Objectives Dengue infection is a growing public health problem, with the number of
reported cases increasing in the Americas and worldwide. This review characterized the …

This work presents the results of a time series study relating air pollution and respiratory
mortality in children under 5 years of age in the metropolitan area of São Paulo, Brazil. Daily …

… Massad E, et al. Dengue and the risk of urban Yellow Fever reintroduction in Sao Paulo,
Brazil. Revista … Massad, E. The basic reproduction ratio of HIV among intravenous drug users. …

… The following statistically developed exponential equation expresses the model:(6) SN =
SN 0 e C 1 V where SN is the skid resistance (skid number or coefficient of friction), SN 0 is SN …

Dengue, the most common arbovirus infection globally, is transmitted by mosquito vectors.
Healthcare-related transmission, including transmission by blood products, has been …

… 31, 2015), daily temperature observations (minimum, maximum, and mean) from the E-OBS
12.0 dataset were used for each location gridded at 0.25 × 0.25 (about 25 × 25 km at the …

Notified cases of dengue infections in Singapore reached historical highs in 2004 (9459
cases) and 2005 (13 817 cases) and the reason for such an increase is still to be established. …

… In March 1997, Massad and collaborators presented two works that addressed the role that
fuzzy logic can play in epidemiological studies and its interdisciplinary features: Fuzzy logic …

Human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) is the major cause of lower respiratory tract
infections in children under 5 years of age and the elderly, causing annual disease outbreaks …

Thirty patients with dementia defined by DSM-III-R criteria (Alzheimer's disease (22), vascular
dementia (3), Parkinson's disease, frontal lobe dementia, possible diffuse Lewy body …