Publications

acute respiratory viral infections in ambulatory children of urban northeast brazil.	the morbidity of acute respiratory infections in young children and the role of respiratory viruses were evaluated in a 29-month household-based study in an impoverished urban population in fortaleza, brazil; subjects were 175 children less than 5 years of age in 63 families. home visits were conducted three times weekly during which staff recorded the presence of respiratory and systemic symptoms and collected upper respiratory tract samples for viral isolation. a large and sustained burden of ...	1991	1649871
acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis outbreak in the city of fortaleza, northeast brazil.	between february and may 2003 an epidemic of acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis affected more than 200 000 people in all five geographic regions of brazil (north, south, midwestern, southeast, and northeast). the aim was to identify the aetiological agent and to describe clinical aspects of this outbreak in a group of patients treated at the ophthalmology department of the hospital walter cantídio (od-hwc) at the universidade federal do ceará, in the city of fortaleza, capital of the state of cea ...	2006	16809381