Background Leptospirosis has become an urban health problem as slum settlements have
expanded worldwide. Efforts to identify interventions for urban leptospirosis have been …

Resumo PELISSARI, Daniele Maria; MAIA-ELKHOURY, Ana Nilce Silveira; ARSKY, Maria
de Lourdes Nobre Simões e NUNES, Marília Lavocat. Revisão sistemática dos fatores …

Leptospirosis is a global zoonotic disease that the transmission is driven by complex
geographical and temporal variation in demographics, animal hosts and socioecological …

Background Leptospirosis, a spirochaetal zoonotic disease, is the cause of epidemics
associated with high mortality in urban slum communities. Infection with pathogenic …

Leptospirosis has emerged as an important urban health problem as slum settlements have
expanded worldwide. Yet the dynamics of the environmentally transmitted Leptospira …

Objective To analyse the epidemiological profile of 488 cases of leptospirosis in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil between 1997 and 2002, using a variety of methods of spatial epidemiology …

Although leptospirosis—a bacterial disease transmitted through contact with rodents' urine—
may be a consequence of many environmental factors, its occurrence may increase in …

Objetivo: Analisar a distribuição de casos e óbitos humanos por leptospirose, segundo
características sociodemográficas, epidemiológicas, clínicas, tempo de atendimento …

Most vector-borne diseases exhibit a distinct seasonal pattern, which clearly suggests that
they are weather sensitive. Rainfall, temperature, and other climate variables affect in many …

Abstract The Serra das Pipocas Greenstone Belt is one of the rare Paleoproterozoic
greenstone belts within the Borborema Province. It is on the west border of the Archean …