[PDF] Top 20 Epidemiology of neurocysticercosis in Brazil

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... rain in places where drainage is difficult, may influence the prevalence of Eimeria ...effect of weather on oocyst sporulation can be potentiated by extreme variations in pluviometry and ... See full document

... specificity of the blood-smear and serologic techniques, we noted that the chances of false-negative results with the blood-smear technique were high, whereas the chances of false positives were ... See full document

... importance of receiving medical care in cases of honey bee ...degree, in all the stung individuals and are caused by vasoactive components of bee venom rather than by allergic ... See full document

... rate of 100% for these questions. This speaks in favor of the internal validity of the instrument that we used to assess ...bias in our estimates due to not di- rectly measuring ... See full document

... agent of VL, its molecular biology, and antimicrobial susceptibility have been ...number of advances have also been obtained on taxonomy, genetics, molecular biology and behavior of Lutzomyia ... See full document

... To discover certain epidemiological features of these diseases which may serve as the basis for subsequently programming control measures, PAHO is coordinating a coll[r] ... See full document

... Study of the association between socio-environmental factors and the prevalence of intestinal parasitosis in the suburbs of the city of Manaus in the state of Amazonas, ... See full document

... study of the epidemiology of scorpion sting cases recorded from 2007 to 2013 in the State of Ceará, Northeastern ...database of the Health Department of Ceará. A total ... See full document

... 90% of organisms were inhibited, and percentages of Candida iso- lates with decreased susceptibilities to the five antifungal drugs ...occurred in 6 ...2 of C. guilliermondii, 1 of C. ... See full document

... level of spatial hierarchy revealed that symptomatic/infected plants of both diseases were aggregated in a group (quadrat), for all quadrat sizes and tests (index of dispersion or binary power ... See full document

... the epidemiology of malaria in Roraima, Amazon Basin in Brazil, in the years from 1991 to 1993: the predominance of plasmodium species, distribution of the blood ... See full document

... activity in our analysis, the direction of the association seemed to follow the inverse, that is, more physically active persons smoked ...prevalence of physically active individuals in this ... See full document

... The epidemiology of patients suspected of having American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in the municipality of Assis Brasil, Acre State, located in the Brazil/Peru/Bolivia tri- ... See full document

... registered in all months of the year, with higher incidence in the third trimester (n = 146; ...circumstances of the ...occurred in urban areas (n = 356; ...area of the victim’s ... See full document

... collaboration of the community continues to be essential to increase the dissemination of our scientiic production, thus contributing to the advancement of Epidemiology in ... See full document

... level of genetic diversity within HIV- 1, a classification of the pathogen into groups, subtypes and sub-subtypes was devised (Leitner et ...events of simian immunodeficiency viruses from non-human ... See full document

... A review of acute cerebrovascular accidents (CVAs) was conducted in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, in order to assess the basic epidemiology of the problem in that cit[r] ... See full document

... level. In 2000, individuals with tertiary education are distributed across 493 occupations, of which 104 are in the groups of managers and ...professionals. In 2010, individuals ... See full document

... out of 39 fishermen identiied Potamotrygon motoro as the most common species; the other 18 ...included in the ...immersion in hot water (1), urine (2), and herbs ... See full document