Background Economic recession might worsen health in low-income and middle-income
countries with precarious job markets and weak social protection systems. Between 2014�…

Randomized clinical trials (RCT) are accepted as the gold-standard approaches to measure
effects of intervention or treatment on outcomes. They are also the designs of choice for�…

Background: This study aims to analyze the relationship between chronic periodontitis and
C‐reactive protein (CRP) by considering associated variables in individuals with or without�…

Background Universal health coverage (UHC) can play an important role in achieving
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 10, which addresses reducing inequalities, but little�…

Background The number of subjects that can be recruited in immunological studies and the
number of immunological parameters that can be measured has increased rapidly over the�…

Background The physiopathology of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), a severe form of
Dengue Fever, is poorly understood. We are unable to identify patients likely to progress to�…

In this glossary the authors have reviewed old and new terms contemporarily used in the
infectious disease epidemiology. Many of these concepts were established throughout the�…

To the Editor: Brazil is responsible for> 60% of reported cases of dengue fever (DF) in the
American region (a designation of the Pan American Health Organization, which includes all�…

Background Government policies can strongly influence migrants' health. Using a Health in
All Policies approach, we systematically reviewed evidence on the impact of public policies�…

We identified different diarrheagenic (DEC) Escherichia coli pathotypes isolated from 1,207
children with and without acute endemic diarrhea in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil collected as part�…