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Strengthening the surveillance and information activities is urgent and essenti...
Teixeira, Maria Glória; Kerr, Ligia Regina Franco Sansigolo; Ximenes, Ricardo Arraes de Alencar; Almeida, Rosa Lívia Freitas de; Ichihara, Maria YuryN/A ; N/A
Epidemiologia dos acidentes de trânsito em Fortaleza no período de 2004 a 2008
Almeida, Rosa Lívia Freitas deThe mortality sponsored by traffic accidents is a serious public health problem, requiring surveillance and monitoring of prevention of this disease. Traffic accidents in the world are recognized as a phenomenon of great magnitude and highly complex, representing an expression of the interaction between humans, route, vehicle and legislation. The dynamics of this relationship, in turn, finds in the Brazilian re...
Strengthening the surveillance and information activities is urgent and essenti...
Teixeira, Maria Glória; Kerr, Ligia Regina Franco Sansigolo; Ximenes, Ricardo Arraes de Alencar; Almeida, Rosa Lívia Freitas de; Ichihara, Maria YurySituação: O preprint foi submetido para publicação em um periódico.
Epidemiology of neonatal mortality in Ceará in the period from 2005-2015
Cavalcante, Ana Nery Melo; Araújo, Maria Alix Leite; Lopes, Shirley Virino Silveira; Almeida, Tássia Ívila Freitas de; Almeida, Rosa Lívia Freitas deObjective: To analyze the differences in infant mortality and its spatial distribution in the state of Ceará and to identify the epidemiological profile of neonatal deaths. Methods: An ecological study was carried out in the municipalities using spatial analysis and linear regression techniques to identify spatial clusters and mortality trends in the period from 2005 to 2015. Data were collected from DATASUS, t...
Natural environmental water sources in endemic regions of northeastern Brazil a...
Arraes, Maria Luisa Bezerra de Macedo; Holanda, Maísa Viana de; Lima, Luana Nepomuceno Gondim Costa; Sabadia, José Antonio BeltrãoBACKGROUND The detection of live Mycobacterium leprae in soil and animals other than humans suggests that the environment plays a role in the transmission of leprosy. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to investigate the presence of viable M. leprae in natural water sources used by the local population in five municipalities in the state of Ceará, northeastern Brazil. METHODS Samples were collected from ...
Genotyping of Mycobacterium leprae for better understanding of leprosy transmis...
Fontes, Amanda N. B.; Lima, Luana N. G. C.; Mota, Rosa M. S.; Almeida, Rosa Lívia Freitas de; Pontes, Maria A.; Gonçalves, Heitor de S.Leprosy is endemic in large part of Brazil with 28,761 new patients in 2015, the second largest number worldwide and reaches 9/10.000 in highly endemic regions and 2.7/10.000 in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará, Northeast Brazil. For better understanding of risk factors for leprosy transmission, we conducted an epidemiologic study supplemented by 17 locus VNTR and SNP 1–4 typing of Mycobacterium leprae in skin biop...
Presence of Mycobacterium leprae genotype 4 in environmental waters in Northeas...
Holanda, Maísa Viana de; Marques, Livia Erika Carlos; Macedo, Maria Luisa Bezerra de; Pontes, Maria Araci de Andrade; Sabadia, José Antonio BeltrãoINTRODUCTION: This study quantified Mycobacterium leprae bacilli in environmental water samples from five municipalities in the State of Ceará by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) and compared the identified genotypes with those obtained from leprosy patient biopsies. METHODS: We collected five replicas from each of the 30 selected reservoirs and skin lesion biopsies from 25 new leprosy cases treate...
Spatial analysis of infection by the human immunodeficiency virus among pregnan...
Holanda, Eliane Rolim de; Galvão, Marli Teresinha Gimeniz; Pedrosa, Nathália Lima; Paiva, Simone de Sousa; Almeida, Rosa Lívia Freitas de;;OBJECTIVES:;; to analyze the spatial distribution of reported cases of pregnant women infected by the human immunodeficiency virus and to identify the urban areas with greater social vulnerability to the infection among pregnant women.;;;;METHOD:;; ecological study, developed by means of spatial analysis techniques of area data. Secondary data were used from the Brazilian National Disease Notification System ...
Epidemiologia dos acidentes de trânsito em Fortaleza no período de 2004 a 2008
Almeida, Rosa Lívia Freitas deThe mortality sponsored by traffic accidents is a serious public health problem, requiring surveillance and monitoring of prevention of this disease. Traffic accidents in the world are recognized as a phenomenon of great magnitude and highly complex, representing an expression of the interaction between humans, route, vehicle and legislation. The dynamics of this relationship, in turn, finds in the Brazilian re...
Estudo ecológico sobre os possíveis determinantes socioeconômicos, demográficos...
Bezerra Filho, José Gomes; Werneck, Guilherme Loureiro; Almeida, Rosa Lívia Freitas de; Oliveira, Maria Ivoneide Veríssimo deEpidemiology has identified violence as a major worldwide public health concern. Suicide is clas- sified as violence. This study analyzes the asso- ciation between suicide and socio-demographic factors. The methodological design was ecologi- cal, using correlation techniques and backward multiple linear regression. Normality of the re- siduals in the final model was analyzed. Pro- portional mortality in relatio...