O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar indicadores operacionais de controle da hanseníase e sua tendência temporal, na perspectiva de gênero, no Estado da Bahia, Brasil, de 2001 a 2014. Trata-se de estudo de série temporal baseado em dados epidemiológicos da hanseníase no Sistema de Informação de A...
Brasil/epidemiología,
Estudios de Cohortes,
Enfermedades Endémicas/prevención & control,
Enfermedades Endémicas/estadística & datos numéricos,
Relaciones Interpersonales,
Lepra/epidemiología,
Lepra/prevención & control,
Lepra/transmisión,
Análisis de Regresión,
Factores Sexuales,
Factores Socioeconómicos
Resumo: Foi avaliada a associação entre características ambientais obtidas por sensoriamento remoto e a prevalência da leishmaniose visceral canina (LVC) no bairro do Jacaré, área de recente introdução da doença, no Município de Niterói, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Trata-se de um estudo ...
Brasil/epidemiología,
Enfermedades de los Perros/epidemiología,
Enfermedades de los Perros/transmisión,
Leishmania infantum,
Leishmaniasis Visceral/epidemiología,
Leishmaniasis Visceral/transmisión,
Leishmaniasis Visceral/veterinaria,
Zarigüeyas,
Prevalencia,
Características de la Residencia,
Factores de Riesgo
O objetivo foi analisar a tendência das taxas de detecção de hanseníase em menores de 15 anos no Brasil, no período de 2001 a 2016. Trata-se de um estudo de série temporal, utilizando o procedimento de Prais-Winsten para análise de regressão linear generalizada com nível de significância de 5%....
ABSTRACT Objective: To learn the epidemiological characteristics of HIV infection in pregnant women. Method: Descriptive study with quantitative approach. The study population was composed of pregnant women with HIV/AIDS residing in the state of Alagoas. Data were organized into variables and analyzed ...
BACKGROUND Cutaneous tuberculosis (CTB) is a rare extrapulmonary form of tuberculosis (TB). Despite the increase in the number of cases of TB and HIV, few cases of CTB have been reported. OBJECTIVE To describe CTB cases among patients with HIV infection from a cohort with tuberculosis. METHODS We des...
The Malaria Frontier Hypothesis (MFH) is the current model for predicting malaria emergence in the Brazilian Amazon. It has two important dimensions, 'settlement time' and 'malaria incidence', and its prediction are: malaria incidence peaks five years after the initiation of human settlement and declines...
A pivotal strategy to decrease the risk of visceral leishmaniasis in humans is to control the infection and disease progression in dogs, the domestic reservoir of Leishmania infantum (L. chagasi). Immunotherapy is a viable approach to treat sick dogs because cell-mediated immunity is the principal defens...
BACKGROUND The first dengue cases in Brazil with laboratory confirmation occurred in the northern region of the country, with the isolation of two serotypes, dengue virus 1 (DENV-1) and DENV-4. In Ceará, the introduction of DENV-4 was reported during a DENV-1 epidemic in 2011, with only two isolations. ...
The mosquito Aedes aegypti is the main vector of several arthropod-borne diseases that have global impacts. In a previous meta-analysis, our group identified a vector gene set containing 110 genes strongly associated with infections of dengue, West Nile and yellow fever viruses. Of these 110 genes, four ...
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiology of dengue in a medium-sized city in the state of São Paulo. METHODS Data, such as circulating serotypes, severe cases and deaths, age group, sex, among others, were obtained on reported and confirmed dengue cases in Araraquara, state of São Paulo, bet...
