Werneck, Guilherme Loureiro Porto, Luís Cristóvão Sena, Alexandre Ferreira, Orlando da Costa Junior Cavalcanti, Andrea Cony Santos, Ângela Maria Guimarães Secco, Danielle Angst Silva, Marcio Mariani, Diana Chieppe, Alexandre
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INTRODUCTION Rio de Janeiro has hardly experienced coronavirus disease. METHODS Here, 87,442 reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test results for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) were reported among Rio de Janeiro residents (March to September 2020). RESULTS Overall, RT-PCR positivity of 44.6% decrea...
Wu, Wanting Lu, Chenguang Liang, Yuan Zhang, Hongying Deng, Changsheng Wang, Qi Xu, Qin Tan, Bo Zhou, Chongjun Song, Jianping
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INTRODUCTION: Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), such as artemisinin-piperaquine (AP), dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP), and artemether-lumefantrine (AL), is the first-line treatment for malaria in many malaria-endemic areas. However, we lack a detailed evaluation of the cardiotoxicity of these ACTs. This study aimed to analyze the ele...
Faccini-Martínez, Álvaro A. Krawczak, Felipe da Silva de Oliveira, Stefan Vilges Labruna, Marcelo Bahia Angerami, Rodrigo Nogueira
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Kannan, Ayswarya Biswas, Lalitha Kumar, Anil Kurian, Jessy S.Nair, Anjaly Suresh, Parasmal Sadasivan, Shine Biswas, Raja
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INTRODUCTION: We compared the hepatitis C virus (HCV) core antigen test with the HCV RNA assay to confirm anti-HCV results to determine whether the HCV core antigen test could be used as an alternative confirmatory test to the HCV RNA test. METHODS: Sera from 156 patients were analyzed for anti-HCV and HCV core antigen using a chemiluminescent micr...
Villela, Daniel Antunes Maciel
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INTRODUCTION: Household crowding deserves attention when evaluating the transmission intensity of SARS-CoV-2 in Brazil. We aimed to evaluate the association between household crowding and COVID-19 incidence. METHODS: Linear and Poisson regression analyses were used to assess the associations between indices of household crowding (high, average, low...
Martinez, Edson Zangiacomi Passos, Afonso Dinis Costa Cinto, Antônio Fernando Escarso, Andreia Cássia Monteiro, Rosane Aparecida Silva, Jorgete Maria e Bellissimo-Rodrigues, Fernando Aragon, Davi Casale
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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 38-41 as the test period. RESULTS: The models performed w...
Braga, Jacqueline Ramos Machado de Souza, Marta Maria Caetano Melo, Iva Maria Lima de Araújo Faria, Luis Eduardo Meira Jorge, Roberta Jeane Bezerra
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INTRODUCTION: Envenomation remains a neglected public health problem in most tropical countries. Epidemiological studies on accidents caused by venomous animals are scarce in the Northeast region of Brazil, mainly in the state of Ceará. The present study aimed to describe the epidemiological features of envenomation cases involving venomous animals...
da Silva, Suely Conceição Alves Vater, Maria Claudia Ramalho, Daniela Maria de Paula de Almeida, Isabela Neves de Miranda, Silvana Spíndola Kritski, Afrânio
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INTRODUCTION: The intensification of research and innovation with the creation of networks of rapid and effective molecular tests as strategies for the end of tuberculosis are essential to avoid late diagnosis and for the eradication of the disease. We aimed to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of Xpert®MTB/RIF (Xpert) in the diagnosis of drug-resist...
Maia, Ana Maria Peixoto Cabral Azevedo, Camila de Sousa Lins de Oliveira, Rhaquel de Moraes Alves Bar... Barreto, Francisca Kalline Almeida Rodrigues, Adilina Soares Romeiro Simião, Adriana Rocha Gomes, Ileana Pitombeira Ribeiro, Erlane Marques Cavalcanti, Luciano Pamplona de Góes
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INTRODUCTION: Newborn who had Zika vírus but did not show microcephaly at birth may have neuropsychomotor development problems. We aimed to evaluate the developmental and anthropometric milestones of asymptomatic children whose mothers had Zika during pregnancy in Northeastern Brazil in 2015 and 2016. METHODS: We conducted a descriptive cross-secti...
Braz, Beatriz Maria de Almeida Silva, Raizza Barros Sousa Lins, Suzanna Cavalcante Silva, Diego Ricardo Xavier Ramalho, Walter Massa de Melo, Marcia Almeida
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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 positive dogs. The objective of this study was to describe...
