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COVID-Inconfidentes - SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in two Brazilian urban areas du...
Meireles, Adriana Lucia; Lourenção, Luciano Garcia; Menezes Junior, Luiz Antônio Alves de; Coletro, Hillary Nascimento; Justiniano, Irene Carolina SousaBackground: A population study is an important tool that can be used to understand the actual epidemiological scenario of the Covid-19 in different territories, identify its magnitude, understand its transmission dynamics, and its demographic, geographical, and social distribution. Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the population of two Braz...
Prevalence of schistosomiasis mansoni in indigenous Maxakali villages, Minas Ge...
Nacife, Maria Beatriz Pena e Silva Leite; Siqueira, Liliane Maria Vidal; Martins, Rafael; Vianna, Valeska Natiely; Barbosa, Keila FurbinoIntestinal parasitic infections are a common health problem among Amerindian populations and schistosomiasis represents one of the most prevalent diseases in Maxakali people. The Kato-Katz is the diagnostic method recommended by WHO for epidemiological studies; however, one of the technique’s limitations is the failure to detect parasites in individuals with low parasite load. The aim of this study was to estab...
ANÁLISE ESPACIAL DOS CASOS DE ENTEROPARASITAS EM OURO PRETO, ENTRE 1995 E 2000 ...
Fonseca, Elivelton da Silva; Carvalho, Gabriela Lana Xavier de; Nicolato, Roney Luiz de Carvalho; Machado-Coelho, George Luiz LinsO estudo buscou compreender o padrão da distribuição espacial de enteroparasitoses em Ouro Preto-MG, com recursos de geoprocessamento, no apoio à decisão. O resultado da análise espacial é o valor estimado em cada célula, que é uma probabilidade de encontrar um evento, ponderada pela distância dos eventos observados. As geohelmintoses estudadas compreendem os seguintes parasitos: Strongyloides stercoralis, Asca...
Demographic and Socioeconomic inequalities between Whites and Indigenous in Brazil
Dias Júnior, Cláudio Santiago; Verona, Ana Paula de Andrade; Pena, João Luiz; Machado-Coelho, George Luiz LinsUsing data from the 2000 Brazilian Demographic Census of Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the fifteen municipalities with the highest percentage of indigenous people were analyzed. The fact of indigenous people represents a significant portion of total population in these fifteen municipalities does not mean they have demographic and socioeconomic conditions similar to those of white popu...
Seroprevalence of Chagas disease in schoolchildren from two municipalities of J...
Borges, Jaila Dias; Assis, Girley Francisco Machado de; Gomes, Lizziani Vasconcelos; Dias, João Carlos Pinto; Pinto, Ildikô Delkim MirandaSix years after the beginning of the epidemiological surveillance of Chagas disease in Berilo and José Gonçalves de Minas, Jequitinhonha Valley, MG, Brazil, a serological inquiry was performed to observe whether the transmission of this endemy was occurring in this area. A randomized sample of 1,412 children seven to 14 years old, was screened. Six asymptomatic children were found to be positive, leading to 0.4...