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Correcting haemoglobin cut-offs to define anaemia in high-altitude pregnant women in Peru reduces adverse perinatal outcomes
(Springer, 2014)
PURPOSE: To determine if correction of cut-offs of haemoglobin levels to define anaemia at high altitudes affects rates of adverse perinatal outcomes. METHODS: Data were obtained from 161,909 mothers and newborns whose ...
HIV infection, hepatitis B and C and syphilis in homeless people, in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil
(Revista De Saude PublicaSao PauloBrasil, 2007)
Epidemiology of disappearing Plasmodium vivax malaria: a case study in rural Amazonia
(Public Library of Science, 2014)
Background: New frontier settlements across the Amazon Basin pose a major challenge for malaria elimination in Brazil. Here we describe the epidemiology of malaria during the early phases of occupation of farming settlements ...
Reemerging diseases in Brazil: sociodemographic and epidemiological characteristics of syphilis and its under-reporting
(Soc Brasileira Medicina Tropical, 2019-01-01)
Introduction: This paper analyzed sociodemographic and epidemiological data of individuals with syphilis as well as the compulsory reporting of the disease, for being a reemerging disease in Brazil. Methods: General ...
Quality assurance for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Latin American and Caribbean countries, 2013-2015
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2018)
OBJECTIVES: A Neisseria gonorrhoeae antimicrobial susceptibility quality control comparison programme was re-established in Latin America and the Caribbean to ensure antimicrobial susceptibility data produced from the ...
Assessment of an automated capillary system for Plasmodium vivax microsatellite genotyping
(BioMed Central, 2015)
BACKGROUND: Several platforms have been used to generate the primary data for microsatellite analysis of malaria parasite genotypes. Each has relative advantages but share a limitation of being time- and cost-intensive. A ...
A Controlled Study of Tuberculosis Diagnosis in HIV-Infected and Uninfected Children in Peru
(Public Library of Science, 2015)
BACKGROUND: Diagnosing tuberculosis in children is challenging because specimens are difficult to obtain and contain low tuberculosis concentrations, especially with HIV-coinfection. Few studies included well-controls so ...
Dengue fever: a post-epidemic sero-epidemiological survey in an urban setting at a northwestern county of S. Paulo State - Brazil
(Revista De Saude PublicaSao PauloBrasil, 1999)
Monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater as an epidemiological surveillance tool in Mendoza, Argentina
(Elsevier, 2021-11)
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is an emerging tool that gives temporal and spatial information on a population's health status. Here, we report the epidemiological dynamics of a population of ~1.2 million residents ...