for the serological diagnosis of dengue

ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the performance of indirect immunofluorescence for serological diagnosis of dengue virus in a population with high prevalence of arboviruses. Methods: Two-hundred serum samples from patients with clinical suspicion of dengue fever were tested by immunoenzymatic and indir...

Factores de riesgo para mortalidad por dengue grave en pacientes pediátricos en el Hospital Mario Catarino Rivas
Risk factors for severe dengue mortality in pediatric patients at Mario Catarino Rivas

Acta pediátr. hondu; 10 (2), 2019
Antecedentes: El dengue es una enfermedad de presentación clínica variable, de manejo sencillo en la gran mayoría de las veces, ocasiona un enorme desafío al sistema de salud al presentarse en epidemias. Pacientes y métodos: Estudio de enfoque cuantitativo, no experimental, analítico de corte trans...

Dengue e seus avanços

RBAC. (Online); 51 (3), 2019
A Dengue é uma arbovirose presente em várias regiões do mundo, inclusive no Brasil, sob a forma de epidemias de grande magnitude, e sob a forma hiperendêmica nos lugares onde um ou mais sorotipos circularam anteriormente. Mesmo tendo os conhecimentos disponíveis para preveni-la, sob bases científic...

Knowledge, attitudes and practices about dengue among pupils from rural schools in Colombia

Biomédica (Bogotá); 39 (3), 2019
Abstract Introduction: Dengue is a public health problem in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Studies on dengue in rural areas are scarce since the disease is considered mainly urban. Objective: To determine the knowledge (K), attitudes (A) and practices (P) of dengue in an endemic area in...

Contribución de la prueba rápida NS1 e IgM al diagnóstico de dengue en Colombia en el periodo pre-zika

Infectio; 23 (3), 2019
Objetivo: Se considera que el diagnóstico del dengue es fundamentalmente clínico; sin embargo, las pruebas rápidas basadas en la detección de IgM o NS1/IgM están siendo utilizadas en los servicios de salud. Este estudio determinó la contribución de las pruebas rápidas al diagnóstico de dengue e...