Celina Maria Turchi Martelli

TL;DR: The first multicountry estimates of the direct and indirect costs of dengue cases in eight American and Asian countries using a common protocol are presented, showing that Dengue imposes substantial costs on both the health sector and the overall economy.

TL;DR: There is a wide and overlapping spectrum of neurological manifestations caused by Zika or chikungunya mono-infection and by dual infections, and the possible increased risk of acute cerebrovascular disease in patients with dual infection merits further investigation.

TL;DR: A population-based survey to provide information on the prevalence of hepatitis viral infection and the pattern of risk factors was carried out in the urban population of all Brazilian state capitals and the Federal District between 2005 and 2009, and seems to be a viable way of differentiating between distinct epidemiological patterns of hepatitis A, B and C.

TL;DR: The ARIMA models may be considered a baseline for the time series analysis of dengue incidence before the Zika epidemic and forecast for 2015 in two Brazilian cities, Recife and Goiania.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the COVID-19 pandemic has been most severe in the poorest regions of Brazil, such as the states of the Northeast Region, and that the response was a significant increase in social distancing, especially in Ceara and Pernambuco, a decline in the reproduction rate, and a separation of the curve of observed cases versus expected cases if the nonpharmacological interventions had not been implemented in all states.