NUMERO: #20220006

Título: THE CONTINUOUS INCREASE OF HERPES ZOSTER CASES IN BRAZIL RELATED TO THE COVID-19 ERA

Nome do Apresentador: Nelson Pereira MARQUES

Categoria do Trabalho: Apresentação Oral de Pôster de Pesquisa Científica (PPC)

Área Temática: Estomatologia

Resumo: Objectives: With the continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic throughout the world, clinical and epidemiological evidence of the occurrence and increase in the number of herpes zoster (HZ), continue to be discussed, but the real association between this disease is not well stablished. The aim of this study was to compare the data on the number of diagnoses of HZ from the pre-pandemic period with the pandemic period, as well to update the data from the second half of the pandemic and verify if HZ disease control measures were effective in the following months.
Study Design: Descriptive and incidence rate adjusted per million population analysis were performed based on data extracted from the public database of the Ministry of Health of Brazil (DATASUS).
Results: There was a consistent and significant increase in the incidence rate of HZ cases all over Brazil, between first and second pandemic periods and between the pre pandemic and the second pandemic periods.
Conclusion: This new data suggests that measures to control the increase in HZ cases in the first pandemic period were not effective. Thus, larger clinical studies are necessary to better understand the relationship between these two conditions and find measures to raise the control.

Autor 1:  Nelson Pereira MARQUES

E-mail 1:  [email protected]

Autor 2:   Nádia Carolina Teixeira MARQUES

E-mail 2:  [email protected]

Autor 3 :  Célia Márcia Fernandes MAIA

E-mail 3:  [email protected]

Autor 4:  Edson Hilan Gomes de LUCENA

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Autor 5:  Renato Assis MACHADO

E-mail 5:  [email protected]

Autor 6:  Daniella R. Barbosa MARTELLI

E-mail 6:  [email protected]

Autor 7:  Hercílio MARTELLI-JUNIOR

E-mail 7:  [email protected]