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ArticlePloS one2021

Spatiotemporal analysis of bubonic plague in Pernambuco, northeast of Brazil: Case study in the municipality of Exu.

Diego Leandro Reis da Silva Fernandes, Elainne Christine de Souza Gomes, Matheus Filgueira Bezerra, Ricardo José de Paula Souza E Guimarães, Alzira Maria Paiva de Almeida

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Article in PloS one, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Diego Leandro Reis da Silva FernandesDepartment of Microbiology, Institute Aggeu Magalhães-Fiocruz PE, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
Elainne Christine de Souza GomesDepartment of Parasitology, Institute Aggeu Magalhães-Fiocruz PE, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
Matheus Filgueira BezerraDepartment of Microbiology, Institute Aggeu Magalhães-Fiocruz PE, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-7102-6804
Ricardo José de Paula Souza E GuimarãesGeoprocessing Laboratory, Evandro Chagas Institute/SVS/MS, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-5767-4765
Alzira Maria Paiva de AlmeidaDepartment of Microbiology, Institute Aggeu Magalhães-Fiocruz PE, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-8304-3182
Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Pernambuco · BRInstituto de Tecnologia de Pernambuco · BRInstituto Evandro Chagas · BR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Along with other countries in America, plague reached Brazil through the sea routes during the third pandemic. A brief ports phase was followed by an urban phase that took place in smaller inland cities and finally, it attained the rural area and established several foci where the ecological conditions were suitable for its continued existence. However, the geographic dispersion of plague in Brazil is still poorly studied. To better understand the disease dynamics, we accessed satellite-based data to trace the spatial occurrence and distribution of human plague cases in Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil and using the municipality of Exu as study case area. Along with the satellite data, a historical survey using the Plague Control Program files was applied to characterize the spatial and temporal dispersion of cases in the period of 1945-1976. Kernel density estimation, spatial and temporal clusters with statistical significance and maximum entropy modeling were used for spatial data analysis, by means of the spatial analysis software packages. The use of geostatistical tools allowed evidencing the shift of the infection from the urban to the wild-sylvatic areas and the reemergence of cases after a period of quiescence, independent of the reintroduction from other plague areas.

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PlagueSpatio-Temporal AnalysisBrazilCitiesHumans

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PMID33798208
PMCPMC8018616
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