Vital Brazil Mineiro da Campanha (1865-1950) is known for his discovery, which to this day saved thousands of lives: the specificity of antiophidic sera. This article is part of the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of Vital Brazil, in order to present and discuss their contributions to Brazilian and international Tropical Medicine, for the study of poisonings by venomous animals and the discovery of specif...
Based on the case study of the Brazilian scientific production involving Zika virus, this article aims to discuss the importance of integrating different data sources to better represent the landscape of the research, highlighting how the restriction of sources impacts the results of a bibliometric analysis. Four scientific databases of peer-reviewed literature were used to identify the scientific production of...
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil; Being distant from Brazil’s great natural diversity, from its long tradition in the study of snakebites and from the fact that it is one of the few countries which has a national information system for monitoring incidents involving venomous animals, non-Brazilian researchers face risks wh...
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil; Being distant from Brazil’s great natural diversity, from its long tradition in the study of snakebites and from the fact that it is one of the few countries which has a national information system for monitoring incidents involving venomous animals, non-Brazilian researchers face risks wh...
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Informação Científica e Tecnológica. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.; Este trabalho apresenta o perfil das intoxicações por agrotóxicos, estes separados por agrotóxicos de uso agrícola, agrotóxicos de uso doméstico, produtos veterinários e raticidas, a partir da análise da base de dados do Sistema Nacional de Informações Tóxico-Farmacológicas (SINITOX), para o período de 1999 a 2003...