FEAD: The Field Epidemiology Abstract Database

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FEAD: The Field Epidemiology Abstract Database

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    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

    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

    La auditoría de la calidad y el análisis de problemas, procesos de gestión para el monitoreo de la vigilancia epidemiológica en el Centro de Salud Pio XII, Quito, Ecuador, 2021

    Paulina Alexandra Guamán Carrasco
    Antecedentes:
    Ecuador retoma en 2021 la implementación del FETP Frontline, como trabajos de campo se planteó realizar auditorías de la calidad del sistema de vigilancia epidemiológica y el...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Public health surveillance
    • Other
    • Ecuador

    Multicenter outbreak of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection associated with methotrexate, Colombia, 2019-2020

    Sandra Milena Rivera Vargas, Carlos Andrés Pinto, María Victoria Ovalle, Sandra Yamile Saavedra, Carolina Duarte, José William Martínez Franklyn Edwin Prieto
    Background:
    Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative opportunistic microorganism. It is found in humid environments, grows with limited nutrients and can colonize hospital water and generate...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Healthcare related infections
    • Water or foodborne
    • Colombia

    Seasonality and severity of the seasons of acute respiratory infection by Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Colombia, 2013 to 2019

    Diana Carolina Malo, José Orlando Castillo
    Background:
    Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is the main causal agent of respiratory infections in children under one year of age, between 60% - 70% of minors have been infected by this agent; in...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Other
    • Colombia

    Análisis descriptivo de sífilis gestacional, Santiago de Cali, Valle del Cauca, a semana epidemiológica 43, 2019

    Ariadna Botero Henao, Claudia Marcela Muñoz
    Antecedentes:
    La sífilis gestacional es una enfermedad de transmisión sexual, sanguínea y perinatal. Este estudio fue realizado con el fin de caracterizar los casos de sífilis gestacional...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Maternal and child health
    • Colombia

    Descrição do funcionamento dos serviços de vacinação em municípios brasileiros da faixa de fronteira do Brasil em tempos de pandemia de Covid-19, junho a dezembro, 2020.

    Ewerton Rocha, Patricia Glowacki, Adriana Lucena
    Antecedentes:
    A migração humana é um aspecto importante da saúde pública, especialmente em áreas de fronteira. O Brasil faz divisa com 10 países, com uma extensa faixa de fronteira que abrange...
    Conference: 11th TEPHINET Americas (2021, Canada)
    • Public health surveillance
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Brazil

    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

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