Phlebotomine sand flies play a crucial role in both human and veterinary medicine, acting as vectors for Leishmania parasites and most known phleboviruses. In Portugal, the REVIVE program, a comprehensive national surveillance network under the Ministry of Health, has included sand fly surveys since 2016. REVIVE aims to identify existing sand fly species in the country, determine which pathogens are circulating...
O programa REVIVE (Rede de Vigilância de Vetores) resulta de colaboração entre a Direção-Geral da Saúde, as Administrações Regionais de Saúde do Algarve, Alentejo, Centro, Lisboa e Vale do Tejo e Norte, a Direção Regional da Saúde da Madeira, a Direção Regional da Saúde dos Açores e o Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge. No âmbito do REVIVE é realizada a vigilância entomológica, a nível nacional, d...
As carraças são um dos vetores mais importantes de agentes patogénicos para o Homem, com impacto crescente em saúde pública em todo o mundo. Os agentes infeciosos transmitidos por carraças incluem vírus, como o vírus da encefalite transmitida por carraças e da febre hemorrágica Crimeia-Congo, bactérias, tais como os agentes etiológicos da borreliose de Lyme, febre escaro nodular, outras rickettsioses e anaplasm...
An exploratory analysis was performed, trends of both delays were studied, and 36 months forecasts were generated. We used the permutation test to test differences between groups and the Seasonal and Trend decomposition using Loess (STL) method and Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) models for forecasting for both Health and Patient delays. We used data from notified PTB cases in mainland Portugal...
Land Surface Temperature (LST) is increasingly important for various studies assessing land surface conditions, e.g., studies of urban climate, evapotranspiration, and vegetation stress. The Landsat series of satellites have the potential to provide LST estimates at a high spatial resolution, which is particularly appropriate for local or small-scale studies. Numerous studies have proposed LST retrieval algorit...
ABSTRACT - Introduction: Since December 2019, more than 925,000 cases of COVID-19 have been reported worldwide, 8,251 cases in Portugal by the end of March. Previous studies related to the SARS pandemic showed a decrease up to 80% in the emergency care episodes. Hence, the objective of this study is to analyze the use of emergency services during the first pandemic month, compared to historical records. Methods...
Introdução: A doença celíaca é uma doença autoimune que se traduz numa sensibilidade alimentar crónica ao glúten. A dieta isenta de glúten é o único tratamento existente para a patologia, no entanto, tem sido questionada a adequação nutricional da dieta isenta de glúten e do seu impacto nos parâmetros antropométricos das crianças com doença celíaca, podendo conduzir a desiquilibrios nutricionais. Objetivo: O ob...
Currently we are witnessing a huge concern of society with the parameters of comfort of the buildings and the energetic consumptions. It is known that there is a huge consumption of non-renewable sources of energy. Thus, it is urgent to develop and explore ways to take advantage of renewable sources of energy by improving the energy efficiency of buildings. The mortars with incorporation of phase change materia...