• The need for fast-track, high-quality and low-cost studies about the role of the BCG vaccine in the fight against COVID-19. 

  Pereira, Marcos; Paixão, Enny; Trajman, Anete; Souza, Ramon Andrade de; Natividade, Marcio Santos da; Pescarini, Julia M.; Pereira, Susan Martins; Barreto, Florisneide Rodrigues; Ximenes, Ricardo; Dalcomo, Margareth; Ichihara, Maria Yury; Nunes, Ceuci; Barral-Netto, Manoel; Barreto, Maurício Lima (Brasil, 2020-07-11)

  Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination is routine and near-universal in many low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). It has been suggested that BCG can have a protective effect on COVID-19 morbidity and mortality. ...
• Previous BCG vaccination is associated with less severe clinical progression of COVID-19. 

  Pereira, Susan Martins; Barreto, Florisneide Rodrigues; Souza, Ramon Andrade de; Santos, Carlos Antonio de Souza Teles; Pereira, Marcos; Paixão, Enny Santos da; Lima, Carla Cristina Oliveira de Jesus; Natividade, Marcio Santos da; Lindoso, Ana Angélica Bulcão Portela; Fernandes, Eder Gatti; Campelo Junior, Evonio Barros; Pescarini, Julia Moreira; Andrade, Kaio Vinicius Freitas de; Souza, Fernanda Mattos de; Britto, Elisangela Alves de; Nunes, Ceuci; Ichihara, Maria Yuri; Dalcolmo, Margareth; Trajman, Anete; Barral‑Netto, Manoel; Abubakar, Ibrahim; Barreto, Mauricio Lima; Ximenes, Ricardo Arraes de Alencar; Rodrigues, Laura Cunha (Brasil, 2023-04-13)

  Background BCG vaccination, originally used to prevent tuberculosis, is known to “train” the immune system to improve defence against viral respiratory infections. We investigated whether a previous BCG vaccination is ...
• Time to treatment and severity of snake envenoming in Brazil 

  Mise, Yukari Figueroa; Lira-da-Silva, Rejâne Maria; Carvalho, Fernando Martins (Brasil, 2018)

  Objective. To analyze the relationship between time to treatment and severity of snakebite envenomation in Brazil. Methods. This case-series retrospective study analyzed 144 251 snakebite cases in Brazil between 2007 and ...
• Por uma atenção diferenciada e menos desigual: o caso do Distrito Sanitário Especial Indígena da Bahia 

  Mota, Sara Emanuela de Carvalho; Nunes, Mônica (Brasil, 2018)

  Nesse estudo buscou-se conhecer os significados do princípio da “atenção diferenciada” por meio da análise dos enunciados e da observação das práticas de gestores do Subsistema de Atenção à Saúde dos Povos Indígenas na ...
• Mortalidad por mesotelioma en Argentina, 1980-2013. 

  Trotta, Andrés; Santana, Vilma Sousa; Alazraqui, Marcio (Universidad Nacional de LanúsBrasil, 2017)

  Se estimó la tasa de mortalidad por mesotelioma y su distribución sociodemográfica y temporal en Argentina para el período 1980-2013 con datos del Sistema de Estadísticas Vitales del Ministerio de Salud de la Nación. Se ...
• Underreporting of congenital syphilis as a cause of fetal and infant deaths in northeastern Brazil. 

  Cardoso, Ana Rita Paulo; Araujo, Maria Alix Leite; Andrade, Roumayne Fernandes Vieira; Saraceni, Valeria; Miranda, Angelica E.; Dourado, Maria Inês Costa (Brasil, 2016-12-12)

  INTRODUCTION: Of all syphilis-related pregnancy outcomes, fetal death is certainly the most common one, being directly related to the availability, accessibility and quality of prenatal care. The present study aimed to ...
• Time lags between exanthematous illness attributed to Zika Virus, Guillain-Barré Syndrome, and Microcephaly, Salvador, Brazil. 

  Paploski, Igor A.D.; Prates, Ana Paula P.B.; Cardoso, Cristiane W.; Kikut, Mariana; Silva, Monaise Madalena Oliveira e; Waller, Lance A.; Reis, Mitermayer G.; Kitron, Uriel; Ribeiro, Guilherme S. (Brasil, 2017-06-21)

  Zika virus infection emerged as a public health emergency after increasing evidence for its association with neurologic disorders and congenital malformations. In Salvador, Brazil, outbreaks of acute exanthematous illness ...
• The effect of the Family Health Strategy on usual source of care in Brazil: data from the 2013 National Health Survey (PNS 2013). 

  Dourado, Inês; Medina, Maria Guadalupe; Aquino, Rosana (2016)

  BACKGROUND: A usual source of care (USC) has been conceptualized as having a health provider or place available for patients to consult when sick or in need of medical care. Having a USC is a means to achieve longitudinality ...
• Storm drains as larval development and adult resting sites for Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in Salvador, Brazil. 

  Paploski, Igor Adolfo Dexheimer; Rodrigues, Moreno S.; Mugabe, Vánio André; Kikuti, Mariana; Tavares, Aline S.; Reis, Mitermayer Galvão; Kitron, Uriel; Ribeiro, Guilherme Sousa (Brasil, 2017-06-20)

  Background: Dengue (DENV), Chikungunya (CHIKV), Zika (ZIKV), as well as yellow fever (YFV) viruses are transmitted to humans by Aedes spp. females. In Salvador, the largest urban center in north-eastern Brazil, the four ...
• Spatiotemporal determinants of urban leptospirosis transmission: four-year prospective cohort study of slum residents in Brazil. 

  Hagan, José E.; Moraga, Paula; Costa, Federico; Capian, Nicolas; Ribeiro, Guilherme S. et al. (Brasil, 2016)

  Background: Rat-borne leptospirosis is an emerging zoonotic disease in urban slum settlements for which there are no adequate control measures. The challenge in elucidating risk factors and informing approaches for prevention ...
• Open access signal functions for measuring the ability of health facilities to provide abortion services: an illustrative analysis using a health facility census in Zambia. 

  Campbell, Oona M. R.; Aquino, Estela M. L.; Vwalika, Bellington; Gabrysch, Sabine (Brasil, 2017-06-19)

  BACKGROUND: Annually, around 44 million abortions are induced worldwide. Safe termination of pregnancy (TOP) services can reduce maternal mortality, but induced abortion is illegal or severely restricted in many countries. ...
• Meningococcal Carriage among Adolescents after Mass Meningococcal C Conjugate Vaccination Campaigns in Salvador, Brazil. 

  Nunes, Amelia Maria Pithon Borges; Ribeiro, Guilherme Sousa; Ferreira, Italo Eustaquio, et al. (Brasil, 2016)

  Neisseria meningitidis is a commensal bacterium of the human nasopharynx. In rare cases, it penetrates the mucosa, entering the blood stream and causing various forms of disease. Meningococcal conjugate vaccines can prevent ...
• Influenza-like illness in an urban community of Salvador, Brazil: incidence, seasonality and risk factors. 

  Carlos R. Oliveira, Carlos R.; Costa, Gisela S. R.; Paploski, Igor A. D.; Kikuti, Mariana; Kasper, Amelia M.; Silva, Monaise Madalena Oliveira e; Tavares, Aline S.; Cruz, Jaqueline S.; Queiroz, Tássia L.; Lima, Helena C. A. V.; Calcagno, Juan; Reis, Mitermayer G.; Weinberger, Daniel M.; Shapiro, Eugene D.; Ko, Albert I.; Ribeiro, Guilherme S. (Brasil, 2016)

  Background: Our understanding of the epidemiology of influenza is limited in tropical regions, which in turn has hampered identifying optimal region-specific policy to diminish disease burden. Influenza-like illness (ILI) ...
• Factors associated with nutritional outcomes in the mother–child dyad: a population-based cross-sectional study. 

  Géa-Horta, Tatiane; Silva, Rita de Cássia Ribeiro; Fiaccone, Rosemeire Leovigildo; Barreto, Maurício Lima; Velásquez-Meléndez, Gustavo (Brasil, 2017-06-06)

  Objective: To estimate factors associated with double burden of nutritional outcomes in the mother–child dyad at the household level (child stunting and/or maternal overweight). Design: Cross-sectional study using the ...
• End TB strategy: the need to reduce risk inequalities. 

  Gomes, M. Gabriela M.; Barreto, Maurício L.; Glaziou, Philippe; Medley, Graham F.; Rodrigues, Laura C.; Wallinga, Jacco, et al. (Brasil, 2016)

  Background: Diseases occur in populations whose individuals differ in essential characteristics, such as exposure to the causative agent, susceptibility given exposure, and infectiousness upon infection in the case of ...
• Effects of poor hygiene on cytokine phenotypes in children in the tropics. 

  Figueiredo, C. A.; Amorim, L. D.; Vaca-Martínez, Gioconda Maritza; Chico, Martha E.; Campos, A. C.; Barreto, Mauricio L.; et al. (Brasil, 2016)

  We describe immune phenotypes (innate and adaptive cytokines) according to environmental exposure using latent class analysis. A total of 310 schoolchildren living in Ecuador were assayed for spontaneous cytokine production ...
• Effectiveness of the treatment of helminth infections ( S. mansoni , Ancylostomidae , T. trichiura , A. lumbricoides ) on hemoglobin concentration in school-children and adolescents. 

  Brito, Luciara l.; Barreto, Maurício l.; Silva, Rita de Cássia R.; Assis, Ana Marlúcia o., et al. (Brasil, 2016)

  Background: Anemia remains a leading cause of morbidity in young children in developing countries. Objective: In order to investigate the increase in hemoglobin concentration in individuals treated for helminth infections ...
• Association between perceived neighbourhood characteristics, physical activity and diet quality: results of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) 

  Chor, Dóra; Cardoso, Letícia Oliveira; Nobre, Aline Araújo; Griep, Rosane Härter; Fonseca, Maria de Jesus Mendes; Giatti, Luana; Bensenor, Isabela Judith Martins; Molina, Maria del Carmen Bisi; Aquino, Estela M. L., et al. (Brasil, 2016)

  Background: The study explores associations between perceived neighbourhood characteristics, physical activity and diet quality, which in Latin America and Brazil have been scarcely studied and with inconsistent results. ...
• Applied immuno-epidemiological research: an approach for integrating existing knowledge into the statistical analysis of multiple immune markers 

  Genser, Bernd; Fischer, Joachim E.; Figueiredo, Camila A.; Alcântara-Neves, Neuza Maria; Barreto, Mauricio L.; Philip J. Cooper, Philip J. Cooper, et al. (Brasil, 2016)

  Background: Immunologists often measure several correlated immunological markers, such as concentrations of different cytokines produced by different immune cells and/or measured under different conditions, to draw insights ...
• Agriculture and snakebite in Bahia, Brazil: an ecological study. 

  Mise, Yukari Figueroa; Lira-da-Silva, Rejâne Maria; Carvalho, Fernando Martins (Brasil, 2017-06-05)

  This study investigated the correlation between the incidence of snakebite and indicators of agricultural development in municipal districts of the State of Bahia, Brazil. An ecological study was conducted with the 27,347 ...

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