Dengue epidemic hits Rio de JaneiroMICHAEL ASTOR
Maciel also cited the circulation of four dengue virus serotypes at the same time, one of which authorities had not seen in 15 years. In Rio, more than 80% of mosquito breeding sites are located in residential properties, health officials say. So, efforts to combat dengue must...
Since Rio de Janeiro declared a public health emergency after an outbreak of dengue fever last month, the city has ramped up testing capacities, opened up a dozen dengue health centers and trained medical staff to attend to the ever-growing needs of its
Dengue virus type 3 was isolated for the first time in the country as an indigenous case from a 40 year-old woman presenting signs and symptoms of a classical dengue fever in the municipality of Nova Iguau, State of Rio de Janeiro. This serotype has been associated with dengue haemorrhagic...
In 2007-2008, the city of Rio de Janeiro underwent an epidemiological change, with increases in the incidence in children and in severe forms of dengue. To describe the clinical profile and spatial distribution of dengue we performed an ecological study based on dengue surveillance data using the...
UERJ – Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Recently, there has been a growing interest in the Agent-oriented paradigm to cope with the needs imposed by nowadays complex and networked systems. Develo... A Padua,A Oliveira,LM Cysneiros,......
Caring for people during mass casualty – the dengue case in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Although the nurse's role during a disaster, or a epidemy as dengue, may vary, the nursing care focuses on essential care from a perspective of what is bes... ICD Cruz - 《Online Brazilian Journal of ...
SHORT COMMUNICATION - Dengue Virus Type 3 Isolation from Aedes aegypti in the Municipality of Nova Iguaçu, State of Rio de Janeiro In a prospective field study conducted from July 2000 to June 2001, adult Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus mosquitoes were caught from the municipality of ... ...
Brazil, which is hyperendemic for dengue virus (DENV), has had recent Zika (ZIKV) and (CHIKV) Chikungunya virus outbreaks. Since March 2016, CHIKV is the arbovirus infection most frequently diagnosed in Rio de Janeiro. In the analysis of 1835 syndromic patients, screened by real time RT-...
and colleagues analyzed data and samples from a total of 364patientswho presented with an acute skin rash from January through July 2015. The first challenge the researchers faced was the accurate diagnosis of ZIKV disease. ZIKV is a relative of both Dengue and Chikungunya virus, and the three...