Introduction: Salmonellosis is the second most reported gastrointestinal disease and the first cause of foodborne outbreaks in Spain and in the EU. The aim of this study is to describe the temporal trend and epidemiological characteristics of salmonellosis in Spain during the pre-pandemic period 2013-2019, using three different sources.Methodology:...
Published in Revista espanola de salud publica
No se observan diferencias importantes. La vigilancia centinela permite optimización de recursos, siendo los métodos más eficientes para vigilancia de enfermedades de alta incidencia.
BACKGROUND // Sentinel surveillance is used to monitor health problems. The COVID detection strategy conducts universal surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 infection, which can be monitored by sentinel systems, through surveillance of mild acute respiratory infection (IRA) or severe respiratory infection (IRAG). The objective of this study was to compare in...
Arboviruses are transmitted by mosquitoes and ticks, causing severe diseases in humans such as dengue, Zika, Chikungunya, and yellow fever. This study aimed to standardize the RT-qPCR technique for detecting these viruses in paraffin-embedded tissue samples. A total of 45 paraffin-embedded samples were used, including arboviruses under study and ne...
Published in Salud colectiva
El objetivo de este artículo es comprender las acciones para combatir la viruela en Brasil, en el marco de la Campaña de Erradicación de la Viruela, que tuvo lugar en las décadas de 1960 y 1970. Se intenta argumentar que, además de la aguja bifurcada y de la vacuna liofilizada, la vigilancia epidemiológica -a partir de la construcción de instrument...
The aim of this article is to understand actions taken towards smallpox eradication in Brazil, in the framework of the Smallpox Eradication campaign that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. The article argues that, in addition to the bifurcated needle and the lyophilized vaccine, epidemiological surveillance – based on the construction of instrument...
Acute gastroenteritis (GEA) as a self-limited process of reduction in the consistency of bowel movements (liquid or semi-liquid) with increased frequency (greater than three bowel movements / day), and may be accompanied by vomiting, fever and abdominal pain. Its duration will be less than ten days and never greater than fourteen. The most frequent...
ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the completeness of perinatal death investigation sheets, stratified by age components. Method: descriptive study carried out in Recife, PE, in 2014. Among 308 perinatal deaths, 46 were excluded from this study due to association with congenital malformations, and 7 due to missing investigation sheets. Analysis inclu...
This article seeks to identify factors associated with the incidence of tuberculosis and the spatial distribution of the disease in Olinda, Pernambuco, from 1991 to 2010. In order to study the factors associated with the disease, Poisson regression was applied and standardized morbidity ratios were utilized for the spatial exploratory analysis. Alt...
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, between 1991 and 2015. Climatic and infestation data w...
