Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES; Schistosomiasis is a waterborne disease caused by trematodes of the genus Schistosoma. Of the most common species that parasitize humans, the most relevant are Schistosoma mansoni, Schistosoma japonicum and Schistosoma haematobium. Of these, S. mansoni is the trematode that causes schistosomiasis mansoni, being the only species found in Brazil...
ABSTRACT: Schistosomiasis is a relevant disease for public health in Brazil and Alagoas, and it is important to investigate the presence of the disease in endemic and non-endemic areas for the progress of eradicating this disease. Thus, the objective of the study was to carry out an investigation of mollusks and larvae of trematodes in an area not endemic for schistosomiasis mansoni. The study was carried out i...
Objective: To analyze aspects related to positivity for schistosomiasis in an area of low prevalence in Brazil. Methods: Cross-sectional study, carried out in the first half of 2020, where proportion of positivity was analyzed according to the number of Kato-Katz slides, the diagnostic performance of the test and the creation of a positivity estimation factor from the data of the Information from the Schistos...
Introduction: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a global public health emergency with lethality ranging from 1% to 5%. This study aimed to identify active high-risk transmission clusters of COVID-19 in Sergipe. Methods: We performed a prospective space-time analysis using confirmed cases of COVID-19 during the first 7 weeks of the outbreak in Sergipe. Results: The prospective space-time statistic d...