Chikungunya-attributable deaths: A neglected outcome of a neglected disease

Antonio S Lima Neto; Geziel S Sousa; Osmar J Nascimento; Marcia C Castro

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0007575

Chikungunya-attributable deaths: A neglected outcome of a neglected disease

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2019 Sep 12;13(9):e0007575. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007575. eCollection 2019 Sep.

Authors

Antonio S Lima Neto^{1

2

3}, Geziel S Sousa¹, Osmar J Nascimento¹, Marcia C Castro⁴

Affiliations

¹ Health Surveillance Department, Fortaleza Municipal Health Secretariat (SMS-Fortaleza), Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
² Health Sciences Center, University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR), Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
³ Takemi Program, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
⁴ Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Age Factors
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Brazil / epidemiology
Chikungunya Fever / epidemiology*
Chikungunya Fever / mortality*
Chikungunya virus / isolation & purification
Child
Child, Preschool
Disease Notification
Epidemics / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Infant
Middle Aged
Neglected Diseases / epidemiology
Neglected Diseases / mortality

Grants and funding

ASLN was sponsored by the CAPES Foundation, Brazil (Coordenação do Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior), PVEX - 88881.172879/2018-01. MCC was supported by Harvard University Lemann Brazil Research Fund. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.