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Persistência da hanseníase em redes de convívio domiciliar: sobreposição de cas...
Boigny, Reagan Nzundu; Souza, Eliana Amorim de; Romanholo, Helizandra Simoneti Bianchini; Araújo, Olivia Dias de; Araújo, Telma Maria Evangelista deThe study sought to analyze the magnitude of occurrence and the sociodemographic, economic and clinical profiles of leprosy associated with household social networks (HSN), with disease overlap in cities from the states of Bahia, Piauí and Rondônia, Brazil, from 2001 to 2014. This is a cross-sectional study using primary and secondary data regarding new cases of leprosy notified to the Brazilian Information Sys...
Hanseníase e gênero no Brasil: tendências em área endêmica da região Nordeste, ...
Souza, Eliana Amorim de; Ferreira, Anderson Fuentes; Boigny, Reagan Nzundu; Alencar, Carlos Henrique; Heukelbach, JorgOBJETIVO: Analisar, segundo gênero, as tendências temporais dos coeficientes de detecção de casos novos de hanseníase na população geral e em crianças, do coeficiente de grau 2 de incapacidade física e da proporção de casos multibacilares no estado da Bahia, no período de 2001 a 2014. MÉTODOS: Estudo de série temporal baseado em dados epidemiológicos relativos à hanseníase oriundos do Sistema de Informação de A...
Leprosy and gender in Brazil: trends in an endemic area of the Northeast region...
Souza, Eliana Amorim de; Ferreira, Anderson Fuentes; Boigny, Reagan Nzundu; Alencar, Carlos Henrique; Heukelbach, JorgOBJECTIVE: To analyze, stratifield by gender, trends of the new case leprosy detection rates in the general population and in children; of grade 2 disability, and of proportion of multibacillary cases, in the state of Bahia, Brazil from 2001 to 2014. METHODS: A time series study based on leprosy data from the National Information System for Notifiable Diseases. The time trend analysis included Poisson regressio...
Padrões epidemiológicos, sociodemográficos, clínicos e operacionais da sobrepos...
Boigny, Reagan NzunduLeprosy is part of the group of chronic and neglected infectious diseases with high detection of new cases (NC) in endemic areas in Brazil, especially in the North, Northeast and Central-West regions. The expression of more than 1 case of leprosy (overlapping) in families or home-contact networks (HCN) reflects greater vulnerability and increased risk. The objective of this study was to analyze epidemiological,...
Vulnerabilidade programática no controle da hanseníase: padrões na perspectiva ...
Souza, Eliana Amorim de; Boigny, Reagan Nzundu; Ferreira, Anderson Fuentes; Alencar, Carlos Henrique; Oliveira, Maria Leide W.The aim of this study was to analyze operational indicators and time trends in leprosy control from a gender perspective in Bahia State, Brazil, from 2001 to 2014. This was a time series study based on epidemiological data on leprosy from the Brazilian National System of Diseases of Notification, using joinpoint Poisson and polynomial regression. Of the 40,054 new cases of leprosy, 47.1% of the recorded contact...
Epidemiology and spatiotemporal patterns of peprosy detection in the state of B...
Souza, Eliana Amorim de; Ferreira, Anderson Fuentes; Heukelbach, Jorg; Boigny, Reagan Nzundu; Alencar, Carlos Henrique; Ramos Júnior, Alberto NovaesThe detection of leprosy cases is distributed unequally in Brazil, with high-risk clusters mainly in the North and Northeast regions. Knowledge on epidemiology and spatiotemporal patterns of leprosy occurrence and late diagnosis in these areas is critical to improve control measures. We performed a study including all leprosy cases notified in the 417 municipalities of Bahia state, from 2001 to 2014. New case d...
Mortality related to tuberculosis-HIV/AIDS co-infection in Brazil, 2000-2011: e...
Lima, Mauricélia da Silveira; Martins-Melo, Francisco Rogerlândio; Heukelbach, Jorg; Alencar, Carlos Henrique; Boigny, Reagan NzunduCo-infection of tuberculosis (TB)-HIV/AIDS is a persistent public health problem in Brazil. This study describes epidemiological patterns and time trends of mortality related to TB-HIV/AIDS co-infection. Based on mortal - ity data from 2000-2011 (almost 12.5 million deaths), 19,815 deaths re - lated to co-infection were analyzed. The average age-adjusted mortality rate was 0.97 deaths/100,000 inhabitants. The h...