TY - JOUR AU - Martins-Melo, Francisco Rogerlândio AU - Pinheiro, Marta Cristhiany Cunha AU - Ramos, Alberto Novaes AU - Alencar, Carlos Henrique AU - Bezerra, Fernando Schemelzer de Moraes AU - Heukelbach, Jorg T1 - Spatiotemporal Patterns of Schistosomiasis-Related Deaths, Brazil, 20002011 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2015 VL - 21 IS - 10 SP - 1820 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We analyzed spatiotemporal patterns of 8,756 schistosomiasis-related deaths in Brazil during 2000–2011 and identified high-risk clusters of deaths, mainly in highly schistosomiasis-endemic areas along the coast of Brazil’s Northeast Region. Schistosomiasis remains a neglected public health problem with a high number of deaths in disease-endemic and emerging focal areas. KW - Schistosomiasis KW - spatial analysis KW - ecological study KW - epidemiology KW - mortality KW - vector-borne infections KW - Brazil KW - Schistosoma KW - trematodes KW - parasites DO - 10.3201/eid2110.141438 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/21/10/14-1438_article ER - End of Reference