Spatial analysis of probable cases of dengue fever, chikungunya fever and zika virus infections in Maranhao State, Brazil

Autor: Silmery da Silva Brito Costa, Maria dos Remédios Freitas Carvalho Branco, José Aquino Junior, Zulimar Márita Ribeiro Rodrigues, Rejane Christine de Sousa Queiroz, Adriana Soraya Araujo, Ana Patrícia Barros Câmara, Polyana Sousa dos Santos, Emile Danielly Amorim Pereira, Maria do Socorro da Silva, Flávia Regina Vieira da Costa, Amanda Valéria Damasceno dos Santos, Maria Nilza Lima Medeiros, José Odval Alcântara Júnior, Vitor Vieira Vasconcelos, Alcione Miranda dos Santos, Antônio Augusto Moura da Silva
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, Vol 60, Iss 0 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1678-9946
DOI: 10.1590/s1678-9946201860062
Popis: ABSTRACT Dengue fever, chikungunya fever, and zika virus infections are increasing public health problems in the world, the last two diseases having recently emerged in Brazil. This ecological study employed spatial analysis of probable cases of dengue fever, chikungunya fever, and zika virus infections reported to the National Mandatory Reporting System (SINAN) in Maranhao State from 2015 to 2016. The software GeoDa version 1.10 was used for calculating global and local Moran indices. The global Moran index identified a significant autocorrelation of incidence rates of dengue (I=0.10; p=0.009) and zika (I=0.07; p=0.03). The study found a positive spatial correlation between dengue and the population density (I=0.31; p
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