Browsing Documentos Indexados pela Web of Science by Subject "Epidemiologia"

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Can zika account for the missing babies?

Coelho, Flávio Codeço; Armstrong, Margaret; Saraceni, Valeria; Lemos, Cristina
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 ...
Estimating the attack ratio of dengue epidemics under time-varying force of infection using aggregated notification data

Coelho, Flávio Codeço; Carvalho, Luiz Max de
2015-12-17

Quantifying the attack ratio of disease is key to epidemiological inference and public health planning. For multi-serotype pathogens, however, different levels of serotype-specific immunity make it difficult to assess the ...