Epidemiological study of scorpion stings in the Rio Grande do Norte State, Northeastern Brazil

This communication is a retrospective epidemiological study of the scorpion sting cases recorded from 2007 to 2014 in the Rio Grande do Norte State, Northeastern Brazil. The data was collected from the Injury Notification Information System database of the Health Department of Rio Grande do Norte St...

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Autores principales: de Araújo, Kaliany Adja Medeiros, Tavares, Aluska Vieira, Marques, Michael Radan de Vasconcelos, Vieira, Alecxandro Alves, Leite, Renner de Souza
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Publicado: Instituto de Medicina Tropical 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5553945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28793026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1678-9946201759058
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author de Araújo, Kaliany Adja Medeiros
Tavares, Aluska Vieira
Marques, Michael Radan de Vasconcelos
Vieira, Alecxandro Alves
Leite, Renner de Souza
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Tavares, Aluska Vieira
Marques, Michael Radan de Vasconcelos
Vieira, Alecxandro Alves
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description This communication is a retrospective epidemiological study of the scorpion sting cases recorded from 2007 to 2014 in the Rio Grande do Norte State, Northeastern Brazil. The data was collected from the Injury Notification Information System database of the Health Department of Rio Grande do Norte State. A total of 20,555 cases were studied. The cases were distributed over all months of the period studied and occurred mainly in urban areas. Victims were predominantly 20-29 year-old women. Most victims were stung on the foot and received medical care within 1-3 h after being stung. The cases were mostly classified as mild and progressed to cure. Scorpion stings in Rio Grande do Norte State are an environmental public health problem that needs to be monitored and controlled throughout the year.
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spelling pubmed-55539452017-08-17 Epidemiological study of scorpion stings in the Rio Grande do Norte State, Northeastern Brazil de Araújo, Kaliany Adja Medeiros Tavares, Aluska Vieira Marques, Michael Radan de Vasconcelos Vieira, Alecxandro Alves Leite, Renner de Souza Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo Original Article This communication is a retrospective epidemiological study of the scorpion sting cases recorded from 2007 to 2014 in the Rio Grande do Norte State, Northeastern Brazil. The data was collected from the Injury Notification Information System database of the Health Department of Rio Grande do Norte State. A total of 20,555 cases were studied. The cases were distributed over all months of the period studied and occurred mainly in urban areas. Victims were predominantly 20-29 year-old women. Most victims were stung on the foot and received medical care within 1-3 h after being stung. The cases were mostly classified as mild and progressed to cure. Scorpion stings in Rio Grande do Norte State are an environmental public health problem that needs to be monitored and controlled throughout the year. Instituto de Medicina Tropical 2017-08-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5553945/ /pubmed/28793026 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1678-9946201759058 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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de Araújo, Kaliany Adja Medeiros
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Vieira, Alecxandro Alves
Leite, Renner de Souza
Epidemiological study of scorpion stings in the Rio Grande do Norte State, Northeastern Brazil
title Epidemiological study of scorpion stings in the Rio Grande do Norte State, Northeastern Brazil
title_full Epidemiological study of scorpion stings in the Rio Grande do Norte State, Northeastern Brazil
title_fullStr Epidemiological study of scorpion stings in the Rio Grande do Norte State, Northeastern Brazil
title_full_unstemmed Epidemiological study of scorpion stings in the Rio Grande do Norte State, Northeastern Brazil
title_short Epidemiological study of scorpion stings in the Rio Grande do Norte State, Northeastern Brazil
title_sort epidemiological study of scorpion stings in the rio grande do norte state, northeastern brazil
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5553945/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1678-9946201759058
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