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Casais G, Guimarães NS, Cortes TR, Pescarini J, Rebouças de Magalhães P, Wells V, de Sousa Filho JF, Delgado Neves DJ, Shimonovich M, Olsen JR, de Carvalho Neto EM, Cooper P, Katikireddi SV, Emanuel L, Andrade RFS, Ferreira Dos Santos G, Barreto ML. Wildfire, deforestation and health in tropical rainforest areas: a scoping review protocol. BMJ Open 2024; 14:e082381. [PMID: 38719283 PMCID: PMC11086528 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-082381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2023] [Accepted: 04/11/2024] [Indexed: 05/12/2024] Open
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INTRODUCTION Wildfires and deforestation potentially have direct effects on multiple health outcomes as well as indirect consequences for climate change. Tropical rainforest areas are characterised by high rainfall, humidity and temperature, and they are predominantly found in low-income and middle-income countries. This study aims to synthesise the methods, data and health outcomes reported in scientific papers on wildfires and deforestation in these locations. METHODS AND ANALYSIS We will carry out a scoping review according to the Joanna Briggs Institute's (JBI) manual for scoping reviews and the framework proposed by Arksey and O'Malley, and Levac et al. The search for articles was performed on 18 August 2023, in 16 electronic databases using Medical Subject Headings terms and adaptations for each database from database inception. The search for local studies will be complemented by the manual search in the list of references of the studies selected to compose this review. We screened studies written in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. We included quantitative studies assessing any human disease outcome, hospitalisation and vital statistics in regions of tropical rainforest. We exclude qualitative studies and quantitative studies whose outcomes do not cover those of interest. The text screening was done by two independent reviewers. Subsequently, we will tabulate the data by the origin of the data source used, the methods and the main findings on health impacts of the extracted data. The results will provide descriptive statistics, along with visual representations in diagrams and tables, complemented by narrative summaries as detailed in the JBI guidelines. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION The study does not require an ethical review as it is meta-research and uses published, deidentified secondary data sources. The submission of results for publication in a peer-reviewed journal and presentation at scientific and policymakers' conferences is expected. STUDY REGISTRATION Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/pnqc7/).
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- Gustavo Casais
- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health, Fiocruz/BA, Salvador, Brazil
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- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Salvador, Brazil
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- Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
- St George's, University of London, London, UK
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health, Fiocruz/BA, Salvador, Brazil
- Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health, Fiocruz/BA, Salvador, Brazil
- Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health, Fiocruz/BA, Salvador, Brazil
- Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health, Fiocruz/BA, Salvador, Brazil
- Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
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Ramos PIP, Marcilio I, Bento AI, Penna GO, de Oliveira JF, Khouri R, Andrade RFS, Carreiro RP, Oliveira VDA, Galvão LAC, Landau L, Barreto ML, van der Horst K, Barral-Netto M. Combining Digital and Molecular Approaches Using Health and Alternate Data Sources in a Next-Generation Surveillance System for Anticipating Outbreaks of Pandemic Potential. JMIR Public Health Surveill 2024; 10:e47673. [PMID: 38194263 PMCID: PMC10806444 DOI: 10.2196/47673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2023] [Revised: 09/18/2023] [Accepted: 11/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/10/2024] Open
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Globally, millions of lives are impacted every year by infectious diseases outbreaks. Comprehensive and innovative surveillance strategies aiming at early alert and timely containment of emerging and reemerging pathogens are a pressing priority. Shortcomings and delays in current pathogen surveillance practices further disturbed informing responses, interventions, and mitigation of recent pandemics, including H1N1 influenza and SARS-CoV-2. We present the design principles of the architecture for an early-alert surveillance system that leverages the vast available data landscape, including syndromic data from primary health care, drug sales, and rumors from the lay media and social media to identify areas with an increased number of cases of respiratory disease. In these potentially affected areas, an intensive and fast sample collection and advanced high-throughput genome sequencing analyses would inform on circulating known or novel pathogens by metagenomics-enabled pathogen characterization. Concurrently, the integration of bioclimatic and socioeconomic data, as well as transportation and mobility network data, into a data analytics platform, coupled with advanced mathematical modeling using artificial intelligence or machine learning, will enable more accurate estimation of outbreak spread risk. Such an approach aims to readily identify and characterize regions in the early stages of an outbreak development, as well as model risk and patterns of spread, informing targeted mitigation and control measures. A fully operational system must integrate diverse and robust data streams to translate data into actionable intelligence and actions, ultimately paving the way toward constructing next-generation surveillance systems.
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- Pablo Ivan P Ramos
- Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Salvador, Brazil
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- Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Salvador, Brazil
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- The Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY, United States
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- Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
- Escola Fiocruz de Governo, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Brasília, Brazil
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- Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Salvador, Brazil
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- Medicine and Precision Public Health Laboratory (MeSP2), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Salvador, Brazil
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- Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Salvador, Brazil
- Physics Institute, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
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- Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Salvador, Brazil
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- Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Salvador, Brazil
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- Centro de Relações Internacionais em Saúde (CRIS), Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Department of Civil Engineering (COPPE), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Salvador, Brazil
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- Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Salvador, Brazil
- Medicine and Precision Public Health Laboratory (MeSP2), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Salvador, Brazil
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Paiva ASS, Santos GF, Castro CP, Rodriguez DA, Bilal U, de Sousa Filho JF, Freitas A, Montes F, Dronova I, Barreto ML, Andrade RFS. A scaling investigation of urban form features in Latin America cities. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0293518. [PMID: 38109440 PMCID: PMC10727436 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0293518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2022] [Accepted: 10/15/2023] [Indexed: 12/20/2023] Open
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This paper examines scaling behaviors of urban landscape and street design metrics with respect to city population in Latin America. We used data from the SALURBAL project, which has compiled and harmonized data on health, social, and built environment for 371 Latin American cities above 100,000 inhabitants. These metrics included total urbanized area, effective mesh size, area in km2 and number of streets. We obtained scaling relations by regressing log(metric) on log (city population). The results show an overall sub-linear scaling behavior of most variables, indicating a relatively lower value of each variable in larger cities. We also explored the potential influence of colonization on the current built environment, by analyzing cities colonized by Portuguese (Brazilian cities) or Spaniards (Other cities in Latin America) separately. We found that the scaling behaviors are similar for both sets of cities.
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- Aureliano S. S. Paiva
- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Economics Faculty, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Institute of Physics, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Department of City and Regional Planning and Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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- Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Economics Faculty, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Department of Industrial Engineering, Universidad de los Andes, Social and Health Complexity Center, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Institute of Physics, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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Costa MDCN, Cardim LL, Moore CA, de Jesus EDS, Carvalho-Sauer R, Barreto ML, Rodrigues LC, Smeeth L, Schuler-Faccini L, Brickley EB, Oliveira WK, Carmo EH, Pescarini JM, Andrade RFS, Rodrigues MMS, Veiga RV, Costa LC, França GVA, Teixeira MG, Paixão ES. Causes of death in children with congenital Zika syndrome in Brazil, 2015 to 2018: A nationwide record linkage study. PLoS Med 2023; 20:e1004181. [PMID: 36827251 PMCID: PMC9956022 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2022] [Accepted: 01/23/2023] [Indexed: 02/25/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Children with congenital Zika syndrome (CZS) have severe damage to the peripheral and central nervous system (CNS), greatly increasing the risk of death. However, there is no information on the sequence of the underlying, intermediate, immediate, and contributing causes of deaths among these children. The aims of this study are describe the sequence of events leading to death of children with CZS up to 36 months of age and their probability of dying from a given cause, 2015 to 2018. METHODS AND FINDINGS In a population-based study, we linked administrative data on live births, deaths, and cases of children with CZS from the SINASC (Live Birth Information System), the SIM (Mortality Information System), and the RESP (Public Health Event Records), respectively. Confirmed and probable cases of CZS were those that met the criteria established by the Brazilian Ministry of Health. The information on causes of death was collected from death certificates (DCs) using the World Health Organization (WHO) DC template. We estimated proportional mortality (PM%) among children with CZS and among children with non-Zika CNS congenital anomalies (CA) by 36 months of age and proportional mortality ratio by cause (PMRc). A total of 403 children with confirmed and probable CZS who died up to 36 months of age were included in the study; 81.9% were younger than 12 months of age. Multiple congenital malformations not classified elsewhere, and septicemia unspecified, with 18 (PM = 4.5%) and 17 (PM = 4.2%) deaths, respectively, were the most attested underlying causes of death. Unspecified septicemia (29 deaths and PM = 11.2%) and newborn respiratory failure (40 deaths and PM = 12.1%) were, respectively, the predominant intermediate and immediate causes of death. Fetuses and newborns affected by the mother's infectious and parasitic diseases, unspecified cerebral palsy, and unspecified severe protein-caloric malnutrition were the underlying causes with the greatest probability of death in children with CZS (PMRc from 10.0 to 17.0) when compared to the group born with non-Zika CNS anomalies. Among the intermediate and immediate causes of death, pneumonitis due to food or vomiting and unspecified seizures (PMRc = 9.5, each) and unspecified bronchopneumonia (PMRc = 5.0) were notable. As contributing causes, fetus and newborn affected by the mother's infectious and parasitic diseases (PMRc = 7.3), unspecified cerebral palsy, and newborn seizures (PMRc = 4.5, each) were more likely to lead to death in children with CZS than in the comparison group. The main limitations of this study were the use of a secondary database without additional clinical information and potential misclassification of cases and controls. CONCLUSION The sequence of causes and circumstances involved in the deaths of the children with CZS highlights the greater vulnerability of these children to infectious and respiratory conditions compared to children with abnormalities of the CNS not related to Zika.
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- Maria da Conceição N. Costa
- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Collective Health Institute, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Goldbelt Professional Services, LLC, Chesapeake, Virginia, United States of America
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- Collective Health Institute, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Municipal Health Department, Department of Health Information, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Collective Health Institute, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- East Regional Health Center, State Health Secretariat of Bahia, Santo Antonio de Jesus, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Collective Health Institute, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Genetics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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- Technical Directorate of Education and Research, Ministry of Defense Hospital das Armed Forces, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Secretariat of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Physics Institute, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Secretariat of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Collective Health Institute, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Borges DGF, Carvalho DS, Bomfim GC, Ramos PIP, Brzozowski J, Góes-Neto A, F. S. Andrade R, El-Hani C. On the origin of mitochondria: a multilayer network approach. PeerJ 2023; 11:e14571. [PMID: 36632145 PMCID: PMC9828282 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.14571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2021] [Accepted: 11/28/2022] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Backgound The endosymbiotic theory is widely accepted to explain the origin of mitochondria from a bacterial ancestor. While ample evidence supports the intimate connection of Alphaproteobacteria to the mitochondrial ancestor, pinpointing its closest relative within sampled Alphaproteobacteria is still an open evolutionary debate. Many different phylogenetic methods and approaches have been used to answer this challenging question, further compounded by the heterogeneity of sampled taxa, varying evolutionary rates of mitochondrial proteins, and the inherent biases in each method, all factors that can produce phylogenetic artifacts. By harnessing the simplicity and interpretability of protein similarity networks, herein we re-evaluated the origin of mitochondria within an enhanced multilayer framework, which is an extension and improvement of a previously developed method. Methods We used a dataset of eight proteins found in mitochondria (N = 6 organisms) and bacteria (N = 80 organisms). The sequences were aligned and resulting identity matrices were combined to generate an eight-layer multiplex network. Each layer corresponded to a protein network, where nodes represented organisms and edges were placed following mutual sequence identity. The Multi-Newman-Girvan algorithm was applied to evaluate community structure, and bifurcation events linked to network partition allowed to trace patterns of divergence between studied taxa. Results In our network-based analysis, we first examined the topology of the 8-layer multiplex when mitochondrial sequences disconnected from the main alphaproteobacterial cluster. The resulting topology lent firm support toward an Alphaproteobacteria-sister placement for mitochondria, reinforcing the hypothesis that mitochondria diverged from the common ancestor of all Alphaproteobacteria. Additionally, we observed that the divergence of Rickettsiales was an early event in the evolutionary history of alphaproteobacterial clades. Conclusion By leveraging complex networks methods to the challenging question of circumscribing mitochondrial origin, we suggest that the entire Alphaproteobacteria clade is the closest relative to mitochondria (Alphaproteobacterial-sister hypothesis), echoing recent findings based on different datasets and methodologies.
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- Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Institute of Biology, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Philosophy Department, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
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- Institute of Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil,Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Institute of Physics, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil,National Institute of Science and Technology in Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies in Ecology and Evolution (INCT IN-TREE), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Institute of Biology, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil,National Institute of Science and Technology in Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies in Ecology and Evolution (INCT IN-TREE), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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de Sousa Filho JF, Silva UM, Lima LL, Paiva ASS, Santos GF, Andrade RFS, Gouveia N, Silveira IH, de Lima Friche AA, Barreto ML, Caiaffa WT. Association of urban inequality and income segregation with COVID-19 mortality in Brazil. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0277441. [PMID: 36378655 PMCID: PMC9665357 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0277441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2022] [Accepted: 10/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Socioeconomic factors have exacerbated the impact of COVID-19 worldwide. Brazil, already marked by significant economic inequalities, is one of the most affected countries, with one of the highest mortality rates. Understanding how inequality and income segregation contribute to excess mortality by COVID-19 in Brazilian cities is essential for designing public health policies to mitigate the impact of the disease. This paper aims to fill in this gap by analyzing the effect of income inequality and income segregation on COVID-19 mortality in large urban centers in Brazil. We compiled weekly COVID-19 mortality rates from March 2020 to February 2021 in a longitudinal ecological design, aggregating data at the city level for 152 Brazilian cities. Mortality rates from COVID-19 were compared across weeks, cities and states using mixed linear models. We estimated the associations between COVID-19 mortality rates with income inequality and income segregation using mixed negative binomial models including city and week-level random intercepts. We measured income inequality using the Gini index and income segregation using the dissimilarity index using data from the 2010 Brazilian demographic census. We found that 88.2% of COVID-19 mortality rates variability was between weeks, 8.5% between cities, and 3.3% between states. Higher-income inequality and higher-income segregation values were associated with higher COVID-19 mortality rates before and after accounting for all adjustment factors. In our main adjusted model, rate ratios (RR) per 1 SD increases in income inequality and income segregation were associated with 17% (95% CI 9% to 26%) and 11% (95% CI 4% to 19%) higher mortality. Income inequality and income segregation are long-standing hallmarks of large Brazilian cities. Risk factors related to the socioeconomic context affected the course of the pandemic in the country and contributed to high mortality rates. Pre-existing social vulnerabilities were critical factors in the aggravation of COVID-19, as supported by the observed associations in this study.
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- J. Firmino de Sousa Filho
- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Salvador, Brazil
- Faculty of Economics (PPGE)–Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
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- Observatory for Urban Health in Belo Horizonte (OSUBH)–Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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- Observatory for Urban Health in Belo Horizonte (OSUBH)–Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
- Postgraduate Program in Mathematical and Computational Modeling–Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais (CEFET-MG), Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Salvador, Brazil
- Faculty of Economics (PPGE)–Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Salvador, Brazil
- Institute of Physics–Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
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- University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Salvador, Brazil
- Institute of Public Health (ISC)–Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
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- Observatory for Urban Health in Belo Horizonte (OSUBH)–Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Salvador, Brazil
- Institute of Public Health (ISC)–Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
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- Observatory for Urban Health in Belo Horizonte (OSUBH)–Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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Grave M, Viguerie A, Barros GF, Reali A, Andrade RFS, Coutinho ALGA. Modeling nonlocal behavior in epidemics via a reaction-diffusion system incorporating population movement along a network. Comput Methods Appl Mech Eng 2022; 401:115541. [PMID: 36124053 PMCID: PMC9475403 DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2022.115541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
The outbreak of COVID-19, beginning in 2019 and continuing through the time of writing, has led to renewed interest in the mathematical modeling of infectious disease. Recent works have focused on partial differential equation (PDE) models, particularly reaction-diffusion models, able to describe the progression of an epidemic in both space and time. These studies have shown generally promising results in describing and predicting COVID-19 progression. However, people often travel long distances in short periods of time, leading to nonlocal transmission of the disease. Such contagion dynamics are not well-represented by diffusion alone. In contrast, ordinary differential equation (ODE) models may easily account for this behavior by considering disparate regions as nodes in a network, with the edges defining nonlocal transmission. In this work, we attempt to combine these modeling paradigms via the introduction of a network structure within a reaction-diffusion PDE system. This is achieved through the definition of a population-transfer operator, which couples disjoint and potentially distant geographic regions, facilitating nonlocal population movement between them. We provide analytical results demonstrating that this operator does not disrupt the physical consistency or mathematical well-posedness of the system, and verify these results through numerical experiments. We then use this technique to simulate the COVID-19 epidemic in the Brazilian region of Rio de Janeiro, showcasing its ability to capture important nonlocal behaviors, while maintaining the advantages of a reaction-diffusion model for describing local dynamics.
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- Malú Grave
- Dept. of Civil Engineering, COPPE/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Brazil
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- Department of Mathematics, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy
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- Dept. of Civil Engineering, COPPE/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Architettura, Università di Pavia, Italy
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fiocruz-Ba, Brazil
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Jorge DCP, Oliveira JF, Miranda JGV, Andrade RFS, Pinho STR. Estimating the effective reproduction number for heterogeneous models using incidence data. R Soc Open Sci 2022; 9:220005. [PMID: 36133147 DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6167795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2022] [Accepted: 08/16/2022] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The effective reproduction number, R ( t ) , plays a key role in the study of infectious diseases, indicating the current average number of new infections caused by an infected individual in an epidemic process. Estimation methods for the time evolution of R ( t ) , using incidence data, rely on the generation interval distribution, g(τ), which is usually obtained from empirical data or theoretical studies using simple epidemic models. However, for systems that present heterogeneity, either on the host population or in the expression of the disease, there is a lack of data and of a suitable general methodology to obtain g(τ). In this work, we use mathematical models to bridge this gap. We present a general methodology for obtaining explicit expressions of the reproduction numbers and the generation interval distributions, within and between model sub-compartments provided by an arbitrary compartmental model. Additionally, we present the appropriate expressions to evaluate those reproduction numbers using incidence data. To highlight the relevance of such methodology, we apply it to the spread of COVID-19 in municipalities of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Using two meta-population models, we estimate the reproduction numbers and the contributions of each municipality in the generation of cases in all others.
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- D C P Jorge
- Instituto de Física Teórica, Universidade Estadual Paulista-UNESP, R. Dr. Teobaldo Ferraz 271, São Paulo 01140-070, Brazil
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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Jorge DCP, Oliveira JF, Miranda JGV, Andrade RFS, Pinho STR. Estimating the effective reproduction number for heterogeneous models using incidence data. R Soc Open Sci 2022; 9:220005. [PMID: 36133147 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5822669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2022] [Accepted: 08/16/2022] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
Abstract
The effective reproduction number, R ( t ) , plays a key role in the study of infectious diseases, indicating the current average number of new infections caused by an infected individual in an epidemic process. Estimation methods for the time evolution of R ( t ) , using incidence data, rely on the generation interval distribution, g(τ), which is usually obtained from empirical data or theoretical studies using simple epidemic models. However, for systems that present heterogeneity, either on the host population or in the expression of the disease, there is a lack of data and of a suitable general methodology to obtain g(τ). In this work, we use mathematical models to bridge this gap. We present a general methodology for obtaining explicit expressions of the reproduction numbers and the generation interval distributions, within and between model sub-compartments provided by an arbitrary compartmental model. Additionally, we present the appropriate expressions to evaluate those reproduction numbers using incidence data. To highlight the relevance of such methodology, we apply it to the spread of COVID-19 in municipalities of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Using two meta-population models, we estimate the reproduction numbers and the contributions of each municipality in the generation of cases in all others.
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- D C P Jorge
- Instituto de Física Teórica, Universidade Estadual Paulista-UNESP, R. Dr. Teobaldo Ferraz 271, São Paulo 01140-070, Brazil
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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Paixao ES, Rodrigues LC, Costa MDCN, de Carvalho-Sauer RDCO, Oliveira WK, Cardim LL, Schuler-Faccini L, Andrade RFS, Rodrigues MS, Brickley EB, Veiga RV, Costa LC, Carmo EH, Smeeth L, Barreto ML, Teixeira MG. Population-based surveillance for congenital zika virus syndrome: a latent class analysis of recorded cases from 2015-2018. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 2022; 22:530. [PMID: 35768806 PMCID: PMC9245223 DOI: 10.1186/s12884-022-04860-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2022] [Accepted: 06/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Objective This study aims to describe clinical findings and determine the medium-term survival of congenital zika syndrome (CZS) suspected cases. Methods A retrospective cohort study using routine register-based linked data. It included all suspected cases of CZS born in Brazil from January 1, 2015, to December 31, 2018, and followed up from birth until death, 36 months, or December 31, 2018, whichever came first. Latent class analysis was used to cluster unconfirmed cases into classes with similar combinations of anthropometry at birth, imaging findings, maternally reported rash, region, and year of birth. Kaplan–Meier curves were plotted, and Cox proportional hazards models were fitted to determine mortality up to 36 months. Results We followed 11,850 suspected cases of CZS, of which 28.3% were confirmed, 9.3% inconclusive and 62.4% unconfirmed. Confirmed cases had almost two times higher mortality when compared with unconfirmed cases. Among unconfirmed cases, we identified three distinct clusters with different mortality trajectories. The highest mortality risk was observed in those with abnormal imaging findings compatible with congenital infections (HR = 12.6; IC95%8.8–18.0) and other abnormalities (HR = 11.6; IC95%8.6–15.6) compared with those with normal imaging findings. The risk was high in those with severe microcephaly (HR = 8.2; IC95%6.4–10.6) and macrocephaly (HR = 6.6; IC95%4.5–9.7) compared with normal head size. Conclusion Abnormal imaging and head circumference appear to be the main drivers of the increased mortality among suspected cases of CZS. We suggest identifying children who are more likely to die and have a greater need to optimise interventions and resource allocation regardless of the final diagnoses. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12884-022-04860-3.
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- Enny S Paixao
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel St, London, WC1E 7HT, UK. .,Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
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- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel St, London, WC1E 7HT, UK.,Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.,Instituto de Saude Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Ministry of Defense Hospital das Armed Forces, Technical Directorate of Education and Research, Brasília, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Genetics Department, Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.,Medical Genetics Service, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel St, London, WC1E 7HT, UK
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.,Instituto de Saude Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.,Instituto de Saude Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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Paixao ES, Cardim LL, Costa MCN, Brickley EB, de Carvalho-Sauer RCO, Carmo EH, Andrade RFS, Rodrigues MS, Veiga RV, Costa LC, Moore CA, França GVA, Smeeth L, Rodrigues LC, Barreto ML, Teixeira MG. Mortality from Congenital Zika Syndrome - Nationwide Cohort Study in Brazil. N Engl J Med 2022; 386:757-767. [PMID: 35196428 PMCID: PMC7612437 DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa2101195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Prenatal exposure to Zika virus has potential teratogenic effects, with a wide spectrum of clinical presentation referred to as congenital Zika syndrome. Data on survival among children with congenital Zika syndrome are limited. METHODS In this population-based cohort study, we used linked, routinely collected data in Brazil, from January 2015 through December 2018, to estimate mortality among live-born children with congenital Zika syndrome as compared with those without the syndrome. Kaplan-Meier curves and survival models were assessed with adjustment for confounding and with stratification according to gestational age, birth weight, and status of being small for gestational age. RESULTS A total of 11,481,215 live-born children were followed to 36 months of age. The mortality rate was 52.6 deaths (95% confidence interval [CI], 47.6 to 58.0) per 1000 person-years among live-born children with congenital Zika syndrome, as compared with 5.6 deaths (95% CI, 5.6 to 5.7) per 1000 person-years among those without the syndrome. The mortality rate ratio among live-born children with congenital Zika syndrome, as compared with those without the syndrome, was 11.3 (95% CI, 10.2 to 12.4). Among infants born before 32 weeks of gestation or with a birth weight of less than 1500 g, the risks of death were similar regardless of congenital Zika syndrome status. Among infants born at term, those with congenital Zika syndrome were 14.3 times (95% CI, 12.4 to 16.4) as likely to die as those without the syndrome (mortality rate, 38.4 vs. 2.7 deaths per 1000 person-years). Among infants with a birth weight of 2500 g or greater, those with congenital Zika syndrome were 12.9 times (95% CI, 10.9 to 15.3) as likely to die as those without the syndrome (mortality rate, 32.6 vs. 2.5 deaths per 1000 person-years). The burden of congenital anomalies, diseases of the nervous system, and infectious diseases as recorded causes of deaths was higher among live-born children with congenital Zika syndrome than among those without the syndrome. CONCLUSIONS The risk of death was higher among live-born children with congenital Zika syndrome than among those without the syndrome and persisted throughout the first 3 years of life. (Funded by the Ministry of Health of Brazil and others.).
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- Enny S Paixao
- From the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (E.S.P., E.B.B., L.S., L.C.R.); the Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health, Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (E.S.P., L.L.C., M.C.N.C., E.H.C., R.F.S.A., M.S.R., R.V.V., L.C.C., L.C.R., M.L.B., M.G.T.), and Instituto de Saude Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia (M.C.N.C., M.L.B., M.G.T.), Salvador, the East Regional Health Center of the State Health Secretariat of Bahia, Santo Antonio de Jesus (R.C.O.C.-S.), and the Secretariat of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Brasilia (G.V.A.F.) - all in Brazil; and the Division of Birth Defects and Infant Disorders, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (C.A.M.)
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- From the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (E.S.P., E.B.B., L.S., L.C.R.); the Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health, Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (E.S.P., L.L.C., M.C.N.C., E.H.C., R.F.S.A., M.S.R., R.V.V., L.C.C., L.C.R., M.L.B., M.G.T.), and Instituto de Saude Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia (M.C.N.C., M.L.B., M.G.T.), Salvador, the East Regional Health Center of the State Health Secretariat of Bahia, Santo Antonio de Jesus (R.C.O.C.-S.), and the Secretariat of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Brasilia (G.V.A.F.) - all in Brazil; and the Division of Birth Defects and Infant Disorders, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (C.A.M.)
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- From the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (E.S.P., E.B.B., L.S., L.C.R.); the Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health, Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (E.S.P., L.L.C., M.C.N.C., E.H.C., R.F.S.A., M.S.R., R.V.V., L.C.C., L.C.R., M.L.B., M.G.T.), and Instituto de Saude Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia (M.C.N.C., M.L.B., M.G.T.), Salvador, the East Regional Health Center of the State Health Secretariat of Bahia, Santo Antonio de Jesus (R.C.O.C.-S.), and the Secretariat of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Brasilia (G.V.A.F.) - all in Brazil; and the Division of Birth Defects and Infant Disorders, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (C.A.M.)
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- From the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (E.S.P., E.B.B., L.S., L.C.R.); the Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health, Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (E.S.P., L.L.C., M.C.N.C., E.H.C., R.F.S.A., M.S.R., R.V.V., L.C.C., L.C.R., M.L.B., M.G.T.), and Instituto de Saude Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia (M.C.N.C., M.L.B., M.G.T.), Salvador, the East Regional Health Center of the State Health Secretariat of Bahia, Santo Antonio de Jesus (R.C.O.C.-S.), and the Secretariat of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Brasilia (G.V.A.F.) - all in Brazil; and the Division of Birth Defects and Infant Disorders, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (C.A.M.)
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- From the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (E.S.P., E.B.B., L.S., L.C.R.); the Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health, Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (E.S.P., L.L.C., M.C.N.C., E.H.C., R.F.S.A., M.S.R., R.V.V., L.C.C., L.C.R., M.L.B., M.G.T.), and Instituto de Saude Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia (M.C.N.C., M.L.B., M.G.T.), Salvador, the East Regional Health Center of the State Health Secretariat of Bahia, Santo Antonio de Jesus (R.C.O.C.-S.), and the Secretariat of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Brasilia (G.V.A.F.) - all in Brazil; and the Division of Birth Defects and Infant Disorders, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (C.A.M.)
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- From the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (E.S.P., E.B.B., L.S., L.C.R.); the Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health, Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (E.S.P., L.L.C., M.C.N.C., E.H.C., R.F.S.A., M.S.R., R.V.V., L.C.C., L.C.R., M.L.B., M.G.T.), and Instituto de Saude Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia (M.C.N.C., M.L.B., M.G.T.), Salvador, the East Regional Health Center of the State Health Secretariat of Bahia, Santo Antonio de Jesus (R.C.O.C.-S.), and the Secretariat of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Brasilia (G.V.A.F.) - all in Brazil; and the Division of Birth Defects and Infant Disorders, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (C.A.M.)
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- From the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (E.S.P., E.B.B., L.S., L.C.R.); the Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health, Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (E.S.P., L.L.C., M.C.N.C., E.H.C., R.F.S.A., M.S.R., R.V.V., L.C.C., L.C.R., M.L.B., M.G.T.), and Instituto de Saude Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia (M.C.N.C., M.L.B., M.G.T.), Salvador, the East Regional Health Center of the State Health Secretariat of Bahia, Santo Antonio de Jesus (R.C.O.C.-S.), and the Secretariat of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Brasilia (G.V.A.F.) - all in Brazil; and the Division of Birth Defects and Infant Disorders, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (C.A.M.)
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- From the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (E.S.P., E.B.B., L.S., L.C.R.); the Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health, Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (E.S.P., L.L.C., M.C.N.C., E.H.C., R.F.S.A., M.S.R., R.V.V., L.C.C., L.C.R., M.L.B., M.G.T.), and Instituto de Saude Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia (M.C.N.C., M.L.B., M.G.T.), Salvador, the East Regional Health Center of the State Health Secretariat of Bahia, Santo Antonio de Jesus (R.C.O.C.-S.), and the Secretariat of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Brasilia (G.V.A.F.) - all in Brazil; and the Division of Birth Defects and Infant Disorders, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (C.A.M.)
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- From the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (E.S.P., E.B.B., L.S., L.C.R.); the Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health, Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (E.S.P., L.L.C., M.C.N.C., E.H.C., R.F.S.A., M.S.R., R.V.V., L.C.C., L.C.R., M.L.B., M.G.T.), and Instituto de Saude Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia (M.C.N.C., M.L.B., M.G.T.), Salvador, the East Regional Health Center of the State Health Secretariat of Bahia, Santo Antonio de Jesus (R.C.O.C.-S.), and the Secretariat of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Brasilia (G.V.A.F.) - all in Brazil; and the Division of Birth Defects and Infant Disorders, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (C.A.M.)
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- From the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (E.S.P., E.B.B., L.S., L.C.R.); the Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health, Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (E.S.P., L.L.C., M.C.N.C., E.H.C., R.F.S.A., M.S.R., R.V.V., L.C.C., L.C.R., M.L.B., M.G.T.), and Instituto de Saude Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia (M.C.N.C., M.L.B., M.G.T.), Salvador, the East Regional Health Center of the State Health Secretariat of Bahia, Santo Antonio de Jesus (R.C.O.C.-S.), and the Secretariat of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Brasilia (G.V.A.F.) - all in Brazil; and the Division of Birth Defects and Infant Disorders, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (C.A.M.)
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- From the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (E.S.P., E.B.B., L.S., L.C.R.); the Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health, Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (E.S.P., L.L.C., M.C.N.C., E.H.C., R.F.S.A., M.S.R., R.V.V., L.C.C., L.C.R., M.L.B., M.G.T.), and Instituto de Saude Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia (M.C.N.C., M.L.B., M.G.T.), Salvador, the East Regional Health Center of the State Health Secretariat of Bahia, Santo Antonio de Jesus (R.C.O.C.-S.), and the Secretariat of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Brasilia (G.V.A.F.) - all in Brazil; and the Division of Birth Defects and Infant Disorders, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (C.A.M.)
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- From the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (E.S.P., E.B.B., L.S., L.C.R.); the Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health, Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (E.S.P., L.L.C., M.C.N.C., E.H.C., R.F.S.A., M.S.R., R.V.V., L.C.C., L.C.R., M.L.B., M.G.T.), and Instituto de Saude Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia (M.C.N.C., M.L.B., M.G.T.), Salvador, the East Regional Health Center of the State Health Secretariat of Bahia, Santo Antonio de Jesus (R.C.O.C.-S.), and the Secretariat of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Brasilia (G.V.A.F.) - all in Brazil; and the Division of Birth Defects and Infant Disorders, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (C.A.M.)
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- From the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (E.S.P., E.B.B., L.S., L.C.R.); the Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health, Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (E.S.P., L.L.C., M.C.N.C., E.H.C., R.F.S.A., M.S.R., R.V.V., L.C.C., L.C.R., M.L.B., M.G.T.), and Instituto de Saude Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia (M.C.N.C., M.L.B., M.G.T.), Salvador, the East Regional Health Center of the State Health Secretariat of Bahia, Santo Antonio de Jesus (R.C.O.C.-S.), and the Secretariat of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Brasilia (G.V.A.F.) - all in Brazil; and the Division of Birth Defects and Infant Disorders, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (C.A.M.)
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- From the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (E.S.P., E.B.B., L.S., L.C.R.); the Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health, Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (E.S.P., L.L.C., M.C.N.C., E.H.C., R.F.S.A., M.S.R., R.V.V., L.C.C., L.C.R., M.L.B., M.G.T.), and Instituto de Saude Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia (M.C.N.C., M.L.B., M.G.T.), Salvador, the East Regional Health Center of the State Health Secretariat of Bahia, Santo Antonio de Jesus (R.C.O.C.-S.), and the Secretariat of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Brasilia (G.V.A.F.) - all in Brazil; and the Division of Birth Defects and Infant Disorders, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (C.A.M.)
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- From the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (E.S.P., E.B.B., L.S., L.C.R.); the Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health, Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (E.S.P., L.L.C., M.C.N.C., E.H.C., R.F.S.A., M.S.R., R.V.V., L.C.C., L.C.R., M.L.B., M.G.T.), and Instituto de Saude Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia (M.C.N.C., M.L.B., M.G.T.), Salvador, the East Regional Health Center of the State Health Secretariat of Bahia, Santo Antonio de Jesus (R.C.O.C.-S.), and the Secretariat of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Brasilia (G.V.A.F.) - all in Brazil; and the Division of Birth Defects and Infant Disorders, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (C.A.M.)
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- From the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (E.S.P., E.B.B., L.S., L.C.R.); the Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health, Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (E.S.P., L.L.C., M.C.N.C., E.H.C., R.F.S.A., M.S.R., R.V.V., L.C.C., L.C.R., M.L.B., M.G.T.), and Instituto de Saude Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia (M.C.N.C., M.L.B., M.G.T.), Salvador, the East Regional Health Center of the State Health Secretariat of Bahia, Santo Antonio de Jesus (R.C.O.C.-S.), and the Secretariat of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Brasilia (G.V.A.F.) - all in Brazil; and the Division of Birth Defects and Infant Disorders, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (C.A.M.)
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Bilal U, de Castro CP, Alfaro T, Barrientos-Gutierrez T, Barreto ML, Leveau CM, Martinez-Folgar K, Miranda JJ, Montes F, Mullachery P, Pina MF, Rodriguez DA, dos Santos GF, Andrade RFS, Diez Roux AV. Scaling of mortality in 742 metropolitan areas of the Americas. Sci Adv 2021; 7:eabl6325. [PMID: 34878846 PMCID: PMC8654292 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abl6325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2021] [Accepted: 10/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
We explored how mortality scales with city population size using vital registration and population data from 742 cities in 10 Latin American countries and the United States. We found that more populated cities had lower mortality (sublinear scaling), driven by a sublinear pattern in U.S. cities, while Latin American cities had similar mortality across city sizes. Sexually transmitted infections and homicides showed higher rates in larger cities (superlinear scaling). Tuberculosis mortality behaved sublinearly in U.S. and Mexican cities and superlinearly in other Latin American cities. Other communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional deaths, and deaths due to noncommunicable diseases were generally sublinear in the United States and linear or superlinear in Latin America. Our findings reveal distinct patterns across the Americas, suggesting no universal relation between city size and mortality, pointing to the importance of understanding the processes that explain heterogeneity in scaling behavior or mortality to further advance urban health policies.
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- Usama Bilal
- Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Fiocruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Institute of Physics, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Escuela de Salud Pública, Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile
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- Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Fiocruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Institute of Collective Health, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Instituto de Producción, Economía y Trabajo, Universidad Nacional de Lanús, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
- School of Medicine, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
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- Department of Industrial Engineering, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Institute for Information and Communication on Health—ICICT/FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- i3S—Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Fiocruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Economics Faculty, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Fiocruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Institute of Physics, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Marinho EBS, Bassrei A, Andrade RFS. Extended Methodology for DFA and DCCA: Application of Automatic Search Procedure and Correlation Map to the Weierstrass-Mandelbrot Functions. AN ACAD BRAS CIENC 2021; 93:e20200859. [PMID: 34705940 DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765202120200859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2020] [Accepted: 04/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Detrended fluctuation analysis and detrended cross-correlation analysis are used in this study to identify and characterize correlated data. The objective of these two techniques is to separate different fluctuations from the contributions due to external trends by evaluating the autocorrelation and cross-correlation exponents, in order to determine if scale properties persist with the size of the series. Two new methodologies were extended from cross-correlation coefficients for local analysis, which we call the \textit{automatic search procedure.
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- Euler B S Marinho
- Universidade Federal da Bahia, CPGG/IGEO, Rua Barão de Jeremoabo, s/n, Ondina, 40170-115 Salvador, BA, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal da Bahia, CPGG/IGEO, Rua Barão de Jeremoabo, s/n, Ondina, 40170-115 Salvador, BA, Brazil.,Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia de Geofísica do Petróleo, Rua Barão de Jeremoabo, s/n, Ondina, 40170-115 Salvador, BA, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal da Bahia, Instituto de Física, Rua Barão de Jeremoabo, s/n, Ondina, 40210-340 Salvador, BA, Brazil
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Jorge DCP, Rodrigues MS, Silva MS, Cardim LL, da Silva NB, Silveira IH, Silva VAF, Pereira FAC, de Azevedo AR, Amad AAS, Pinho STR, Andrade RFS, Ramos PIP, Oliveira JF. Assessing the nationwide impact of COVID-19 mitigation policies on the transmission rate of SARS-CoV-2 in Brazil. Epidemics 2021; 35:100465. [PMID: 33984687 DOI: 10.1101/2020.06.26.20140780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2020] [Revised: 03/13/2021] [Accepted: 04/30/2021] [Indexed: 05/25/2023] Open
Abstract
COVID-19 is now identified in almost all countries in the world, with poorer regions being particularly more disadvantaged to efficiently mitigate the impacts of the pandemic. In the absence of efficient therapeutics or large-scale vaccination, control strategies are currently based on non-pharmaceutical interventions, comprising changes in population behavior and governmental interventions, among which the prohibition of mass gatherings, closure of non-essential establishments, quarantine and movement restrictions. In this work we analyzed the effects of 707 governmental interventions published up to May 22, 2020, and population adherence thereof, on the dynamics of COVID-19 cases across all 27 Brazilian states, with emphasis on state capitals and remaining inland cities. A generalized SEIR (Susceptible, Exposed, Infected and Removed) model with a time-varying transmission rate (TR), that considers transmission by asymptomatic individuals, is presented. We analyze the effect of both the extent of enforced measures across Brazilian states and population movement on the changes in the TR and effective reproduction number. The social mobility reduction index, a measure of population movement, together with the stringency index, adapted to incorporate the degree of restrictions imposed by governmental regulations, were used in conjunction to quantify and compare the effects of varying degrees of policy strictness across Brazilian states. Our results show that population adherence to social distance recommendations plays an important role for the effectiveness of interventions and represents a major challenge to the control of COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries.
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- Daniel C P Jorge
- Instituto de Fısica, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Instituto de Fısica, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Bahia, Brazil; Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Bahia, Brazil
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- Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- College of Engineering, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
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- Instituto de Fısica, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Instituto de Fısica, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil; Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Bahia, Brazil; Centre of Mathematics of the University of Porto (CMUP), Department of Mathematics, Porto, Portugal.
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Jorge DCP, Rodrigues MS, Silva MS, Cardim LL, da Silva NB, Silveira IH, Silva VAF, Pereira FAC, de Azevedo AR, Amad AAS, Pinho STR, Andrade RFS, Ramos PIP, Oliveira JF. Assessing the nationwide impact of COVID-19 mitigation policies on the transmission rate of SARS-CoV-2 in Brazil. Epidemics 2021; 35:100465. [PMID: 33984687 PMCID: PMC8106524 DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2021.100465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2020] [Revised: 03/13/2021] [Accepted: 04/30/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
COVID-19 is now identified in almost all countries in the world, with poorer regions being particularly more disadvantaged to efficiently mitigate the impacts of the pandemic. In the absence of efficient therapeutics or large-scale vaccination, control strategies are currently based on non-pharmaceutical interventions, comprising changes in population behavior and governmental interventions, among which the prohibition of mass gatherings, closure of non-essential establishments, quarantine and movement restrictions. In this work we analyzed the effects of 707 governmental interventions published up to May 22, 2020, and population adherence thereof, on the dynamics of COVID-19 cases across all 27 Brazilian states, with emphasis on state capitals and remaining inland cities. A generalized SEIR (Susceptible, Exposed, Infected and Removed) model with a time-varying transmission rate (TR), that considers transmission by asymptomatic individuals, is presented. We analyze the effect of both the extent of enforced measures across Brazilian states and population movement on the changes in the TR and effective reproduction number. The social mobility reduction index, a measure of population movement, together with the stringency index, adapted to incorporate the degree of restrictions imposed by governmental regulations, were used in conjunction to quantify and compare the effects of varying degrees of policy strictness across Brazilian states. Our results show that population adherence to social distance recommendations plays an important role for the effectiveness of interventions and represents a major challenge to the control of COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries.
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- Daniel C P Jorge
- Instituto de Fısica, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Instituto de Fısica, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Bahia, Brazil; Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Bahia, Brazil
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- Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- College of Engineering, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
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- Instituto de Fısica, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Instituto de Fısica, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil; Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Bahia, Brazil; Centre of Mathematics of the University of Porto (CMUP), Department of Mathematics, Porto, Portugal.
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Veiga RV, Schuler-Faccini L, França GVA, Andrade RFS, Teixeira MG, Costa LC, Paixão ES, Costa MDCN, Barreto ML, Oliveira JF, Oliveira WK, Cardim LL, Rodrigues MS. Classification algorithm for congenital Zika Syndrome: characterizations, diagnosis and validation. Sci Rep 2021; 11:6770. [PMID: 33762667 PMCID: PMC7990918 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-86361-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2020] [Accepted: 03/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Zika virus was responsible for the microcephaly epidemic in Brazil which began in October 2015 and brought great challenges to the scientific community and health professionals in terms of diagnosis and classification. Due to the difficulties in correctly identifying Zika cases, it is necessary to develop an automatic procedure to classify the probability of a CZS case from the clinical data. This work presents a machine learning algorithm capable of achieving this from structured and unstructured available data. The proposed algorithm reached 83% accuracy with textual information in medical records and image reports and 76% accuracy in classifying data without textual information. Therefore, the proposed algorithm has the potential to classify CZS cases in order to clarify the real effects of this epidemic, as well as to contribute to health surveillance in monitoring possible future epidemics.
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- Rafael V Veiga
- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. .,Instituto de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.,Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.,Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.,London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England, United Kingdom
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.,Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.,Department of Mathematics, Centre of Mathematics of the University of Porto (CMUP), Porto, Portugal
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- Hospital das Forças Armadas, Ministério da Defesa, Distrito Federal, Brasília, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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Dos Santos CTG, Vieira AP, Salinas SR, Andrade RFS. Real-space renormalization-group treatment of the Maier-Saupe-Zwanzig model for biaxial nematic structures. Phys Rev E 2021; 103:032111. [PMID: 33862734 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.103.032111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2020] [Accepted: 02/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
Abstract
The Maier-Saupe-Zwanzig model for the nematic phase transitions in liquid crystals is investigated in a diamond hierarchical lattice. The model takes into account a parameter to describe the biaxiality of the microscopic units. Also, a suitably chosen external field is added to the Hamiltonian to allow the determination of critical parameters associated with the nematic phase transitions. Using the transfer-matrix technique, the free energy and its derivatives are obtained in terms of recursion relations between successive generations of the hierarchical lattice. In addition, a real-space renormalization-group approach is developed to obtain the critical parameters of the same model system. Results of both methods are in excellent agreement. There are indications of two continuous phase transitions. One of them corresponds to a uniaxial-isotropic transition, in the class of universality of the three-state Potts model on the diamond hierarchical lattice. The transition between the biaxial and the uniaxial phases is in the universality class of the Ising model on the same lattice.
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- Cícero T G Dos Santos
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40170-115 Salvador, Brazil.,Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Sertão Pernambucano, 56302-100 Petrolina, Brazil
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- Universidade de Sao Paulo, Instituto de Fisica, Rua do Matao, 1371, 05508-090 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade de Sao Paulo, Instituto de Fisica, Rua do Matao, 1371, 05508-090 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40170-115 Salvador, Brazil.,Centre for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 41745-715 Salvador, Brazil
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Oliveira JF, Jorge DCP, Veiga RV, Rodrigues MS, Torquato MF, da Silva NB, Fiaccone RL, Cardim LL, Pereira FAC, de Castro CP, Paiva ASS, Amad AAS, Lima EABF, Souza DS, Pinho STR, Ramos PIP, Andrade RFS. Mathematical modeling of COVID-19 in 14.8 million individuals in Bahia, Brazil. Nat Commun 2021; 12:333. [PMID: 33436608 PMCID: PMC7803757 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19798-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2020] [Accepted: 10/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
Abstract
COVID-19 is affecting healthcare resources worldwide, with lower and middle-income countries being particularly disadvantaged to mitigate the challenges imposed by the disease, including the availability of a sufficient number of infirmary/ICU hospital beds, ventilators, and medical supplies. Here, we use mathematical modelling to study the dynamics of COVID-19 in Bahia, a state in northeastern Brazil, considering the influences of asymptomatic/non-detected cases, hospitalizations, and mortality. The impacts of policies on the transmission rate were also examined. Our results underscore the difficulties in maintaining a fully operational health infrastructure amidst the pandemic. Lowering the transmission rate is paramount to this objective, but current local efforts, leading to a 36% decrease, remain insufficient to prevent systemic collapse at peak demand, which could be accomplished using periodic interventions. Non-detected cases contribute to a ∽55% increase in R0. Finally, we discuss our results in light of epidemiological data that became available after the initial analyses.
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- Juliane F Oliveira
- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
- Centre of Mathematics of the University of Porto (CMUP), Department of Mathematics, Porto, Portugal.
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- College of Engineering, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK
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- Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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N. Costa MC, Cardim LL, Teixeira MG, Barreto ML, de Carvalho-Sauer RDCO, R. Barreto F, Itaparica Carvalho MS, Oliveira WK, França GVA, Carmo EH, Andrade RFS, Rodrigues MS, Veiga RV, Oliveira JF, Fernandes QHRF, Costa LC, Coelho GE, Paixao ES. Case Fatality Rate Related to Microcephaly Congenital Zika Syndrome and Associated Factors: A Nationwide Retrospective Study in Brazil †. Viruses 2020; 12:v12111228. [PMID: 33138282 PMCID: PMC7692842 DOI: 10.3390/v12111228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Revised: 10/26/2020] [Accepted: 10/27/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND The clinical manifestations of microcephaly/congenital Zika syndrome (microcephaly/CZS) have harmful consequences on the child's health, increasing vulnerability to childhood morbidity and mortality. This study analyzes the case fatality rate and child-maternal characteristics of cases and deaths related to microcephaly/CZS in Brazil, 2015-2017. METHODS Population-based study developed by linkage of three information systems. We estimate frequencies of cases, deaths, case fatality rate related to microcephaly/CZS according to child and maternal characteristics and causes of death. Multivariate logistic regression models were applied. RESULTS The microcephaly/CZS case fatality rate was 10% (95% CI 9.2-10.7). Death related to microcephaly/CZS was associated to moderate (OR = 2.15; 95% CI 1.63-2.83), and very low birth weight (OR = 3.77; 95% CI 2.20-6.46); late preterm births (OR = 1.65; 95% CI 1.21-2.23), Apgar < 7 at 1st (OR = 5.98; 95% CI 4.46-8.02) and 5th minutes (OR = 4.13; 95% CI 2.78-6.13), among others. CONCLUSIONS A high microcephaly/CZS case fatality rate and important factors associated with deaths related to this syndrome were observed. These results can alert health teams to these problems and increase awareness about the factors that may be associated with worse outcomes.
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- Maria Conceição N. Costa
- Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Salvador, Bahia ZC 41745-715, Brazil; (M.C.N.C.); (L.L.C.); (M.G.T.); (M.L.B.); (F.R.B.); (M.S.I.C.); (W.K.O.); (E.H.C.); (R.F.S.A.); (M.S.R.); (R.V.V.); (J.F.O.); (L.C.C.)
- Collective Health Institute, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia ZC 40110-040, Brazil;
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- Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Salvador, Bahia ZC 41745-715, Brazil; (M.C.N.C.); (L.L.C.); (M.G.T.); (M.L.B.); (F.R.B.); (M.S.I.C.); (W.K.O.); (E.H.C.); (R.F.S.A.); (M.S.R.); (R.V.V.); (J.F.O.); (L.C.C.)
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- Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Salvador, Bahia ZC 41745-715, Brazil; (M.C.N.C.); (L.L.C.); (M.G.T.); (M.L.B.); (F.R.B.); (M.S.I.C.); (W.K.O.); (E.H.C.); (R.F.S.A.); (M.S.R.); (R.V.V.); (J.F.O.); (L.C.C.)
- Collective Health Institute, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia ZC 40110-040, Brazil;
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- Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Salvador, Bahia ZC 41745-715, Brazil; (M.C.N.C.); (L.L.C.); (M.G.T.); (M.L.B.); (F.R.B.); (M.S.I.C.); (W.K.O.); (E.H.C.); (R.F.S.A.); (M.S.R.); (R.V.V.); (J.F.O.); (L.C.C.)
- Collective Health Institute, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia ZC 40110-040, Brazil;
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- Collective Health Institute, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia ZC 40110-040, Brazil;
- East Regional Health Center of the State Health Secretariat of Bahia, Santo Antonio de Jesus, Bahia ZC 44570-550, Brazil
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- Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Salvador, Bahia ZC 41745-715, Brazil; (M.C.N.C.); (L.L.C.); (M.G.T.); (M.L.B.); (F.R.B.); (M.S.I.C.); (W.K.O.); (E.H.C.); (R.F.S.A.); (M.S.R.); (R.V.V.); (J.F.O.); (L.C.C.)
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- Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Salvador, Bahia ZC 41745-715, Brazil; (M.C.N.C.); (L.L.C.); (M.G.T.); (M.L.B.); (F.R.B.); (M.S.I.C.); (W.K.O.); (E.H.C.); (R.F.S.A.); (M.S.R.); (R.V.V.); (J.F.O.); (L.C.C.)
- Municipal Health Secretariat of Salvador, Bahia ZC 40010-010, Brazil
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- Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Salvador, Bahia ZC 41745-715, Brazil; (M.C.N.C.); (L.L.C.); (M.G.T.); (M.L.B.); (F.R.B.); (M.S.I.C.); (W.K.O.); (E.H.C.); (R.F.S.A.); (M.S.R.); (R.V.V.); (J.F.O.); (L.C.C.)
- Technical Directorate of Education and Research, Ministry of Defense Hospital das Armed Forces, Brasília ZC 70675-731, Brazil
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- Secretariat of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Brasilia ZC 70070-040, Brazil;
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- Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Salvador, Bahia ZC 41745-715, Brazil; (M.C.N.C.); (L.L.C.); (M.G.T.); (M.L.B.); (F.R.B.); (M.S.I.C.); (W.K.O.); (E.H.C.); (R.F.S.A.); (M.S.R.); (R.V.V.); (J.F.O.); (L.C.C.)
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- Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Salvador, Bahia ZC 41745-715, Brazil; (M.C.N.C.); (L.L.C.); (M.G.T.); (M.L.B.); (F.R.B.); (M.S.I.C.); (W.K.O.); (E.H.C.); (R.F.S.A.); (M.S.R.); (R.V.V.); (J.F.O.); (L.C.C.)
- Physics Institute, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia ZC 40210-340, Brazil
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- Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Salvador, Bahia ZC 41745-715, Brazil; (M.C.N.C.); (L.L.C.); (M.G.T.); (M.L.B.); (F.R.B.); (M.S.I.C.); (W.K.O.); (E.H.C.); (R.F.S.A.); (M.S.R.); (R.V.V.); (J.F.O.); (L.C.C.)
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- Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Salvador, Bahia ZC 41745-715, Brazil; (M.C.N.C.); (L.L.C.); (M.G.T.); (M.L.B.); (F.R.B.); (M.S.I.C.); (W.K.O.); (E.H.C.); (R.F.S.A.); (M.S.R.); (R.V.V.); (J.F.O.); (L.C.C.)
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- Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Salvador, Bahia ZC 41745-715, Brazil; (M.C.N.C.); (L.L.C.); (M.G.T.); (M.L.B.); (F.R.B.); (M.S.I.C.); (W.K.O.); (E.H.C.); (R.F.S.A.); (M.S.R.); (R.V.V.); (J.F.O.); (L.C.C.)
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- Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Salvador, Bahia ZC 41745-715, Brazil; (M.C.N.C.); (L.L.C.); (M.G.T.); (M.L.B.); (F.R.B.); (M.S.I.C.); (W.K.O.); (E.H.C.); (R.F.S.A.); (M.S.R.); (R.V.V.); (J.F.O.); (L.C.C.)
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- Department of Communicable Diseases and Environmental Determinants of Health, Neglected, Tropical and Vector-Borne Diseases, Pan-American Health Organization/World Health Organization, Washington, WA 20037, USA;
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- Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Salvador, Bahia ZC 41745-715, Brazil; (M.C.N.C.); (L.L.C.); (M.G.T.); (M.L.B.); (F.R.B.); (M.S.I.C.); (W.K.O.); (E.H.C.); (R.F.S.A.); (M.S.R.); (R.V.V.); (J.F.O.); (L.C.C.)
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK
- Correspondence:
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Pinho STR, Pereira SM, Miranda JGV, Duarte TA, Nery JS, de Oliveira MG, Freitas MYGS, De Almeida NA, Moreira FB, Gomes RBC, Kerr L, Kendall C, Gomes MGM, Bessa TCB, Andrade RFS, Barreto ML. Investigating extradomiciliary transmission of tuberculosis: An exploratory approach using social network patterns of TB cases and controls and the genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis (Edinb) 2020; 125:102010. [PMID: 33166778 DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2020.102010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2020] [Revised: 09/30/2020] [Accepted: 10/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
Abstract
Extradomiciliary contacts have been overlooked in the study of TB transmission due to difficulties in identifying actual contacts in large populations. Complex network analysis provides a framework to model the structure of contacts, specially extradomiciliary ones. We conducted a study of incident sputum-positive TB cases and healthy controls occurring in a moderate TB burden city. Cases and controls were interviewed to obtain data regarding the usual locations of residence, work, study, and leisure. Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated from sputum was genotyped. The collected data were used to build networks based on a framework of putative social interactions indicating possible TB transmission. A user-friendly open source environment (GraphTube) was setup to extract information from the collected data. Networks based on the likelihood of patient-patient, patient-healthy, and healthy-healthy contacts were setup, depending on a constraint of geographical distance of places attended by the volunteers. Using a threshold for the geographical distance of 300 m, the differences between TB cases and controls are revealed. Several clusters formed by social network nodes with high genotypic similarity were characterized. The developed framework provided consistent results and can be used to support the targeted search of potentially infected individuals and to help to understand the TB transmission.
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- Suani T R Pinho
- Instituto De Física - UFBA. R. Barão De Jeremoabo, S/n. Ondina, 40170-115, Salvador, BA, Brazil.
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- Instituto De Saúde Coletiva - UFBA. R. Basílio da Gama, S/n. Canela, 40110-040, Salvador, BA, Brazil.
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- Instituto De Física - UFBA. R. Barão De Jeremoabo, S/n. Ondina, 40170-115, Salvador, BA, Brazil.
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- Instituto De Ciências da Saúde - UFBA. Av. Reitor Miguel Calmon, S/n. Canela, 40231-300, Salvador, BA, Brazil.
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- Instituto De Saúde Coletiva - UFBA. R. Basílio da Gama, S/n. Canela, 40110-040, Salvador, BA, Brazil.
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- Universidade Estadual De Feira De Santana. Av. Transnordestina, S/n. Novo Horizonte, 44036-900, Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil.
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- Universidade Estadual De Feira De Santana. Av. Transnordestina, S/n. Novo Horizonte, 44036-900, Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil.
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- Serviço Nacional De Aprendizagem Industrial - SENAI. R, Henrique Dias. Roma, 40444-000, Salvador, BA, Brazil.
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- Instituto De Física - UFBA. R. Barão De Jeremoabo, S/n. Ondina, 40170-115, Salvador, BA, Brazil.
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- Instituto De Saúde Coletiva - UFBA. R. Basílio da Gama, S/n. Canela, 40110-040, Salvador, BA, Brazil.
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- Faculdade De Medicina - UFC. R. Alexandre Baraúna, 949. Rodolfo Teófilo, 60430-160, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
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- School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Tulane University, 1440 Canal St, New Orleans, LA, 70112, United States.
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- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK, Pembroke Pl, Liverpool L3 5QA, Reino Unido, UK.
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- Instituto Gonçalo Moniz - IGM/FIOCRUZ. R. Waldemar Falcão, 121. Candeal, 40296-710, Salvador, BA, Brazil.
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- Instituto De Física - UFBA. R. Barão De Jeremoabo, S/n. Ondina, 40170-115, Salvador, BA, Brazil.
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- Centro de Integração de Dados e Conhecimentos para Saúde - CIDACS/FIOCRUZ, Parque Tecnológico Edf. Tecnocentro. Rua Mundo, 121, Salvador, BA, Brazil.
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Oliveira JF, Rodrigues MS, Skalinski LM, Santos AES, Costa LC, Cardim LL, Paixão ES, Costa MDCN, Oliveira WK, Barreto ML, Teixeira MG, Andrade RFS. Interdependence between confirmed and discarded cases of dengue, chikungunya and Zika viruses in Brazil: A multivariate time-series analysis. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0228347. [PMID: 32012191 PMCID: PMC6996800 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0228347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2019] [Accepted: 01/13/2020] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
Abstract
The co-circulation of different arboviruses in the same time and space poses a significant threat to public health given their rapid geographic dispersion and serious health, social, and economic impact. Therefore, it is crucial to have high quality of case registration to estimate the real impact of each arboviruses in the population. In this work, a Vector Autoregressive (VAR) model was developed to investigate the interrelationships between discarded and confirmed cases of dengue, chikungunya, and Zika in Brazil. We used data from the Brazilian National Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN) from 2010 to 2017. There were three peaks in the series of dengue notification in this period occurring in 2013, 2015 and in 2016. The series of reported cases of both Zika and chikungunya reached their peak in late 2015 and early 2016. The VAR model shows that the Zika series have a significant impact on the dengue series and vice versa, suggesting that several discarded and confirmed cases of dengue could actually have been cases of Zika. The model also suggests that the series of confirmed and discarded chikungunya cases are almost independent of the cases of Zika, however, affecting the series of dengue. In conclusion, co-circulation of arboviruses with similar symptoms could have lead to misdiagnosed diseases in the surveillance system. We argue that the routinely use of mathematical and statistical models in association with traditional symptom-surveillance could help to decrease such errors and to provide early indication of possible future outbreaks. These findings address the challenges regarding notification biases and shed new light on how to handle reported cases based only in clinical-epidemiological criteria when multiples arboviruses co-circulate in the same population.
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- Juliane F. Oliveira
- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Centre of Mathematics of the University of Porto (CMUP), Department of Mathematics, Porto, Portugal
- * E-mail:
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil
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- Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil
- Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England, United Kingdom
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- Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde, Ministério da Saúde, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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Mascarenhas R, Ruziska FM, Moreira EF, Campos AB, Loiola M, Reis K, Trindade-Silva AE, Barbosa FAS, Salles L, Menezes R, Veiga R, Coutinho FH, Dutilh BE, Guimarães PR, Assis APA, Ara A, Miranda JGV, Andrade RFS, Vilela B, Meirelles PM. Integrating Computational Methods to Investigate the Macroecology of Microbiomes. Front Genet 2020; 10:1344. [PMID: 32010196 PMCID: PMC6979972 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2019.01344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2018] [Accepted: 12/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Studies in microbiology have long been mostly restricted to small spatial scales. However, recent technological advances, such as new sequencing methodologies, have ushered an era of large-scale sequencing of environmental DNA data from multiple biomes worldwide. These global datasets can now be used to explore long standing questions of microbial ecology. New methodological approaches and concepts are being developed to study such large-scale patterns in microbial communities, resulting in new perspectives that represent a significant advances for both microbiology and macroecology. Here, we identify and review important conceptual, computational, and methodological challenges and opportunities in microbial macroecology. Specifically, we discuss the challenges of handling and analyzing large amounts of microbiome data to understand taxa distribution and co-occurrence patterns. We also discuss approaches for modeling microbial communities based on environmental data, including information on biological interactions to make full use of available Big Data. Finally, we summarize the methods presented in a general approach aimed to aid microbiologists in addressing fundamental questions in microbial macroecology, including classical propositions (such as “everything is everywhere, but the environment selects”) as well as applied ecological problems, such as those posed by human induced global environmental changes.
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- Institute of Biology, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
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- Institute of Biology, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
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- Institute of Biology, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
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- Chemical Engineering Department, Polytechnic School of Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
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- Institute of Biology, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.,Department of Ecology, Biosciences Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Institute of Geology, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology, Biosciences Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.,Institute of Physics, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
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- Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Muniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil
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- Evolutionary Genomics Group, Departamento de Producción Vegetal y Microbiología, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, San Juan de Alicante, Spain
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- Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.,Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology, Biosciences Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Butantã, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology, Biosciences Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Butantã, Brazil
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- Institute of Mathematics, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
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- Institute of Physics, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
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- Institute of Physics, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.,Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Muniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil
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- Institute of Biology, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
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- Institute of Biology, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.,Department of Ecology, Biosciences Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Cajueiro DO, Mundim FN, Martins JIF, Sakowski PAM, Andrade RFS. Markov chain approach to model intertemporal choices and coverages in air transport markets. Phys Rev E 2019; 100:062303. [PMID: 31962539 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.100.062303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We develop a framework based on discrete-time Markov chains (MCs) to model the Brazilian air transport market networks. Our results suggest that in this market, economic activity explains the centralities of the airports and the players' choices. Periods of economic prosperity affect the air transport networks and they move from a hub-and-spoke topology towards a mixed point-to-point and hub-and-spoke topology. Furthermore, we use the MC transition and stationary probabilities to build geographical subgraphs that reveal (1) the most important routes, (2) the stability of these routes, (3) the most important flights, and (4) the airlines' specific market niches.
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- Daniel O Cajueiro
- Departamento de Economia, Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, 70910-900 Brasília, Brazil
- National Institute of Science and Technology for Complex Systems (INCT-SC), 22290-180 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) SEPN 515, 70770-504 Brasília, Brazil
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- Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) SEPN 515, 70770-504 Brasília, Brazil
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- Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) SEPN 515, 70770-504 Brasília, Brazil
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- National Institute of Science and Technology for Complex Systems (INCT-SC), 22290-180 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40170-115 Salvador, Brazil
- Centre for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Muniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), 41745-715 Salvador, Brazil
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Paixão ES, Rodrigues MS, Cardim LL, Oliveira JF, L C C, Costa MDCN, Barreto ML, Rodrigues LC, Smeeth L, Andrade RFS, Oliveira WK, Teixeira MG. Impact evaluation of Zika epidemic on congenital anomalies registration in Brazil: An interrupted time series analysis. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2019; 13:e0007721. [PMID: 31545803 PMCID: PMC6776346 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2019] [Revised: 10/03/2019] [Accepted: 08/19/2019] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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This study aimed to assess the impact of the Zika epidemic on the registration of birth defects in Brazil. We used an interrupted time series analysis design to identify changes in the trends in the registration of congenital anomalies. We obtained monthly data from Brazilian Live Birth Information System and used two outcome definitions: 1) rate of congenital malformation of the brain and eye (likely to be affected by Zika and its complications) 2) rate of congenital malformation not related to the brain or eye unlikely to be causally affected by Zika. The period between maternal infection with Zika and diagnosis of congenital abnormality attributable to the infection is around six months. We therefore used September 2015 as the interruption point in the time series, six months following March 2015 when cases of Zika started to increase. For the purposes of this analysis, we considered the period from January 2010 to September 2015 to be "pre-Zika event," and the period from just after September 2015 to December 2017 to be "post-Zika event." We found that immediately after the interruption point, there was a great increase in the notification rate of congenital anomalies of 14.9/10,000 live births in the brain and eye group and of 5.2/10,000 live births in the group not related with brain or eye malformations. This increase in reporting was in all regions of the country (except in the South) and especially in the Northeast. In the period "post-Zika event", unlike the brain and eye group which showed a monthly decrease, the group without brain or eye malformations showed a slow but significant increase (relative to the pre-Zika trend) of 0.2/10,000 live births. These findings suggest an overall improvement in the registration of birth malformations, including malformations that were not attributed to Zika, during and after the Zika epidemic.
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- Enny S Paixão
- Centro de Integração de Dados e Conhecimentos para Saúde, Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Muniz, Fiocruz, Salvador,Brazil.,Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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- Centro de Integração de Dados e Conhecimentos para Saúde, Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Muniz, Fiocruz, Salvador,Brazil
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- Centro de Integração de Dados e Conhecimentos para Saúde, Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Muniz, Fiocruz, Salvador,Brazil
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- Centro de Integração de Dados e Conhecimentos para Saúde, Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Muniz, Fiocruz, Salvador,Brazil
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- Centro de Integração de Dados e Conhecimentos para Saúde, Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Muniz, Fiocruz, Salvador,Brazil
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- Centro de Integração de Dados e Conhecimentos para Saúde, Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Muniz, Fiocruz, Salvador,Brazil.,Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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- Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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- Centro de Integração de Dados e Conhecimentos para Saúde, Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Muniz, Fiocruz, Salvador,Brazil.,Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde, Ministério da Saúde, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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- Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Allen-Perkins A, Serrano AB, de Assis TA, Andrade RFS. Approach to the inverse problem of superdiffusion on finite systems based on time-dependent long-range navigation. Phys Rev E 2019; 100:030101. [PMID: 31640011 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.100.030101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2019] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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This work addresses the superdiffusive motion of a random walker on a discrete finite-size substrate. It is shown that, with the inclusion of suitably tuned time-dependent probability of large distance jumps over the substrate, the mean square displacement (MSD) of the walker has a power-law dependence on time with a previously chosen exponent γ>1. The developed framework provides an exact solution to the inverse problem, i.e., an adequate jump probability function leading to a preestablished solution is evaluated. Using the Markov Chain (MC) formalism, an exact map for the time dependence of the probability function is derived, which depends on the topology of the substrate and on the chosen value of γ. While the formalism imposes no restriction on the substrate, being applicable from ordered Euclidean lattices to complex networks, results for the cycle graph and two-dimensional torus are highlighted. It is also shown that, based on the previously derived probability function, MSD values resulting from direct numerical simulations agree quite well with those solely obtained within the MC framework.
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- Alfonso Allen-Perkins
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40170-115 Salvador, Brazil.,Complex System Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040-Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40170-115 Salvador, Brazil.,Complex System Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040-Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40170-115 Salvador, Brazil.,Centre for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Muniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), 41745-715 Salvador, Brazil
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Luis EEM, de Assis TA, Ferreira SC, Andrade RFS. Local roughness exponent in the nonlinear molecular-beam-epitaxy universality class in one dimension. Phys Rev E 2019; 99:022801. [PMID: 30934348 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.99.022801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We report local roughness exponents, α_{loc}, for three interface growth models in one dimension which are believed to belong to the nonlinear molecular-beam-epitaxy (nMBE) universality class represented by the Villain-Lais-Das Sarma (VLDS) stochastic equation. We applied an optimum detrended fluctuation analysis (ODFA) [Luis et al., Phys. Rev. E 95, 042801 (2017)2470-004510.1103/PhysRevE.95.042801] and compared the outcomes with standard detrending methods. We observe in all investigated models that ODFA outperforms the standard methods providing exponents in the narrow interval α_{loc}^{}∈[0.96,0.98] quantitatively consistent with two-loop renormalization group predictions for the VLDS equation. In particular, these exponent values are calculated for the Clarke-Vvdensky and Das Sarma-Tamborenea models characterized by very strong corrections to the scaling, for which large deviations of these values had been reported. Our results strongly support the absence of anomalous scaling in the nMBE universality class and the existence of corrections in the form α_{loc}^{}=1-ε of the one-loop renormalization group analysis of the VLDS equation.
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- Edwin E Mozo Luis
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Campus Universitário da Federação, Rua Barão de Jeremoabo s/n, 40170-115, Salvador, BA, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Campus Universitário da Federação, Rua Barão de Jeremoabo s/n, 40170-115, Salvador, BA, Brazil
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Minas Gerais, 36570-900, Viçosa, Brazil.,National Institute of Science and Technology for Complex Systems, 22290-180, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Campus Universitário da Federação, Rua Barão de Jeremoabo s/n, 40170-115, Salvador, BA, Brazil.,National Institute of Science and Technology for Complex Systems, 22290-180, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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de Castro CP, Luković M, Pompanin G, Andrade RFS, Herrmann HJ. Schramm-Loewner evolution and perimeter of percolation clusters of correlated random landscapes. Sci Rep 2018; 8:5286. [PMID: 29588474 PMCID: PMC5869597 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-23489-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2017] [Accepted: 03/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Motivated by the fact that many physical landscapes are characterized by long-range height-height correlations that are quantified by the Hurst exponent H, we investigate the statistical properties of the iso-height lines of correlated surfaces in the framework of Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE). We show numerically that in the continuum limit the external perimeter of a percolating cluster of correlated surfaces with H ∈ [-1, 0] is statistically equivalent to SLE curves. Our results suggest that the external perimeter also retains the Markovian properties, confirmed by the absence of time correlations in the driving function and the fact that the latter is Gaussian distributed for any specific time. We also confirm that for all H the variance of the winding angle grows logarithmically with size.
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- C P de Castro
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Campus Universitário da Federacção, Salvador, BA, 40170-115, Brazil.
- Computational Physics for Engineering Materials, IfB, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, CH-8093, Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Computational Physics for Engineering Materials, IfB, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, CH-8093, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Computational Physics for Engineering Materials, IfB, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, CH-8093, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Campus Universitário da Federacção, Salvador, BA, 40170-115, Brazil
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- Computational Physics for Engineering Materials, IfB, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, CH-8093, Zurich, Switzerland
- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, 60451-970, Brazil
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Góes-Neto A, Diniz MVC, Carvalho DS, Bomfim GC, Duarte AA, Brzozowski JA, Petit Lobão TC, Pinho STR, El-Hani CN, Andrade RFS. Comparison of complex networks and tree-based methods of phylogenetic analysis and proposal of a bootstrap method. PeerJ 2018; 6:e4349. [PMID: 29441237 PMCID: PMC5808311 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2017] [Accepted: 01/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Complex networks have been successfully applied to the characterization and modeling of complex systems in several distinct areas of Biological Sciences. Nevertheless, their utilization in phylogenetic analysis still needs to be widely tested, using different molecular data sets and taxonomic groups, and, also, by comparing complex networks approach to current methods in phylogenetic analysis. In this work, we compare all the four main methods of phylogenetic analysis (distance, maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian) with a complex networks method that has been used to provide a phylogenetic classification based on a large number of protein sequences as those related to the chitin metabolic pathway and ATP-synthase subunits. In order to perform a close comparison to these methods, we selected Basidiomycota fungi as the taxonomic group and used a high-quality, manually curated and characterized database of chitin synthase sequences. This enzymatic protein plays a key role in the synthesis of one of the exclusive features of the fungal cell wall: the presence of chitin. The communities (modules) detected by the complex network method corresponded exactly to the groups retrieved by the phylogenetic inference methods. Additionally, we propose a bootstrap method for the complex network approach. The statistical results we have obtained with this method were also close to those obtained using traditional bootstrap methods.
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- Aristóteles Góes-Neto
- Department of Microbiology, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Department of Microbiology, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Institute of Biology, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Institute of Biology, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Department of Technology, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil
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- Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Human Sciences, Federal University of Fronteira Sul, Erechim, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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- Institute of Physics, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Institute of Biology, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.,National Institute of Science & Technology in Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies in Ecology and Evolution (IN-TREE), Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Institute of Physics, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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Allen-Perkins A, de Assis TA, Pastor JM, Andrade RFS. Relaxation time of the global order parameter on multiplex networks: The role of interlayer coupling in Kuramoto oscillators. Phys Rev E 2017; 96:042312. [PMID: 29347610 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.96.042312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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This work considers the time scales associated with the global order parameter and the interlayer synchronization of coupled Kuramoto oscillators on multiplexes. For two-layer multiplexes with an initially high degree of synchronization in each layer, the difference between the average phases in each layer is analyzed from two different perspectives: the spectral analysis and the nonlinear Kuramoto model. Both viewpoints confirm that the prior time scales are inversely proportional to the interlayer coupling strength. Thus, increasing the interlayer coupling always shortens the transient regimes of both the global order parameter and the interlayer synchronization. Surprisingly, the analytical results show that the convergence of the global order parameter is faster than the interlayer synchronization, and the latter is generally faster than the global synchronization of the multiplex. The formalism also outlines the effects of frequencies on the difference between the average phases of each layer, and it identifies the conditions for an oscillatory behavior. Computer simulations are in fairly good agreement with the analytical findings, and they reveal that the time scale of the global order parameter is half the size of the time scale of the multiplex, if not smaller.
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- Alfonso Allen-Perkins
- Complex System Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040-Madrid, Spain.,Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-210 Salvador, Brazil
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- Complex System Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040-Madrid, Spain.,Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-210 Salvador, Brazil
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- Complex System Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040-Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-210 Salvador, Brazil
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Souza AMC, Andrade RFS, Araújo NAM, Vezzani A, Herrmann HJ. How the site degree influences quantum probability on inhomogeneous substrates. Phys Rev E 2017; 95:042130. [PMID: 28505780 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.95.042130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We investigate the effect of the node degree and energy E on the electronic wave function for regular and irregular structures, namely, regular lattices, disordered percolation clusters, and complex networks. We evaluate the dependency of the quantum probability for each site on its degree. For a class of biregular structures formed by two disjoint subsets of sites sharing the same degree, the probability P_{k}(E) of finding the electron on any site with k neighbors is independent of E≠0, a consequence of an exact analytical result that we prove for any bipartite lattice. For more general nonbipartite structures, P_{k}(E) may depend on E as illustrated by an exact evaluation of a one-dimensional semiregular lattice: P_{k}(E) is large for small values of E when k is also small, and its maximum values shift towards large values of |E| with increasing k. Numerical evaluations of P_{k}(E) for two different types of percolation clusters and the Apollonian network suggest that this observed feature might be generally valid.
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- A M C Souza
- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, 49100-000 Sao Cristovao, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-210 Salvador, Brazil
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- Departamento de Física, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, P-1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal.,Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional, Universidade de Lisboa, P-1749-003 Lisboa, Portugal
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- IMEM-CNR, Parco Area delle Scienze, 37/A-43124 Parma, Italy.,Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Informatiche, Università di Parma, via G.P. Usberti, 7/A-43124 Parma, Italy
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- Computational Physics, IfB, ETH-Hönggerberg, Schafmattstrasse 6, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.,Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Campus do Pici, 60455-760 Fortaleza, Brazil
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de Castro CP, Luković M, Andrade RFS, Herrmann HJ. The influence of statistical properties of Fourier coefficients on random Gaussian surfaces. Sci Rep 2017; 7:1961. [PMID: 28512343 PMCID: PMC5434017 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-02135-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2016] [Accepted: 03/15/2017] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Many examples of natural systems can be described by random Gaussian surfaces. Much can be learned by analyzing the Fourier expansion of the surfaces, from which it is possible to determine the corresponding Hurst exponent and consequently establish the presence of scale invariance. We show that this symmetry is not affected by the distribution of the modulus of the Fourier coefficients. Furthermore, we investigate the role of the Fourier phases of random surfaces. In particular, we show how the surface is affected by a non-uniform distribution of phases.
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- C P de Castro
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Campus Universitário da Federação, Salvador, BA, 40170-115, Brazil. .,Computational Physics for Engineering Materials, IfB, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, CH-8093, Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Computational Physics for Engineering Materials, IfB, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, CH-8093, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Campus Universitário da Federação, Salvador, BA, 40170-115, Brazil
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- Computational Physics for Engineering Materials, IfB, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, CH-8093, Zurich, Switzerland.,Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, 60451-970, Brazil
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Diffusion in a multiplex depends on the specific link distribution between the nodes in each layer, but also on the set of the intralayer and interlayer diffusion coefficients. In this work we investigate, in a quantitative way, the efficiency of multiplex diffusion as a function of the topological similarity among multiplex layers. This similarity is measured by the distance between layers, taken among the pairs of layers. Results are presented for a simple two-layer multiplex, where one of the layers is held fixed, while the other one can be rewired in a controlled way in order to increase or decrease the interlayer distance. The results indicate that, for fixed values of all intra- and interlayer diffusion coefficients, a large interlayer distance generally enhances the global multiplex diffusion, providing a topological mechanism to control the global diffusive process. For some sets of networks, we develop an algorithm to identify the most sensitive nodes in the rewirable layer, so that changes in a small set of connections produce a drastic enhancement of the global diffusion of the whole multiplex system.
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- Alfredo B Serrano
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-210 Salvador, Brazil
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- Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
- Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems, University of Zaragoza, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-210 Salvador, Brazil
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Oliveira RS, Andrade RFS. Ferromagnetic model on the Apollonian packing. Phys Rev E 2017; 95:012123. [PMID: 28208363 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.95.012123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2016] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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This work investigates the influence of geometrical features of the Apollonian packing (AP) on the behavior of magnetic models. The proposed model differs from previous investigations on the Apollonian network (AN), where the magnetic coupling constants depend only on the properties of the network structure defined by the packing, but not on quantitative aspects of its geometry. In opposition to the exact scale invariance observed in the AN, the circle's sizes in the AP are scaled by different factors when one goes from one generation to the next, requiring a different approach for the evaluation of the model's properties. If the nearest-neighbors coupling constants are defined by J_{i,j}∼1/(r_{i}+r_{j})^{α}, where r_{i} indicates the radius of the circle i containing the node i, the results for the correlation length ξ indicate that the model's behavior depend on α. In the thermodynamic limit, the uniform model (α=0) is characterized by ξ→∞ for all T>0. Our results indicate that, on increasing α, the system changes to an uncorrelated pattern, with finite ξ at all T>0, at a value α_{c}≃0.743. For any fixed value of α, no finite temperature singularity in the specific heat is observed, indicating that changes in the magnetic ordering occur only when α is changed. This is corroborated by the results for the magnetization and magnetic susceptibility.
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- Rafael S Oliveira
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-210, Salvador, Brazil.,Centro de Formação de Professores, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia, 45300-000, Amargosa, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-210, Salvador, Brazil
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Girón A, Saiz H, Bacelar FS, Andrade RFS, Gómez-Gardeñes J. Synchronization unveils the organization of ecological networks with positive and negative interactions. Chaos 2016; 26:065302. [PMID: 27368792 DOI: 10.1063/1.4952960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Network science has helped to understand the organization principles of the interactions among the constituents of large complex systems. However, recently, the high resolution of the data sets collected has allowed to capture the different types of interactions coexisting within the same system. A particularly important example is that of systems with positive and negative interactions, a usual feature appearing in social, neural, and ecological systems. The interplay of links of opposite sign presents natural difficulties for generalizing typical concepts and tools applied to unsigned networks and, moreover, poses some questions intrinsic to the signed nature of the network, such as how are negative interactions balanced by positive ones so to allow the coexistence and survival of competitors/foes within the same system? Here, we show that synchronization phenomenon is an ideal benchmark for uncovering such balance and, as a byproduct, to assess which nodes play a critical role in the overall organization of the system. We illustrate our findings with the analysis of synthetic and real ecological networks in which facilitation and competitive interactions coexist.
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- Andrea Girón
- Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Zaragoza, E-50009 Zaragoza, Spain
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- UMR CNRS 6553 Ecosystems-Biodiversity-Evolution, University of Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, Bâtiment 14A, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France
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- Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-340 Salvador, Brazil
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- Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-340 Salvador, Brazil
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- Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Zaragoza, E-50009 Zaragoza, Spain
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Sousa AMYR, Vieira AP, Prado CPC, Andrade RFS. Controlled recovery of phylogenetic communities from an evolutionary model using a network approach. Phys Rev E 2016; 93:042317. [PMID: 27176322 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.93.042317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2015] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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This works reports the use of a complex network approach to produce a phylogenetic classification tree of a simple evolutionary model. This approach has already been used to treat proteomic data of actual extant organisms, but an investigation of its reliability to retrieve a traceable evolutionary history is missing. The used evolutionary model includes key ingredients for the emergence of groups of related organisms by differentiation through random mutations and population growth, but purposefully omits other realistic ingredients that are not strictly necessary to originate an evolutionary history. This choice causes the model to depend only on a small set of parameters, controlling the mutation probability and the population of different species. Our results indicate that for a set of parameter values, the phylogenetic classification produced by the used framework reproduces the actual evolutionary history with a very high average degree of accuracy. This includes parameter values where the species originated by the evolutionary dynamics have modular structures. In the more general context of community identification in complex networks, our model offers a simple setting for evaluating the effects, on the efficiency of community formation and identification, of the underlying dynamics generating the network itself.
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- Arthur M Y R Sousa
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-210, Salvador, Brazil and Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, G3-52 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Yokohama 226-8502, Japan
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 66318, 05314-970, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 66318, 05314-970, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-210, Salvador, Brazil
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Paiva ASS, Oliveira RS, Andrade RFS. Two-phase fluid flow in geometric packing. Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci 2015; 373:rsta.2015.0111. [PMID: 26527816 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/27/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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We investigate how a plug of obstacles inside a two-dimensional channel affects the drainage of high viscous fluid (oil) when the channel is invaded by a less viscous fluid (water). The plug consists of an Apollonian packing with, at most, 17 circles of different sizes, which is intended to model an inhomogeneous porous region. The work aims to quantify the amount of retained oil in the region where the flow is influenced by the packing. The investigation, carried out with the help of the computational fluid dynamics package ANSYS-FLUENT, is based on the integration of the complete set of equations of motion. The study considers the effect of both the injection speed and the number and size of obstacles, which directly affects the porosity of the system. The results indicate a complex dependence in the fraction of retained oil on the velocity and geometric parameters. The regions where the oil remains trapped is very sensitive to the number of circles and their size, which influence in different ways the porosity of the system. Nevertheless, at low values of Reynolds and capillary numbers Re<4 and n(c)≃10(-5), the overall expected result that the volume fraction of oil retained decreases with increasing porosity is recovered. A direct relationship between the injection speed and the fraction of oil is also obtained.
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-210 Salvador, Brazil Centro de Formação de Professores, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia, 45300-000 Amargosa, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-210 Salvador, Brazil
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Carvalho DS, Andrade RFS, Pinho STR, Góes-Neto A, Lobão TCP, Bomfim GC, El-Hani CN. What are the Evolutionary Origins of Mitochondria? A Complex Network Approach. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0134988. [PMID: 26332127 PMCID: PMC4557972 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2015] [Accepted: 07/15/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Mitochondria originated endosymbiotically from an Alphaproteobacteria-like ancestor. However, it is still uncertain which extant group of Alphaproteobacteria is phylogenetically closer to the mitochondrial ancestor. The proposed groups comprise the order Rickettsiales, the family Rhodospirillaceae, and the genus Rickettsia. In this study, we apply a new complex network approach to investigate the evolutionary origins of mitochondria, analyzing protein sequences modules in a critical network obtained through a critical similarity threshold between the studied sequences. The dataset included three ATP synthase subunits (4, 6, and 9) and its alphaproteobacterial homologs (b, a, and c). In all the subunits, the results gave no support to the hypothesis that Rickettsiales are closely related to the mitochondrial ancestor. Our findings support the hypothesis that mitochondria share a common ancestor with a clade containing all Alphaproteobacteria orders, except Rickettsiales.
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- Daniel S. Carvalho
- General Biology Department, Institute of Biology, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- General Physics Department, Institute of Physics, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- General Physics Department, Institute of Physics, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Biological Sciences Department, State University of Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil
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- Mathematics Department, Institute of Mathematics, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- General Biology Department, Institute of Biology, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- General Biology Department, Institute of Biology, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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Sampaio Filho CIN, Moreira AA, Andrade RFS, Herrmann HJ, Andrade JS. Mandala networks: ultra-small-world and highly sparse graphs. Sci Rep 2015; 5:9082. [PMID: 25765450 PMCID: PMC4357991 DOI: 10.1038/srep09082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2014] [Accepted: 12/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The increasing demands in security and reliability of infrastructures call for the optimal design of their embedded complex networks topologies. The following question then arises: what is the optimal layout to fulfill best all the demands? Here we present a general solution for this problem with scale-free networks, like the Internet and airline networks. Precisely, we disclose a way to systematically construct networks which are robust against random failures. Furthermore, as the size of the network increases, its shortest path becomes asymptotically invariant and the density of links goes to zero, making it ultra-small world and highly sparse, respectively. The first property is ideal for communication and navigation purposes, while the second is interesting economically. Finally, we show that some simple changes on the original network formulation can lead to an improved topology against malicious attacks.
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Ceará, 60451-970 Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-340 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Ceará, 60451-970 Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
- Computational Physics for Engineering Materials, IfB, ETH Zurich, Schafmattstrasse 6, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Ceará, 60451-970 Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
- Computational Physics for Engineering Materials, IfB, ETH Zurich, Schafmattstrasse 6, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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Oliveira RS, Andrade JS, Andrade RFS. Fluid flow through packings of rotating obstacles. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2015; 91:033002. [PMID: 25871197 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.91.033002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We investigate through numerical simulation the nonstationary flow of a Newtonian fluid through a two-dimensional channel filled with an array of circular obstacles of distinct sizes. The disks may rotate around their respective centers, modeling a nonstationary, inhomogeneous porous medium. Obstacle sizes and positions are defined by the geometry of an Apollonian packing (AP). To allow for fluid flow, the radii of the disks are uniformly reduced by a factor 0.6≤s≤0.8 for assemblies corresponding to the four first AP generations. The investigation is targeted to elucidate the main features of the rotating regime as compared to the fixed disk condition. It comprises the evaluation of the region of validity of Darcy's law as well as the study of the nonlinear hydraulic resistance as a function of the channel Reynolds number, the reduction factor s, and the AP generation. Depending on a combination of these factors, the resistance of rotating disks may be larger or smaller than that of the corresponding static case. We also analyze the flow redistribution in the interdisk channels as a result of the rotation pattern and characterize the angular velocity of the disks. Here, the striking feature is the emergence of a stable oscillatory behavior of the angular velocity for almost all disks that are inserted into the assemblies after the second generation.
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- Rafael S Oliveira
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-210 Salvador, Brazil
- Centro de Formação de Professores, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia, 45300-000 Amargosa, Brazil
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Campus do Pici, 60455-760 Fortaleza, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-210 Salvador, Brazil
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Nobre FD, Curado EMF, Souza AMC, Andrade RFS. Consistent thermodynamic framework for interacting particles by neglecting thermal noise. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2015; 91:022135. [PMID: 25768486 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.91.022135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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An effective temperature θ, conjugated to a generalized entropy s(q), was introduced recently for a system of interacting particles. Since θ presents values much higher than those of typical room temperatures T≪θ, the thermal noise can be neglected (T/θ≃0) in these systems. Moreover, the consistency of this definition, as well as of a form analogous to the first law of thermodynamics, du=θds(q)+δW, were verified lately by means of a Carnot cycle, whose efficiency was shown to present the usual form, η=1-(θ(2)/θ(1)). Herein we explore further the heat contribution δQ=θds(q) by proposing a way for a heat exchange between two such systems, as well as its associated thermal equilibrium. As a consequence, the zeroth principle is also established. Moreover, we consolidate the first-law proposal by following the usual procedure for obtaining different potentials, i.e., applying Legendre transformations for distinct pairs of independent variables. From these potentials we derive the equation of state, Maxwell relations, and define response functions. All results presented are shown to be consistent with those of standard thermodynamics for T>0.
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- Fernando D Nobre
- Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Rua Xavier Sigaud 150, 22290-180 Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil
- National Institute of Science and Technology for Complex Systems, Rua Xavier Sigaud, 150 22290-180 Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil
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- Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Rua Xavier Sigaud 150, 22290-180 Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil
- National Institute of Science and Technology for Complex Systems, Rua Xavier Sigaud, 150 22290-180 Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, 49100-000 São Cristóvão-SE, Brazil
- National Institute of Science and Technology for Complex Systems, Rua Xavier Sigaud, 150 22290-180 Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-340 Salvador-BA, Brazil
- National Institute of Science and Technology for Complex Systems, Rua Xavier Sigaud, 150 22290-180 Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil
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de Castro CP, de Assis TA, de Castilho CMC, Andrade RFS. Height distribution of equipotential lines in a region confined by a rough conducting boundary. J Phys Condens Matter 2014; 26:445007. [PMID: 25287641 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/26/44/445007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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This work considers the behavior of the height distributions of the equipotential lines in a region confined by two interfaces: a cathode with an irregular interface and a distant flat anode. Both boundaries, which are maintained at distinct and constant potential values, are assumed to be conductors. The morphology of the cathode interface results from the deposit of 2 × 10(4) monolayers that are produced using a single competitive growth model based on the rules of the Restricted Solid on Solid and Ballistic Deposition models, both of which belong to the Kadar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class. At each time step, these rules are selected with probability p and q = 1 - p. For several irregular profiles that depend on p, a family of equipotential lines is evaluated. The lines are characterized by the skewness and kurtosis of the height distribution. The results indicate that the skewness of the equipotential line increases when they approach the flat anode and this increase has a non-trivial convergence to a delta distribution that characterizes the equipotential line in a uniform electric field. The morphology of the equipotential lines is discussed; the discussion emphasizes their features for different ranges of p that correspond to positive, null and negative values of the coefficient of the non-linear term in the KPZ equation.
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- C P de Castro
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Campus Universitário da Federação, Rua Barão de Jeremoabo s/n, 40170-115, Salvador, BA, Brazil
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Silva VST, Andrade RFS, Salinas SR. Annealed Ising model with site dilution on self-similar structures. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2014; 90:052112. [PMID: 25493745 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.90.052112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We consider an Ising model on the triangular Apollonian network (AN), with a thermalized distribution of vacant sites. The statistical problem is formulated in a grand canonical ensemble, in terms of the temperature T and a chemical potential μ associated with the concentration of active magnetic sites. We use a well-known transfer-matrix method, with a number of adaptations, to write recursion relations between successive generations of this hierarchical structure. We also investigate the analogous model on the diamond hierarchical lattice (DHL). From the numerical analysis of the recursion relations, we obtain various thermodynamic quantities. In the μ→∞ limit, we reproduce the results for the uniform models: in the AN, the system is magnetically ordered at all temperatures, while in the DHL there is a ferromagnetic-paramagnetic transition at a finite value of T. Magnetic ordering, however, is shown to disappear for sufficiently large negative values of the chemical potential.
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- V S T Silva
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-210 Salvador, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-210 Salvador, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 66318, 05315-970 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Lopes JS, Rodrigues P, Pinho STR, Andrade RFS, Duarte R, Gomes MGM. Interpreting measures of tuberculosis transmission: a case study on the Portuguese population. BMC Infect Dis 2014; 14:340. [PMID: 24941996 PMCID: PMC4069091 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-14-340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2013] [Accepted: 06/09/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Background Tuberculosis remains a high burden for Human society despite considerable investments in its control. Unique features in the history of infection and transmission dynamics of tuberculosis pose serious limitations on the direct interpretation of surveillance data and call for models that incorporate latent processes and simulate specific interventions. Methods A transmission model was adjusted to the dataset of active tuberculosis cases reported in Portugal between 2002 and 2009. We estimated key transmission parameters from the data (i.e. time to diagnosis, treatment length, default proportion, proportion of pulmonary TB cases). Using the adjusted model to the Portuguese case, we estimated the total burden of tuberculosis in Portugal. We further performed sensitivity analysis to heterogeneities in susceptibility to infection and exposure intensity. Results We calculated a mean time to diagnose of 2.81 months and treatment length of 8.80 months in Portugal. The proportion defaulting treatment was calculated as 0.04 and the proportion of pulmonary cases as 0.75. Using these values, we estimated a TB burden of 1.6 million infected persons, corresponding to more than 15% of the Portuguese population. We further described the sensitivity of these estimates to heterogeneity. Conclusions We showed that the model reproduces well the observed dynamics of the Portuguese data, thus demonstrating its adequacy for devising control strategies for TB and predicting the effects of interventions.
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- Joao Sollari Lopes
- Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Apartado 14, 2781-901 Oeiras, Portugal.
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Curado EMF, Souza AMC, Nobre FD, Andrade RFS. Carnot cycle for interacting particles in the absence of thermal noise. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2014; 89:022117. [PMID: 25353432 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.89.022117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2013] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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A thermodynamic formalism is developed for a system of interacting particles under overdamped motion, which has been recently analyzed within the framework of nonextensive statistical mechanics. It amounts to expressing the interaction energy of the system in terms of a temperature θ, conjugated to a generalized entropy s(q), with q = 2. Since θ assumes much higher values than those of typical room temperatures T ≪ θ, the thermal noise can be neglected for this system (T/θ ≃ 0). This framework is now extended by the introduction of a work term δW which, together with the formerly defined heat contribution (δ Q = θ ds(q)), allows for the statement of a proper energy conservation law that is analogous to the first law of thermodynamics. These definitions lead to the derivation of an equation of state and to the characterization of s(q) adiabatic and θ isothermic transformations. On this basis, a Carnot cycle is constructed, whose efficiency is shown to be η = 1-(θ(2)/θ(1)), where θ(1) and θ(2) are the effective temperatures of the two isothermic transformations, with θ(1)>θ(2). The results for a generalized thermodynamic description of this system open the possibility for further physical consequences, like the realization of a thermal engine based on energy exchanges gauged by the temperature θ.
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- Evaldo M F Curado
- Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Rua Xavier Sigaud 150 22290-180, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and National Institute of Science and Technology for Complex Systems, Rua Xavier Sigaud 150 22290-180, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- National Institute of Science and Technology for Complex Systems, Rua Xavier Sigaud 150 22290-180, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, 49100-000, São Cristóvão, Sergipe, Brazil
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- Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Rua Xavier Sigaud 150 22290-180, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and National Institute of Science and Technology for Complex Systems, Rua Xavier Sigaud 150 22290-180, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- National Institute of Science and Technology for Complex Systems, Rua Xavier Sigaud 150 22290-180, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia 40210-340, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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Andrade RFS, Herrmann HJ. Percolation model with continuously varying exponents. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2013; 88:042122. [PMID: 24229131 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.88.042122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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This work analyzes a percolation model on the diamond hierarchical lattice (DHL), where the percolation transition is retarded by the inclusion of a probability of erasing specific connected structures. It has been inspired by the recent interest on the existence of other universality classes of percolation models. The exact scale invariance and renormalization properties of DHL leads to recurrence maps, from which analytical expressions for the critical exponents and precise numerical results in the limit of very large lattices can be derived. The critical exponents ν and β of the investigated model vary continuously as the erasing probability changes. An adequate choice of the erasing probability leads to the result ν=∞, like in some phase transitions involving vortex formation. The percolation transition is continuous, with β>0, but β can be as small as desired. The modified percolation model turns out to be equivalent to the Q→1 limit of a Potts model with specific long range interactions on the same lattice.
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- R F S Andrade
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-210 Salvador, Brazil
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de Assis TA, Benito RM, Losada JC, Andrade RFS, Miranda JGV, de Souza NC, de Castilho CMC, Mota FDB, Borondo F. Effect of the local morphology in the field emission properties of conducting polymer surfaces. J Phys Condens Matter 2013; 25:285106. [PMID: 23803282 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/25/28/285106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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In this work, we present systematic theoretical evidence of a relationship between the point local roughness exponent (PLRE) (which quantifies the heterogeneity of an irregular surface) and the cold field emission properties (indicated by the local current density and the macroscopic current density) of real polyaniline (PANI) surfaces, considered nowadays as very good candidates in the design of field emission devices. The latter are obtained from atomic force microscopy data. The electric field and potential are calculated in a region bounded by the rough PANI surface and a distant plane, both boundaries held at distinct potential values. We numerically solve Laplace's equation subject to appropriate Dirichlet's condition. Our results show that local roughness reveals the presence of specific sharp emitting spots with a smooth geometry, which are the main ones responsible (but not the only) for the emission efficiency of such surfaces for larger deposition times. Moreover, we have found, with a proper choice of a scale interval encompassing the experimentally measurable average grain length, a highly structured dependence of local current density on PLRE, considering different ticks of PANI surfaces.
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- T A de Assis
- Departamento de Química, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, E-28049 Madrid, Spain.
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Andrade RFS, Herrmann HJ. Exact evaluation of the cutting path length in a percolation model on a hierarchical network. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2013; 87:042113. [PMID: 23679379 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.87.042113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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This work presents an approach to evaluate the exact value of the fractal dimension of the cutting path d(f)(CP) on hierarchical structures with finite order of ramification. Our approach is based on a renormalization group treatment of the universality class of watersheds. By making use of the self-similar property, we show that d(f)(CP) depends only on the average cutting path (CP) of the first generation of the structure. For the simplest Wheastone hierarchical lattice (WHL), we present a mathematical proof. For a larger WHL structure, the exact value of d(f)(CP) is derived based on a computer algorithm that identifies the length of all possible CP's of the first generation.
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- R F S Andrade
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-210, Salvador, Brazil
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de Assis TA, de Castro CP, de Brito Mota F, de Castilho CMC, Andrade RFS. Distribution of scaled height in one-dimensional competitive growth profiles. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2012; 86:051607. [PMID: 23214793 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.86.051607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2012] [Revised: 09/03/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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This work investigates the scaled height distribution, ρ(q), of irregular profiles that are grown based on two sets of local rules: those of the restricted solid on solid (RSOS) and ballistic deposition (BD) models. At each time step, these rules are respectively chosen with probability p and r=1-p. Large-scale Monte Carlo simulations indicate that the system behaves differently in three succeeding intervals of values of p: I(B) ≈ [0,0.75),I(T) ≈ (0.75,0.9), and I(R) ≈ (0.9,1.0]. In I(B), the ballistic character prevails: the growth velocity υ(∞) decreases with p in a linear way, and similar behavior is found for Γ(∞) (p), the amplitude of the t(1/3)-fluctuations, which is measured from the second-order height cumulant. The distribution of scaled height fluctuations follows the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble (GOE) Tracy-Widom (TW) distribution with resolution roughly close to 10(-4). The skewness and kurtosis of the computed distribution coincide with those for TW distribution. Similar results are observed in the interval I(R), with prevalent RSOS features. In this case, the skewness become negative. In the transition interval I(T), the system goes smoothly from one regime to the other: the height distribution becomes apparently Gaussian, which motivates us to identify this phenomenon as a transition from Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) behavior to Edwards-Wilkinson (EW) behavior back to KPZ behavior.
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- T A de Assis
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Campus Universitário da Federação, 40170-115 Salvador, BA, Brazil.
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Andrade RFS, Rocha-Neto IC, Santos LBL, de Santana CN, Diniz MVC, Lobão TP, Goés-Neto A, Pinho STR, El-Hani CN. Detecting network communities: an application to phylogenetic analysis. PLoS Comput Biol 2011; 7:e1001131. [PMID: 21573202 PMCID: PMC3088654 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1001131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2010] [Accepted: 04/04/2011] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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This paper proposes a new method to identify communities in generally weighted
complex networks and apply it to phylogenetic analysis. In this case, weights
correspond to the similarity indexes among protein sequences, which can be used
for network construction so that the network structure can be analyzed to
recover phylogenetically useful information from its properties. The analyses
discussed here are mainly based on the modular character of protein similarity
networks, explored through the Newman-Girvan algorithm, with the help of the
neighborhood matrix . The most relevant
networks are found when the network topology changes abruptly revealing distinct
modules related to the sets of organisms to which the proteins belong. Sound
biological information can be retrieved by the computational routines used in
the network approach, without using biological assumptions other than those
incorporated by BLAST. Usually, all the main bacterial phyla and, in some cases,
also some bacterial classes corresponded totally (100%) or to a great
extent (>70%) to the modules. We checked for internal consistency in
the obtained results, and we scored close to 84% of matches for community
pertinence when comparisons between the results were performed. To illustrate
how to use the network-based method, we employed data for enzymes involved in
the chitin metabolic pathway that are present in more than 100 organisms from an
original data set containing 1,695 organisms, downloaded from GenBank on May 19,
2007. A preliminary comparison between the outcomes of the network-based method
and the results of methods based on Bayesian, distance, likelihood, and
parsimony criteria suggests that the former is as reliable as these commonly
used methods. We conclude that the network-based method can be used as a
powerful tool for retrieving modularity information from weighted networks,
which is useful for phylogenetic analysis. Complex weighted networks have been applied to uncover organizing principles of
complex biological, technological, and social systems. We propose herein a new
method to identify communities in such structures and apply it to phylogenetic
analysis. Recent studies using this theory in genomics and proteomics
contributed to the understanding of the structure and dynamics of cellular
complex interaction webs. Three main distinct molecular networks have been
investigated based on transcriptional and metabolic activity, and on protein
interaction. Here we consider the evolutionary relationship between proteins
throughout phylogeny, employing the complex network approach to perform a
comparative study of the enzymes related to the chitin metabolic pathway. We
show how the similarity index of protein sequences can be used for network
construction, and how the underlying structure is analyzed by the computational
routines of our method to recover useful and sound information for phylogenetic
studies. By focusing on the modular character of protein similarity networks, we
were successful in matching the identified networks modules to main bacterial
phyla, and even some bacterial classes. The network-based method reported here
can be used as a new powerful tool for identifying communities in complex
networks, retrieving useful information for phylogenetic studies.
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- Roberto F. S. Andrade
- Institute of Physics, Federal University of Bahia, Campus
Universitário de Ondina, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Institute of Mathematics, Federal University of Bahia, Campus
Universitário de Ondina, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Institute of Physics, Federal University of Bahia, Campus
Universitário de Ondina, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- National Institute for Space Research, São José dos Campos,
São Paulo, Brazil
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- Mediterranean Institute of Advanced Studies, IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Esporles
(Islas Baleares), Spain
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- Department of Biological Sciences, State University of Feira de Santana,
Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil
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- Institute of Mathematics, Federal University of Bahia, Campus
Universitário de Ondina, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Department of Biological Sciences, State University of Feira de Santana,
Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil
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- Institute of Physics, Federal University of Bahia, Campus
Universitário de Ondina, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Institute of Biology, Federal University of Bahia, Campus
Universitário de Ondina, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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Araújo NAM, Andrade RFS, Herrmann HJ. q-state Potts model on the Apollonian network. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2010; 82:046109. [PMID: 21230347 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.82.046109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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The q-state Potts model is studied on the Apollonian network with Monte Carlo simulations and the transfer matrix method. The spontaneous magnetization, correlation length, entropy, and specific heat are analyzed as a function of temperature for different number of states, q. Different scaling functions in temperature and q are proposed. A quantitative agreement is found between results from both methods. No critical behavior is observed in the thermodynamic limit for any number of states.
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- Nuno A M Araújo
- Computational Physics for Engineering Materials, IfB, ETH Zurich, Schafmattstr 6, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
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