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Provedor de dados: | 80
País: | Brazil
Título: | An update on the epidemiological situation of spotted fever in Brazil
Autores: | Oliveira,Stefan Vilges de; Guimarães,Jessica Noronha; Reckziegel,Guilherme Carneiro; Neves,Bidiah Mariano da Costa; Araújo-Vilges,Keline Medeiros de; Fonseca,Lidsy Ximenes; Pinna,Fernanda Voietta; Pereira,Simone Valéria Costa; Caldas,Eduardo Pacheco de; Gazeta,Gilberto Salles; Gurgel-Gonçalves,Rodrigo.
Data: | 2016-01-01
Ano: | 2016
Palavras-chave: | Rickettsial diseases; Epidemiology; Information system; Tick-borne disease.
Resumo: | Abstract  Background  Spotted fever is a tick-borne rickettsial disease. In Brazil, its notification to the Ministry of Health is compulsory. Since 2007, cases of spotted fever have been integrated to the Notifiable Diseases Information System, and epidemiological analyzes are part of the routines on surveillance programs.  Methods  This descriptive study updates epidemiological information on cases of spotted fever registered in Brazil between 2007 and 2015.  Results  In Brazil, 17,117 suspected cases of the disease were reported and 1,245 were confirmed in 12 states, mainly in São Paulo (550, 44.2 %) and Santa Catarina (276, 22.2 %). No geographic information was registered for 132 cases (10.6 %). Most of the infected people were men (70.9 %), mainly in rural areas (539, 43.3 %), who had contact with ticks (72.7 %). A higher number of suspected cases were registered between 2011 and 2015, but the number of confirmed cases and the incidence were relatively low. Moreover, 411 deaths were registered between 2007 and 2015, mainly in the southeastern region of the country, where the case-fatality rate was 55 %. Lack of proper filling of important fields of notification forms was also observed.  Conclusions  The results showed expansion of suspected cases of spotted fever and high case-fatality rates, which could be related to diagnostic difficulties and lack of prompt treatment. These factors may comprise limitations to the epidemiological surveillance system in Brazil, hence improvement of notification and investigation are crucial to reduce morbidity and mortality due to spotted fever in Brazil.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1678-91992016000100315
Editor: | Centro de Estudos de Venenos e Animais Peçonhentos
Relação: | 10.1186/s40409-016-0077-4
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases  v.22 2016
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess