Abstract

Climate can modulate human health at large spatial scales, but the influence of global, regional, and local environments remains poorly understood, especially for neglected diseases, such as mycoses. In this work, we present the correlation between climatic variables and hospitalizations for mycoses in Brazilian state capitals, evaluating the period of 2008 to 2016 at different time scales. The results indicate that climate modulates the hospitalizations for mycoses differently at annual and monthly time scales, with minimum temperature as a key climatic variable during periods of high prevalence in the 10 Brazilian capitals with the highest hospitalizations for mycoses rates. The greatest number of hospitalizations coincided with La Niña events, while a reduction was observed during El Niño events, thereby demonstrating the influence of the Pacific Interdecadal Climate Oscillation on the prevalence of mycoses in Brazil. At a regional scale, the mycoses burden in Brazil appears to respond differently to local and global climatic drivers.

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Title
Climate drivers of hospitalizations for mycoses in Brazil
Author
Silva Fabrício Brito 1 ; Santos Jessflan Rafael Nascimento 1 ; da Silva Letícia Chagas 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Gomes, Wolia Costa 1 ; Villis Paulo Cesar Mendes 1 ; Gomes Eliane dos Santos 2 ; Pinheiro Edilene de Araújo Diniz 3 ; Azevedo Conceição de Maria Pedrozo e Silva de 4 ; Dias Rosane da Silva 5 ; de Andrade, Monteiro Cristina 6 ; Santos Julliana Ribeiro Alves 1 

1  Mestrado em Meio Ambiente – Universidade CEUMA (UNICEUMA), São Luís, Brazil (GRID:grid.442152.4) (ISNI:0000 0004 0414 7982) 
2  Discente do Curso de Engenharia Ambiental – Universidade CEUMA (UNICEUMA), São Luís, Brazil (GRID:grid.442152.4) (ISNI:0000 0004 0414 7982) 
3  Mestrado em Meio Ambiente – Universidade CEUMA (UNICEUMA), São Luís, Brazil (GRID:grid.442152.4) (ISNI:0000 0004 0414 7982); Discente do Curso de Biomedicina – Universidade CEUMA (UNICEUMA), São Luís, Brazil (GRID:grid.442152.4) (ISNI:0000 0004 0414 7982) 
4  Mestrado em Ciências da Saúde – Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA), São Luís, Brazil (GRID:grid.411204.2) (ISNI:0000 0001 2165 7632) 
5  Mestrado em Gestão de Programas e Serviços de Saúde – Universidade CEUMA (UNICEUMA), São Luís, Brazil (GRID:grid.442152.4) (ISNI:0000 0004 0414 7982) 
6  Laboratório de Microbiologia Aplicada – Universidade CEUMA (UNICEUMA), São Luís, Brazil (GRID:grid.442152.4) (ISNI:0000 0004 0414 7982) 
Publication year
2019
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43353-w
ProQuest document ID
2220756226
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2019. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.