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Estimativa de risco de espalhamento da COVID-19 no Brasil e o impacto no sistema de saúde e população por microrregião
(2020-03)
Esse relatório analisa o risco de importação de COVID-19 para as microrregiões brasileiras decorrente da presença de transmissão sustentada nos dois maiores centros urbanos, Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo e os efeitos de ...
Estimativa de risco de espalhamento da COVID-19 no Brasil e avaliação da vulnerabilidade socioeconômica nas microrregiões brasileiras
(2020-03)
Esse relatório atualiza a análise do risco de disseminação da COVID-19 para as microrregiões brasileiras decorrente da presença de transmissão sustentada nos dois maiores centros urbanos, Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo. Faz ...
Assessing the potential impacts of COVID-19 in Brasil: Mobility, Morbidity and Impact to the Health System
(2020-03)
The two largest Brazilian cities, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, have declared community transmission of COVID-19 on mid March, 2020. In this study we estimated the most vulnerable areas in Brazil for COVID-19, both in terms ...
Analytical surveillance
(2019)
Can zika account for the missing babies?
(Frontiers Media Sa, 2017-11-29)
The Zika virus (ZIKV) spread rapidly in Brazil in 2015 and 2016. Rio de Janeiro was among the Brazilian cities which were hit the hardest, with more that a hundred thousand confirmed cases up to the end of 2016. Given the ...
Zika in Rio de Janeiro: assessment of basic reproduction number and comparison with dengue outbreaks
(Cambridge Univ Press, 2017-06)
Zika virus infection was declared a public health emergency of international concern in February 2016 in response to the outbreak in Brazil and its suspected link with congenital anomalies. In this study, we use notification ...
Higher incidence of Zika in adult women than adult men in Rio de Janeiro suggests a significant contribution of sexual transmission from men to women
(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2016-10)
Objectives: The recent emergence of Zika in Brazil and its association with an increased rate of congenital malformations has raised concerns over its impact on the birth rate in the country. Using data on the incidence ...
Zika is not a reason for missing the Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro: response to the open letter of Dr Attaran and colleagues to Dr Margaret Chan, Director - General, WHO, on the Zika threat to the Olympic and Paralympic Games
(Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde, 2016-06-01)
Attaran and colleagues in an open letter to WHO expressed their concern about the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and the threat posed by the Zika epidemic (Attaran 2016). We agree that Zika virus ...
Ensuring successful introduction of Wolbachia in natural populations of Aedes aegypti by means of feedback control
(EMAp, 2015-03-19)
The control of the spread of dengue fever by introduction of the intracellular parasitic bacterium Wolbachia in populations of the vector Aedes aegypti, is presently one of the most promising tools for eliminating dengue, ...
Developing a framework for modeling and simulating aedes aegypti and dengue fever dynamics
(National Institute for Space Research, INPE, 2013)
Dengue fever is a challenging complex transmissible disease due to its unstable temporal and spatial dynamics. Modeling is a powerful tool to understand disease dynamics and to evaluate costs, benefits and effectiveness ...
