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Catastrophic Sudden-Onset Disasters Are Followed by a Surge in Rehabilitation Demand

EDITORIAL The 2020 global challenges resulting from the novel coronavirus (COVID19) were enormous. More specifically, important variations in health and functional outcomes continue to be of particular consequence to the physical medicine and rehabilitation community as it struggles to address surging physical, mental, or cognitive rehabilitation needs among COVID19 survivors. It is important to appreciate […]
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Casual Sex among Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) during the Period of Sheltering in Place to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19

ABSTRACT ‘Objectives:’ We investigated the extent to which Brazilian and Portuguese Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) had casual sex partners outside their homes during the period of sheltering in place for the COVID-19 pandemic. ‘Methods:’ An online survey was conducted in Brazil and Portugal in April, during the period of social isolation for […]
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Bioecological aspects of triatomines and marsupials as wild Trypanosoma cruzi reservoirs in urban, peri-urban and rural areas in the Western Brazilian Amazon

In the Amazon region, Trypanosoma cruzi transmission cycles involve a great diversity of Triatominae vectors and mammal reservoirs. Some Rhodnius spp. mainly inhabit palm trees that act as microhabitats for hosts and vectors. The current study aimed to describe aspects of the bio-ecology of the vectors and reservoirs of T. cruzi in relation to human populations resident near areas with large quantities of palm trees, in rural, peri-urban and urban collection environments, located in the Western Brazilian Amazon.
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Behavioral changes before lockdown and decreased retail and recreation mobility during lockdown contributed most to controlling COVID-19 in Western countries

ABSTRACT ‘Background:’ The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a lockdown in many countries to control the exponential spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, hereby reducing the time-varying basic reproduction number (Rt) to below one. Governments are looking for evidence to balance the demand of their citizens to ease some of the restriction, against the fear of a […]
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Atlantic Forest Malaria: A Review of More than 20 Years of Epidemiological Investigation

ABSTRACT In the south and southeast regions of Brazil, cases of malaria occur outside the endemic Amazon region near the Atlantic Forest in some coastal states, where Plasmodium vivax is the recognized parasite. Characteristics of cases and vectors, especially Anopheles (Kerteszia) cruzii, raise the hypothesis of a zoonosis with simians as reservoirs. The present review […]
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