Neurocysticercosis in Paraiba, northeast Brazil: an endemic area?

Leprosy and gender in Brazil: trends in an endemic area of the Northeast region, 2001–2014

OBJECTIVE To analyze, stratifield by gender, trends of the new case leprosy detection rates in the general population and in children; of grade 2 disability, and of proportion of multibacillary cases, in the state of Bahia, Brazil from 2001 to 2014. METHODS A time series study based on leprosy data from the National Information System for Notifiable Diseases. The time trend analysis included Po...

[Hip fracture incidence in an urban area in Northeast Brazil].

Hip fractures involve high morbidity and mortality and extensive treatment costs and are thus considered an important public health issue. Hip fracture incidence varies greatly between countries and even between cities in the same region. This study aimed to determine hip fracture incidence in Fortaleza, Ceará State, Brazil. Hip fracture cases were identified prospectively in patients aged 45 a...

IgE and IgG4 antibodies in subjects reinfected with Schistosoma mansoni in an endemic area of northeast Brazil.

Malaria outbreaks in a non-endemic area of Brazil, 2005.

In March 2005, a resident of the municipality of Monte Alegre de Minas, State of Minas Gerais, without any history of traveling to endemic areas for malaria, was diagnosed with Plasmodium vivax infection and local mosquito-borne transmission was suspected. The epidemiological investigation identified another 10 cases with local transmission and all of them were related to the imported malaria c...

Socioeconomic determinants of schistosomiasis in an urban area in the Northeast of Brazil.

OBJECTIVE To identify and quantify the socioeconomic determinants of schistosomiasis in the urban section of São Lourenço da Mata, a town in the Northeast of Brazil. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out in 1988 to measure the prevalence of schistosomiasis in São Lourenço da Mata among individuals aged 10-25 years and to estimate the socioeconomic characteristics of the households o...