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The burden of alcohol, tobacco and others drugs among incarcerated population d...
Rolim Scholze, Alessandro; Alves, Josilene; Zamboni Berra, Thaís; Lima dos Santos, Felipe; Vieira Ramos, Antônio; Lima de Freitas, GiselleA cross-sectional study using data from the Brazilian Notifiable Diseases Information System was carried out. TB cases confirmed from 2014 to 2018 in prisons located in Paraná, Brazil, were selected. The Prais-Winsten procedure was performed to identify time trends by calculating monthly rates and the percentage of monthly variation. The Seasonal-Trend by Loess decomposition method was used to verify the time s...
Risk-prone territories for spreading tuberculosis, temporal trends and their de...
Zamboni Berra, Thaís; Vieira Ramos, Antônio; Arroyo, Luiz Henrique; Delpino, Felipe; Almeida Crispim, Juliane; Mathias Alves, YanTo identify risk-prone areas for the spread of tuberculosis, analyze spatial variation and temporal trends of the disease in these areas and identify their determinants in a high burden city. An ecological study was carried out in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil. The population was composed of pulmonary tuberculosis cases reported in the Tuberculosis Patient Control System between 2006 and 2017. Seasonal Tren...
Effectiveness and trend forecasting of tuberculosis diagnosis after the introdu...
Zamboni Berra, Thaís; Gomes, Dulce; Vieira Ramos, Antônio Carlos; Mathias Alves, Yan; Inomata Bruce, Alexandre; Arroyo, Luiz HenriqueBackground: To evaluate the effectiveness of a rapid molecular test for the detection of tuberculosis (TB) and to predict the rates of disease in a municipality of Brazil where TB is endemic. Methods: An ecological study was carried out in Ribeirão Preto-SP on a population of TB cases notified between 2006 and 2017. Monthly TB incidence rates and the average monthly percentage change (AMPC) were calculated. In ...
Temporal trends in areas at risk for concomitant tuberculosis in a hyperendemic...
Inomata Bruce, Alexandre; Zamboni Berra, Thaís; Lima dos Santos, Felipe; Mathias Alves, Yan; Limirio Souza, Ludmilla; Vieira Ramos, AntônioThis ecological study was performed in the municipality of Manaus, in northern Brazil. The population comprised cases with concomitant pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB, registered on the Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN), between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2018. For risk cluster detection, spatial and spatiotemporal scanning statistical techniques were used. The Spatial Variation in Temporal T...