Introduction: COVID-19 broke out in Wuhan in China in December 2019, soon reached pandemic level causing thousands of deaths worldwide. It presents mostly mild flu cases; however, it can evolve into a severe respiratory syndrome that is responsible for hospitalizations and deaths. Objective: To describe the epidemiological and spatial profile of confirmed cases of influenza-like syndrome (GB) by COVID-19 in the...
INTRODUCTION: The Mycobacteriaceae family is formed by the genus Mycobacterium and four new genera. Noteworthy are the species of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (CMTB) that cause tuberculosis (TB), the species collectively called Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) that cause mycobacteriosis, and the causative agent of leprosy, M. leprae. Studies conducted in Sobral, Ceará, found several species of triat...
This work was supported by Funda??o Cearense de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico - FUNCAP (grant N? 178638234); and the Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001.; Universidade Federal do Cear?. Faculdade de Medicina. Departamento de Patologia e Medicina Legal. Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.; Minist?rio da Sa?de. Secretaria de Vigil?ncia em Sa?de. I...
In Fortaleza, the capital of Ceara State, Brazil, the detection rate of tuberculosis (TB) in 2018 was 65.5/100,000 inhabitants with a cure rate of 59.1%, which is higher than the country average. This study investigated the risk factors associated with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) and identified the drug-resistance phenotype and resistance-conferring mutations. The geographic distribution of DR-TB in For...
Universidade Federal Cear?. Faculdade de Medicina. Departamento de Cirurgia e Maternidade Escola Assis Chateaubriand. Fortaleza, CE, Brasil.; Universidade Federal Cear?. Faculdade de Medicina. Departamento de Cirurgia e Maternidade Escola Assis Chateaubriand. Fortaleza, CE, Brasil.; Universidade Federal Cear?. Faculdade de Medicina. Departamento de Patologia e Medicina Legal. Fortaleza, CE, Brasil.; Universidad...