Background and objectives: human visceral leishmaniasis (HVL) are a persistent public health problem, configuring a challenge to reduce its lethality. In order to evaluate the factors associated with lethality, this study emphasizes the time elapsed from suspicion to treatment of HVL, in the years 2015 t...
Visceralleishmaniasis (VL), also known as ‘calazar’, is a serious chronic disease caused by Leishmania species from Leishmania(Leishmania) donovanicomplex, which the disease is characterized by abdominal swelling (hepatosplenomegaly) and may evolve to death in extreme cases.In this sense, ...
Investigación sobre Servicios de Salud/estadística & datos numéricos,
Anfotericina B/uso terapéutico,
Leishmaniasis Visceral/epidemiología,
Enfermedades Transmisibles/epidemiología,
Salud Pública,
Enfermedades Parasitarias/mortalidad,
Preparaciones Farmacéuticas,
Leishmaniasis Visceral/mortalidad,
Leishmaniasis Visceral/tratamiento farmacológico,
Leishmaniasis Visceral/prevención & control,
Enfermedades Parasitarias/prevención & control
Abstract INTRODUCTION We aimed to analyze the relationship between visceral leishmaniasis mortality and social determinants of health (SDH). METHODS This was an ecological study of all leishmaniasis-related deaths in Brazil, from 2001 to 2015. We analyzed 49 indicators of human development and social...
Objetivo: analisar a atual situação epidemiológica brasileira e gaúcha da leishmaniose visceral (LVH), em idosos e verificar o coeficiente de letalidade. Métodos: trata-se um estudo transversal realizado com fonte de dados secundária, em consulta à base de dados do Sistema de Informação de Agrav...
A leishmaniose visceral (LV) é grave problema de saúde pública no Brasil, onde permanece com elevadas taxas de letalidade a despeito das tentativas de controle. OBJETIVO: Identificar aspectos clínicos e laboratoriais admissionais associados ao óbito na LV. MATERIAIS E MÉTODOS: trata-se de estudo de...
O objetivo do trabalho foi analisar os dados relacionados à transmissão da leishmaniose visceral (LV), no município de Fortaleza, e discutir a respeito da distribuição do vetor, reservatório doméstico e casos humanos ocorridos no período de 2009 a 2013. O presente estudo é do tipo descritivo rea...
Abstract INTRODUCTION Early identification of patients at higher risk of progressing to severe disease and death is crucial for implementing therapeutic and preventive measures; this could reduce the morbidity and mortality from kala-azar. We describe a score set composed of four scales in addition to ...
Abstract: INTRODUCTION This paper aims to describe the dispersion of Lutzomyia longipalpis and the autochthonous occurrence of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in the Northwest region of the State of São Paulo between 2007 and 2013 and to analyze their expansion. METHODS Information about the vector and asso...
Brasil/epidemiología,
Enfermedades de los Perros/mortalidad,
Enfermedades de los Perros/transmisión,
Incidencia,
Insectos Vectores,
Leishmaniasis Visceral/mortalidad,
Leishmaniasis Visceral/transmisión,
Leishmaniasis Visceral/veterinaria,
Persona de Mediana Edad,
Psychodidae,
Análisis Espacio-Temporal
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To perform both space and space-time evaluations of visceral leishmaniasis in humans in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. METHODS The population considered in the study comprised autochthonous cases of visceral leishmaniasis and deaths resulting from it in Sao Paulo, between 1999 and...
Abstract: The age structure of the dog population is essential for planning and evaluating control programs for zoonotic diseases. We analyzed data of an owned-dog census in order to characterize, for the first time, the structure of a dog population under compulsory culling in a visceral leishmaniasis e...
Distribución por Edad,
Sacrificio de Animales/estadística & datos numéricos,
Brasil/epidemiología,
Censos,
Enfermedades de los Perros/epidemiología,
Enfermedades de los Perros/mortalidad,
Leishmaniasis Visceral/epidemiología,
Leishmaniasis Visceral/mortalidad,
Leishmaniasis Visceral/veterinaria,
Propiedad/estadística & datos numéricos,
Pronóstico de Población/métodos,
Tasa de Supervivencia
