Objectives: To characterize the study population, estimating the in-hospital lethality rate by state and analysing associated factors with COVID-19-related deaths. Methods: a retrospective cohort study was carried out of hospitalised children and adolescents diagnosed with COVID-19, confirmed by RT-PCR, whose outcome was death by COVID-19 or recovery, from 2020 March 1 to August 1. The data source was the Influ...
Objective. Describing the COVID-19 hospitalization in health professionals in Brazil. Methods. Serial cases descriptive study; we included the cases with illness between February 21st and April 15th, 2020; registered in Flu Surveillance Information System (SIVEP-Gripe, in Brazilian acronym). Results. From the 184 (1.76%) cases, 110 (59.8%) were female, with a median age of 44 years (min-max: 23-85). Of the 184,...
American visceral leishmaniosis (AVL) is a vectorial disease transmitted to humans from animal reservoirs. It has increased considerably in the state of São Paulo, mainly in itscentral-west region. Therefore, the calculation of the incidence under a space-timeanalysisis extremely important, enabling a comprehensive understanding of affected municipalities and the adjustment of prevention and control measures fo...
De acordo com a Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS), as helmintíases transmitidas pelo solo (Soil-transmitted helmintíases – STH) estão entre as 17 doenças tropicais negligenciadas e atingem mais de um bilhão de pessoas das regiões mais pobres do mundo. Este trabalho visou avaliar a contaminação, por parasitas, das areias das áreas de recreação infantil de parques e praças públicas do município de São Paulo. ...
A ave avestruz (Struchio camelus) é originária da África, pertencendo a família das Ratitas. Seu valor zootécnico vem crescendo especialmente na região noroeste do Estado de São Paulo. Para a realização deste trabalho, utilizamos 20 peças de avestruz (Struthio camelus), machos e fêmeas, jovens e adultos, oriundos de criatórios da região noroeste do Estado de São Paulo. Após a abertura do trato gastrintestinal, ...