Feline sporotrichosis
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چکیده
Over the past two decades, many Brazilian cities have been reporting an increasing incidence and spread of feline sporotrichosis. The disease is neglected, little known about causal processes underlying its epidemic occurrence. This study characterized spatiotemporal dynamics sporotrichosis in Guarulhos. Moreover, we proposed tested a explanation for occurrence zoonotic transmission, giving key role to social vulnerability. A direct acyclic graph represented explanation, while Bayesian spatial models supported test as well attribution risk-based priority index census tracts city. Between 2011 2017, grew exponentially increased. model findings showed dose-response pattern between vulnerability was not strictly monotonic, so some received higher than others with According our there will be effective prevention long inequities continue imposing precarious livelihoods.
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عنوان ژورنال: Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Research and Animal Science
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1678-4456', '1413-9596']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1678-4456.bjvras.2021.188291