Dengue: perfil epidemiológico em quatro municipios do estado de Goiás

Abstract

The present study is to describe and analyze the epidemiological profile of dengue cases in the city of Trinidade - Goiás Dengue is an arbovirus considered a serious viral infection transmitted by an arthropod vector (mosquitoes), a virus belonging to the genus flavivirus, family Culicidae. According to Ng (2011) RNA viruses have in single-stranded viral particles spherical, and is enveloped positive polarity. Dengue is a major reemerging diseases in the world, provided especially for environmental and economic changes in organized social space. Thus, by increasing the national incidence of deaths and serious forms, it is necessary to better understand the real extent of the disease locally, aiming to characterize the demographic distribution of dengue cases in the municipalities of Aparecida de Goiânia, Goiânia Senador Canedo, and Trindade, in the period 2010-2014. Accordingly, a comparison will be made in relation to the city of Trinidad with the others under review. This is an epidemiological descriptive and cross-sectional study whose data were collected on the State Department of Health of the State of Goiás and Datasus site. The spatial distribution of the cases described showed that the municipality of Trinidad - Goiás is what had the lowest rate of cases between the years 2010 to 2014.