Journal of Infectious Diseases and Diagnosis

Laboratório de Microbiologia Celular (LAMICEL), Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC), Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Research Article   
  Aspects of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in an Indigenous Pataxo Community of Southernmost Bahia, Northeast Brazil
  Author(s): Luciano Rodrigues Reis and Maria Helena Féres Saad*
  
  Background and objectives: Severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 caused the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. In Brazil, data remain limited in vulnerable populations, including indigenous people. We investigated epidemiological, demographic, and clinical aspects of COVID-19 in the Pataxó lands of the municipalities of Porto Seguro (PS) and Santa Cruz Cabrália (SCC), southernmost Bahia, Brazil, during the first 499 days of transmission. Materials and methods: This was a cross-sectional observational epidemiological study on the clinical, demographic and epidemiological aspects of COVID-19 in the indigenous population of Pataxó ethnicity, resident in the municipalities of Porto Seguro (PS) and Santa Cruz Cabrália (SCC), southernmost Bahia, Brazil, conducted between May 22, 2020, .. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2576-389X.23.8.214

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