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Sexual violence against women in the Western Amazon. [PDF]

Rev Saude Publica, 2021
To characterize sexual violence cases suffered by women notified by the Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação (Information System for Notifiable Diseases) in the city of Rio Branco (AC - Brazil) from 2011 to 2016.Descriptive study based on information from the Notifiable Diseases Information System.
Cargnin JSS, Luna JS, Aguiar DM, Rodrigues BTC, Azevedo Filho AA, Silveira RP.   +5 more
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Future of oil and gas development in the western Amazon [PDF]

Environmental Research Letters, 2015
The western Amazon is one of the world’s last high-biodiversity wilderness areas, characterized by extraordinary species richness and large tracts of roadless humid tropical forest.
Matt Finer, Bruce Babbitt, Sidney Novoa, Francesco Ferrarese, Salvatore Eugenio Pappalardo, Massimo De Marchi, Maria Saucedo, Anjali Kumar   +7 more
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Mapping the Silent Threat: A Comprehensive Analysis of Chagas Disease Occurrence in Riverside Communities in the Western Amazon [PDF]

Pathogens
Chagas disease (CD) is a typical tropical illness caused by Trypanosoma cruzi. The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of Chagas disease in communities in two states of the Brazilian Amazon.
Daniela da Silva Paixão, Fernanda Portela Madeira, Adila Costa de Jesus, Hêmilly Caroline da Silva Paixão, Juliana de Souza Almeida Aranha Camargo, Mariane Albuquerque Lima Ribeiro, Leandro José Ramos, Jader de Oliveira, João Aristeu da Rosa, Paulo Sérgio Bernarde, Antonieta Pereira Relvas, Sergio de Almeida Basano, Luis Marcelo Aranha Camargo, Dionatas Ulises de Oliveira Meneguetti   +13 more
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SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance in Rondônia, Brazilian Western Amazon. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2021
AbstractSARS-CoV-2 has spread rapidly around the world, with Brazil currently considered an epicenter of the pandemic. The Northern region has the second highest incidence coefficient, as well as the third highest mortality rate in the country. This study aimed to investigate information about the evolutionary history of epidemic spread and genetic ...
Botelho-Souza LF, Nogueira-Lima FS, Roca TP, Naveca FG, de Oliveria Dos Santos A, Maia ACS, da Silva CC, de Melo Mendonça ALF, Lugtenburg CAB, Azzi CFG, Fontes JLF, Cavalcante S, de Cássia Pontello Rampazzo R, Santos CHN, Di Sabatino Guimarães AP, Máximo FR, Villalobos-Salcedo JM, Vieira DS.   +17 more
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Prevalence of sexually transmissible infections in adolescents treated in a family planning outpatient clinic for adolescents in the western Amazon. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2023
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are among the most common public health problems worldwide, especially among adolescents and young adults, who account for almost 50% of all STI patients.
Ida Peréa Monteiro, Camila Flávia Gomes Azzi, João Paolo Bilibio, Pedro Sadi Monteiro, Giordana Campos Braga, Nadjar Nitz   +5 more
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Outbreak of Oropouche virus in frontier regions in western Amazon. [PDF]

Microbiol Spectr
ABSTRACT Oropouche virus (OROV) is characterized as a re-emerging arbovirus of great concern for public health, being responsible for several outbreaks of acute fever identified in Latin American countries, registering more than half a million reported cases.
Moreira HM, Sgorlon G, Queiroz JAS, Roca TP, Ribeiro J, Teixeira KS, Passos-Silva AM, Araújo A, Gasparelo NWF, Dos Santos AdO, Lugtenburg CAB, Roque RA, Villalobos Salcedo JM, Pereira DB, Vieira D.   +14 more
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INACTIVE BEHAVIOR IN ADOLESCENT STUDENTS OF THE BRAZILIAN WESTERN AMAZON. [PDF]

Rev Paul Pediatr, 2019
ABSTRACT Objective: To identify the prevalence of physical inactivity in adolescent students in the city of Porto Velho, RO, Northern Brazil, and its associated factors. Methods: School-based study, conducted with 2,694 adolescents. The self-reported variable for outcome was physical inactivity.
Farias EDS, Carvalho WRG, Moraes AM, Santos JPD, Gemelli IFB, Souza OF.   +5 more
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HTLV-2 infection in Manaus, Brazil: first description of HTLV-2c subtype in an urban area of the Western Amazon region [PDF]

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2020
INTRODUCTION: We investigated the prevalence of human T-cell lymphotropic virus types 1 and 2 (HTLV-1/2) infection in patients with hematological diseases from the western Amazon region of Brazil.
Gemilson Soares Pontes, Hygor Halyson Figueiredo Ribeiro, Diana Mota Toro, José Pereira de Moura Neto, Victor Souza, Maria Edilene Martins de Almeida, Valdinete Alves do Nascimento, Cristovão Alves da Costa, Felipe Gomes Naveca, Mike Santos, Antonio Carlos Rosário Vallinoto   +10 more
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JUDICIALIZATION OF HEALTH IN THE WESTERN AMAZON

International Journal for Innovation Education and Research, 2021
The present work addresses the theme of health judicialization and its impacts within the budget. It analyzes the financial effects of court decisions in the Municipal Health Secretariat of Porto Velho, capital of the state of Rondônia. As a temporal delimitation, the period between the years 2014 to 2017 was taken into account.
Layde Lana Borges da Silva, Isabela Esteves Cury Coutinho, ROSALINA ALVES NANTES, Everson da Silva Vieira, Karina Rocha Prado, Maria Janina da Silva Manoel   +5 more
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Non-venomous snakebites in the Western Brazilian Amazon [PDF]

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2019
In this study, we examined the clinical manifestations, laboratory evidence, and the circumstances of snakebites caused by non-venomous snakes, which were treated at the Regional Hospital of Juruá in Cruzeiro do Sul.Data were collected through patient interviews, identification of the species that were taken to the hospital, and the clinical ...
Ageane Mota da Silva, Viviane Kici da Graça Mendes, Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro, Paulo Sérgio Bernarde   +3 more
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