Climate and acute/subacute paracoccidioidomycosis in a hyper-endemic area in Brazil | Zendy

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Climate and acute/subacute paracoccidioidomycosis in a hyper-endemic area in Brazil

Author(s) -

Lígia Vizeu Barrozo,

Rinaldo Pôncio Mendes,

Sílvio Alencar Marques,

Gil Benard,

Maria Elisa Siqueira Silva,

Eduardo Bagagli

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyp207

Subject(s) - paracoccidioidomycosis , incidence (geometry) , relative humidity , precipitation , humidity , environmental science , veterinary medicine , seasonality , geography , climatology , medicine , ecology , meteorology , biology , immunology , mathematics , geometry , geology

Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is Latin America's most prevalent systemic mycosis, carrying an important social burden. Its agent, Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, has rarely been identified in nature. Studies characterizing acute/subacute PCM incidence and their relationship with climate variables are not available. This work analysed a series of acute/subacute cases that occurred in the Botucatu area, São Paulo State, Brazil, from 1969 to 1999, as an outcome of weather variability.

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