2022
Rickettsial Infections Causing Acute Febrile Illness in Urban Slums, Brazil - Volume 28, Number 10—October 2022 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC
Fournier JB, Blanton LS, Nery N, Wunder EA, Costa F, Reis MG, Ribeiro GS, Walker DH, Ko AI. Rickettsial Infections Causing Acute Febrile Illness in Urban Slums, Brazil - Volume 28, Number 10—October 2022 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC. Emerging Infectious Diseases 2022, 28: 2132-2134. PMID: 36148970, PMCID: PMC9514363, DOI: 10.3201/eid2810.220497.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2020
Transmission of Chikungunya Virus in a Brazilian Urban Slum - Volume 26, Number 7—July 2020 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC
Anjos RO, Mugabe VA, Moreira PSS, Carvalho CX, Portilho MM, Khouri R, Sacramento GA, Nery NRR, Reis MG, Kitron UD, Ko AI, Costa F, Ribeiro GS. Transmission of Chikungunya Virus in a Brazilian Urban Slum - Volume 26, Number 7—July 2020 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC. Emerging Infectious Diseases 2020, 26: 1364-1373. PMID: 32568045, PMCID: PMC7323528, DOI: 10.3201/eid2607.190846.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEpisodes of feverChikungunya outbreakInfectious Diseases journal - CDCSymptomatic infection ratePresumptive clinical diagnosisSufficient herd immunityCommunity-based studyFurther longitudinal studiesCHIKV seroprevalenceSeropositive personsVirus seroprevalenceClinical dataHerd immunityChikungunya virusInfection rateClinical diagnosisSerum samplesDisease pointUnpaved streetsArthralgiaLongitudinal studyFeverSeroprevalenceEpisodesOutbreak