FEAD: The Field Epidemiology Abstract Database

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FEAD: The Field Epidemiology Abstract Database

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    Brote de COVID-19 en institución educativa residencial - Paraguay, 2021

    Fátima Rojas, Lorena Romero, Sandra-Fabiola Ocampos-Ojeda, Adriana Benítez, Rosa Galeano, Malvina Páez
    Antecedentes:
    Espacios cerrados y compartidos como las residencias escolares favorecen la transmisión del virus SARS-CoV2 debido a que un enfermo puede producir una gran cantidad de pequeñas...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Other
    • Paraguay

    Spatial analysis of dengue in two endemic departments of Colombia: Antioquia and Caldas, 2015-2017

    Paola Elena León Velasco, Catalina Marcelo, Jairo Gómez, Oscar Eduardo Pacheco Garcia
    Background:
    The World Health Organization states that dengue lethality should not exceed the 2% threshold since it is 98% preventable, when preventive activities of basic environmental sanitation...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Vector-borne
    • Colombia

    Monitoreo de Twitter en la vigilancia epidemiológica de COVID-19, en la Ciudad de México, 2020-2021.

    Ana De la Garza Barroso, Alan García Zambrano, Vanessa Dávila Conn
    Antecedentes:
    Las redes sociales pueden servir como fuente de datos para la inteligencia epidemiológica, ya que pueden proporcionar datos en tiempo real. El objetivo de este estudio es...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Other
    • Public health surveillance
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Mexico

    Scurvy Outbreak Among Male Inmates in a Large Penitentiary in Ceará State, Northeast of Brazil, 2019-2020

    Leonardo Freitas, Fernanda Camelo, Maria Julia Borges, Francisca Aline Coelho, Ricristhi Gomes, Danniely Carolinne Soares da Silva Roberta Oliveira, Maria Dolores Fernandes, Magda Almeida, Marcio Henrique Garcia, Elizabeth David dos Santos
    Background:
    A large male penitentiary in Ceará, Brazil, reported cases of an unknown disease. The main diagnostic hypotheses were deep vein thrombosis (DVT), filariasis, leptospirosis, and scurvy...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Other
    • Brazil

    Alertómetro: Epidemic intelligence tool during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico

    Noé Hernández Valdivia, Nilza Aslim Rojas Arroyo, Ammy Anais Pastrana Zapata, José Luis Alomía Zegarra
    Background:
    The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) constitutes the first pandemic in history in which technology and social networks are having a massive use to keep people safe, informed,...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Other
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Public health surveillance
    • Mexico

    Prevalencia y factores de riesgo asociados a pandemia COVID-19 en la Provincia Cusco, junio-2020

    Alex Jaramillo, Deisy Paredes, Ana Moncada, Grover Quispe, Zayda Herrera, Pablo Grajeda
    Antecedentes:
    El 13 de marzo-2020 se identificó el primer caso COVID-19 en la ciudad del Cusco. Se realizó intervención integral basada en rastreo y aislamiento de casos, y cuarentena de...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Peru

    COVID-19 outbreak in Amazon: a challenge for public health surveillance in Colombia

    Luis Antonio Alvarado Cabrera, Claudia Marcela Muñoz, Olga Esther Bellido Cuéllar
    Background:
    The highest Covid-19 incidence rates in the country were registered in Leticia with 2,014 cases per 100.000 inhabitants up to epidemiological week 19. To characterize the outbreak, to...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Colombia

    COVID-19 outbreak study in San Andrés Islands, September, 2020

    Edna Carolina Avila Villabona, Olga Maritza Berrio Pérez, Mayerly Martínez Garavito, Oscar Eduardo Pacheco Garcia, Ingrid Milena Rodriguez Bedoya, Diana Marcela Walteros Acero
    Background:
    In Colombia, the PRASS strategy (tests, tracing, and sustainable selective isolation) was developed to control SARS-Cov2, which sought to detect and isolate cases to control the chain...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Colombia

    First confirmed cases of COVID-19 with variant P.1 lineage B.1.1.28 in Leticia, Colombia, 2021

    Katherine Contreras Acosta, Lina Molina, Hernán Quijada Bonilla, Andrea Yanira Rodriguez Rodriguez
    Background:
    The P.1 variant of SARS-CoV-2 is of public health interest due to its high transmissibility and affectation to the host's immune response. Through the genomic surveillance strategy...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Public health surveillance
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Colombia

    Análisis de mortalidad por COVID-19, República Dominicana, 2020-2021

    Cecilia Then, Cristhofer Solano, Venecia Ramírez, Ronald Skewes, Fernanda Bruzadelli
    Antecedentes:
    República Dominicana (RD) registró el primer fallecimiento por COVID-19 en marzo/2020. Los riesgos conocidos de fallecer por la enfermedad están relacionados con edad avanzada,...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Public health surveillance
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Dominican Republic

    Inquérito sorológico de Covid-19 na Penitenciária Feminina do Distrito Federal, Brasil, 2020

    Ruanna Miranda, Nathalie Estima, Simone de Souza, Rita Gaio, Lara Bandeira Patricia Barreira, Camile Moraes, Ana Julia Alves
    Antecedentes:
    O conhecimento da situação epidemiológica da Covid-19 em ambiente prisional é importante e desafiador durante a pandemia, principalmente, na tomada de ações de prevenção e controle...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Brazil

    Monitoreo seroepidemiológico de IgG para SARS-CoV-2 en estaciones ferroviarias de Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina, durante el 2020

    Maria Paz Rojas Mena, Micaela Gauto, Dalila Rueda, Federico Martin Santoro
    Antecedentes:
    Monitoreo seroepidemiológico de IgG para SARS-CoV-2 en estaciones ferroviarias de Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina, durante el 2020. Los estudios de seroprevalencia...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Public health surveillance
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Argentina

    COVID-19: estudo descritivo das hospitalizações em Unidades de Terapia Intensiva, no estado do Amazonas, região Norte do Brasil, 2020

    Antecedentes:
    O Amazonas foi um dos estados brasileiros mais afetados pela pandemia de COVID-19. Até outubro/2020, haviam sido confirmados 161.683 casos, 4.543 óbitos e 2.461 hospitalizações em...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Brazil

    Soroprevalência de SARS-CoV-2 em internos recém incorporados em um grande complexo prisional no Distrito Federal, Brasil, em 2020

    Lairton Borja, Patricia de Oliveira, Danniely Carolinne Soares da Silva, Fernando Reis, Cassio Peterka, Claudia Feres Janaina Oliveira, Gisele Sodré, Wallace Santos, Camile Moraes
    Antecedentes:
    Durante investigação de surto de COVID-19 em um complexo prisional no Distrito Federal, Brasil, em 2020, identificou-se internos infectados para SARS-CoV-2 em triagem sorológica...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Public health surveillance
    • Brazil

    Brote de COVID-19 durante producción cinematográfica, Samaná, República Dominicana, mayo 2021

    Khira Cabrera, Emelly Crisostomo
    Antecedentes:
    La provincia de Samaná, República Dominicana(RD), es visitada por más de un millón de personas cada año, con propósito turístico, recreativos o laborales como la producciones...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Dominican Republic

    Brote por Covid-19 en una institución de prevención y tratamiento de adicciones a drogas, municipio de Moca, provincia Espaillat, República Dominicana, junio-julio, 2021

    Jose Brito, Marinely Ramos, Doirenis Camacho
    Antecedentes:
    El 28 de julio/2021, la vigilancia epidemiológica de la provincia Espaillat, República Dominicana (RD), fue informada del aumento de consultas para Covid-19 en recluidos de una...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Healthcare related infections
    • Public health surveillance
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Dominican Republic

    The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 among Indigenous Peoples on Vancouver Island – British Columbia, Canada, March 2020-March 2021

    Courtney Rady Smith, Karyn Caplette, Charmaine Enns, Shannon Waters, Jeffrey Beselt, Brennan MacDonald
    Background:
    Indigenous Peoples globally have experienced increased morbidity and mortality in past pandemics relative to the non-Indigenous population. The COVID-19 pandemic is another example of...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Public health surveillance
    • Canada

    Caracterización de pacientes con COVID-19 y cáncer en Argentina luego de un año de pandemia: un estudio de vigilancia epidemiológica.

    Agustina Flamenco Marucco, Maria Paz Rojas Mena, Lara Gomez

    Antecedentes:
    Múltiples estudios demostraron mayor gravedad de COVID-19 en pacientes oncológicos. En Argentina, no existen reportes sobre COVID-19 y cáncer. El objetivo de este estudio fue...

    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Argentina

    Descripción de un brote de COVID-19 en torno a un caso pediátrico residente en área rural, San Pedro - Paraguay (Abril 2020)

    Antecedentes:
    Desde diciembre de 2019 la emergencia del virus del SARS CoV 2 ha producido nuevos y grandes desafíos para la salud pública global. En marzo de 2020, Paraguay estableció cuarentena...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Healthcare related infections
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Paraguay

    Epidemiological characterization of COVID-19 in people aged 60 and over in Cundinamarca, Colombia, 2020

    Cindy Marleyi Sanabria Castellanos, Carolina Monroy Calvo, Javier Cabrera Guerra, Damaris Constanza Heredia Melo, Franklyn Edwin Prieto, Maritza Gonzalez
    Background:
    Cundinamarca is the fifth most affected region of the country by COVID-19 in the elderly population. The objective was to determine the characteristics of the disease in this...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Colombia

    Sars-Cov-2 Infection in Pregnant Women, Colombia March – November 2020

    Greace Alejandra Avila Mellizo, Nathaly Rozo, Maria Eugenia Pinilla Saraza, Diana Alexa Forero Motta, Marcela Daza Calero, Diana Marcela Walteros Acero Franklyn Edwin Prieto, Favio Aurelio Rivas Muñoz
    Background:
    Adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes related to COVID-19 during pregnancy are yet to be established. Pregnancy increases the susceptibility of developing severe COVID-19. This...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Maternal and child health
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Colombia

    Síndrome Inflamatória Multissistêmica Pediátrica temporalmente associada à Covid-19: perfil epidemiológico dos casos notificados ao Ministério Saúde no primeiro ano de monitoramento - Brasil, 2020-2021

    Lais Relvas, Marcela Costa, Plinio Istilli, Luis Arroyo, Caroline Gava, Victor Porto Francieli Fantinato, Danielle Castanha, Adriana Lucena, Greice Carmo
    Antecedentes:
    Em maio de 2020 a Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS) alertou aos países sobre a identificação de uma manifestação clínica grave em crianças/adolescentes previamente saudáveis,...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Maternal and child health
    • Other
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Brazil

    Investigación de casos de enfermedad diarreica aguda durante el apagón eléctrico en Macapá, Región Norte del Brasil, 2020

    Magda Duarte, Fernanda Bordalo, Ingrid Martins, Iasmin Miranda, Fernanda Bruzadelli
    Antecedentes:
    El 3 de noviembre de 2020, ante fuertes lluvias, la subestación eléctrica en el estado de Amapá sufrió una explosión y consecuente incendio, un desastre que llevó a los municipios...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Occupational and environmental health
    • Water or foodborne
    • Brazil

    Brote de rotavirus en un municipio del nordeste de Brasil, agosto-septiembre/2020

    Antecedentes:
    En septiembre de 2020, la Secretaría de Salud del municipio de Araci/Bahía, identificó un aumento en la atención de la gastroenteritis aguda. La hipótesis inicial fue la...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Water or foodborne
    • Brazil

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