Banca de DEFESA: PAULO ABILIO VARELLA LISBOA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : PAULO ABILIO VARELLA LISBOA
DATE: 30/03/2023
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: https://meet.google.com/ict-cwuw-akb
TITLE:

USE OF THE MOBILE APPLICATION FOR SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL (VICONSAGA) AS A TOOL FOR NOTIFICATION AND REGISTRATION OF CASES OF CANINE VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS

KEY WORDS:

Canine visceral leishmaniasis, dogs, epidemiological surveillance

 

PAGES: 132
BIG AREA: Ciências Agrárias
AREA: Medicina Veterinária
SUBÁREA: Medicina Veterinária Preventiva
SUMMARY:

Canine visceral leishmaniasis (CVL) is a chronic and fatal disease caused by the protozoan Leishmania infantum, which also infects humans and other animal species. Its transmission takes place by infected sandflies of the Lutzomyia longipalpis species, with dogs being the main domestic reservoir. Brazil currently does not have a real-time surveillance system for CVL notification and information on numbers of infected animals and injuries is flawed and undersized, not having the same centrality and similar mechanisms used in human health surveillance systems. CVL has major impacts on animal and human health, which, due to the lack of an integrated notification system, may not represent the trend curves of this disease and are often restricted to publications by educational and research institutions and technical information. A total of 477 records were made in the system based on training trips in surveillance and diagnosis of canine visceral leishmaniasis and data on confirmed cases of visceral leishmaniasis from the Ministry of Health. The inclusion of data allowed the construction and visualization of maps from the system to evaluate the distribution and georeferencing of cases, the inclusion of photos, videos and images from Google Earth. The application worked smoothly and even in areas where there was no signal, it allowed location from the mobile device's GPS data. All data collected from the application were imported into the surveillance and control platform without loss of data or information collected. The data obtained by the project allowed the construction of a spatial distribution map of CVL, which from the spatial analysis verified a higher concentration of CVL cases in the Northeast, North, Midwest and Southeast regions, coinciding with the same distribution of occurrence in human cases of human visceral leishmaniasis. The application allowed the construction of a form for registering cases and including data, allowing exportation in different formats for later analysis and identification. The use of the surveillance and control application (viconSaga mobile) proved to be a viable, low-cost, customizable tool, being an alternative for registering CVL cases, contributing to obtaining centralized data on CVL that will allow a set of actions for the knowledge and detection of the determinants and conditions of this disease in order to recommend prevention and control measures for CVL, suggesting a methodology that can be used nationwide by official surveillance services. The general objective of this study was to verify the effectiveness and usability of the ViconSaga mobile application as a data collection tool for the registration of CVL cases, and support for surveillance and control of canine visceral leishmaniasis. The study aimed to register cases of leishmaniasis in dogs from immunochromatographic serological tests, from training and qualification trips and epidemiological surveillance, in all regions of Brazil, performing georeferencing and a spatial analysis of CVL cases from of the application and platform records, Evaluate the efficiency of the mobile notification system through the platform for epidemiological studies., Evaluate the results obtained by the notification and inserted in the platform in relation to the official data of the health surveillance system and contribute to the perception of the LVC in Brazil

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2860277 - ISABELE DA COSTA ANGELO
Externo ao Programa - 387181 - ARGEMIRO SANAVRIA - UFRRJExterno ao Programa - 2181418 - CLAYTON BERNARDINELLI GITTI - UFRRJExterna à Instituição - KLENA SARGES MARRUAZ DA SILVA
Externo à Instituição - IAN PHILIPPO TANCREDI - UFMT