Spatiotemporal clustering, social inequities and the risk of leptospirosis in an endemic area of Brazil: a retrospective spatial modelling.
Katyucia Oliveira Crispim de SouzaJosé Augusto P GóesMatheus Santos MeloPaula M G LeiteLucas Almeida AndradeMarco Aurélio de Oliveira GóesCaíque Jordan Nunes RibeiroDamião da Conceição AraújoAndreia Freire de MenezesAllan Dantas Dos SantosPublished in: Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2021)
The data indicated the persistence of leptospirosis transmission, maintaining a pattern of high endemicity in some municipalities associated with social inequities. The study showed the temporal and spatial dynamics of the disease to better target specific actions for prevention and control.