Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic Surveillance of Visceral Leishmaniasis in Brazil: An Ecological Study

• Main Authors: Josefa Rayane Santos Silveira (Author), Shirley Verônica Melo Almeida Lima (Author), Allan Dantas dos Santos (Author), Luana Silva Siqueira (Author), Guilherme Reis de Santana Santos (Author), Álvaro Francisco Lopes de Sousa (Author), Layze Braz de Oliveira (Author), Isabel Amélia Costa Mendes (Author), Caíque Jordan Nunes Ribeiro (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2024-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The aim of the study was to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the notification of new VL cases in Brazil in 2020. It is an ecological and time-series study (2015-2020) with spatial analysis techniques, whose units of analysis were the 5570 Brazilian municipalities. The study population c...