Heading back into the perfect storm: increasing risks for disease emergence in Brazil?
Published in Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Heading back into the perfect storm: increasing risks for disease emergence in Brazil?
Post Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccine-associated Acute Myeloradiculoneuropathy Responsive to Plasmapheresis
Published in Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
How to overcome the stagnation of the first dose vaccine coverage curve against coronavirus disease 2019 in Brazil?
Published in Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Background: A large percentage of the population has not yet started vaccination, for which the increase in coverage is almost null. Methods: We used segmented regression analysis to estimate trends in the first dose coverage curve. Results: There has been a slowdown in the application of the first doses in Brazil since epidemiological week 36 (ave...
Stroke in Chagas disease: from pathophysiology to clinical practice
Published in Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Despite substantial progress toward its control, Chagas disease continues to be a major public health problem in Latin America and has become a global health concern. The disease affects approximately 6 million people, of whom 20-40% will develop cardiomyopathy over the years after the initial Trypanosoma cruzi infection. Chagas cardiomyopathy is t...
The role of free-living amoebae in the persistence of viruses in the era of severe acute respiratory syndrome 2, should ...
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Centipede envenomation (Chilopoda): Case report
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Centipedes are venomous arthropods that have an elongated body, divided into many segments, presenting a pair of legs in each segment, adapted pairs of paws that simulate fangs and inject venom causing intense pain, with local erythema and edema, and rarely, blisters and skin necrosis. We present the case of a young woman pricked on her upper lip w...
Nosocomial Valve Endocarditis after Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever
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Impacts of El Niño Southern Oscillation on the dengue transmission dynamics in the Metropolitan Region of Recife, Brazil...
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Background: This research addresses two questions: (1) how El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) affects climate variability and how it influences dengue transmission in the Metropolitan Region of Recife (MRR), and (2) whether the epidemic in MRR municipalities has any connection and synchronicity. Methods: Wavelet analysis and cross-correlation were...
Disseminated paracoccidioidomycosis with skull and mandible involvement in a heart transplant recipient
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Response to: RSBMT-2018-0270.R2 - Pain and quality of life in human T cell lymphotropic virus type 1 associated myelopat...
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