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Challenges and emerging perspectives of an international SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological surveillance in wastewater
(2021-01-01)
SARS-CoV-2 is a new type of coronavirus capable to infect humans and cause the severe acute respiratory syndrome COVID-19, a disease that has been causing huge impacts across the Earth. COVID-19 patients, including mild, ...
Review of Procedures and Challenges Associated with an Epidemiological Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater
(Soc Brasileira Quimica, 2022-03-31)
COVID-19 patients, including asymptomatic, pre-symptomatic and mild cases, were frequently seen to contain in feces and urine samples particles of SARS-CoV-2. Hence, studies to detect the new coronavirus in residual water, ...
Diabetes Mellitus in Peru
(Levy Library Press, 2015)
BACKGROUND: Peru is an upper medium-income developing country with an increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, including diabetes. OBJECTIVE: To review and describe the epidemiology, drivers, and diabetes care plan in ...
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 ...
Epidemiological intelligence as a model of organization in health
(ABRASCORIO DE JANEIRO, 2012)
The concept of epidemiological intelligence, as a construction of information societies, goes beyond monitoring a list of diseases and the ability to elicit rapid responses. The concept should consider the complexity of ...
Associations between mental disorders and subsequent onset of hypertension
(Elsevier, 2014)
BACKGROUND: Previous work has suggested significant associations between various psychological symptoms (e.g., depression, anxiety, anger, alcohol abuse) and hypertension. However, the presence and extent of associations ...
Spatio-temporal co-occurrence of hotspots of tuberculosis, poverty and air pollution in Lima, Peru
(BioMed Central, 2020)
Growing evidence suggests pollution and other environmental factors have a role in the development of tuberculosis (TB), however, such studies have never been conducted in Peru. Considering the association between air ...