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| Alencar,Wong Kuen; Duarte,Paulo Schiavom; Waldman,Eliseu Alves. |
| INTRODUCTION:Survival of patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome has improved with combination antiretroviral therapy; mortality due to liver diseases, however, has also increased in these patients.OBJECTIVES:To estimate the accumulated probability of survival in human immunodeficiency virus-hepatitis C virus coinfected and non-coinfected patients and to investigate factors related to acquired immune deficiency syndrome patients' survival.METHODS:Non-concurrent cohort study using data from surveillance information systems of acquired immune deficiency syndrome patients over 13 years of age. Hepatitis C and B, human immunodeficiency virus exposure category, CD4+ T cell count, age group, schooling, race, sex, and four acquired immune deficiency... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: HIV; Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; Hepatitis viruses; Survival analysis. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702014000200150 |
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| Tauil,Márcia de Cantuária; Carvalho,Cleidiane Santos Rodrigues de; Vieira,Ataiza César; Waldman,Eliseu Alves. |
| OBJECTIVES: To analyze the behavior of meningococcal disease in the Federal District, Brazil, from 2005 to 2011, and to assess the direct impact of the meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccine. METHODS: A descriptive study of cases of meningococcal disease among residents of the Federal District. We included in the study confirmed cases of meningococcal disease reported to the local surveillance. To reduce underreporting we compared data to the Brazilian Mortality Database and the Public Health Laboratory Database. We studied sociodemographic, clinical, and pathogen-related variables. For the assessment of the impact of meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccine, which was introduced in 2010 for children under two years of age, we compared the... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Meningococcal disease; Epidemiology; Control. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702014000400379 |
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