cohort of Pau da Lima residents
Initiatives
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The aim was to use global positioning system (GPS) tracking of urban slum residents to quantify their fine-scale movement patterns and evaluate their exposures to environmental sources of leptospirosis transmission.
Note: All published information has been collected from the article referenced in the Marker Paper box below. Therefore, there may be variations with more advanced versions of the study.
- Start Year
- 2014
- End Year
- 2014
- Funding
- Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (https://portal.fiocruz.br/en) and Secretariat of Health Surveillance,Brazilian Ministry of Health(http://portalms.saude.gov.br/vigilancia-em-saude),the Wilbur Downs Fellowship (https://publichealth.yale.edu/downs) [KAO],the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (https://yibs.yale.edu) [KAO],the Yale Council on Latin American and IberianStudies(https://clais.macmillan.yale.edu)[KAO], a fellowship (R25TW009337) funded by the Fogarty International Center and the National Institute of MentalHealth(https://www.fic.nih.gov/Programs/Pages/fulbright-fellowships.aspx)[JO]and grants from the National Institutes of Health(F31 AI114245,R01 AI052473,U01 AI088752,R01 TW009504, R25 TW009338) and by the WellcomeTrust [102330/Z/13/Z].
Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
Marker Paper
Owers KA, Odetunde J, de Matos RB, et al. Fine-scale GPS tracking to quantify human movement patterns and exposure to leptospires in the urban slum environment. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2018;12(8):e0006752. Published 2018 Aug 31. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0006752
PUBMED 30169513
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 109
- Number of participants with biosamples
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Supplementary Information
Timeline
participants from an ongoing cohort studyin an urban slumin Brazil
This study focused on a high-risk sub-cohort living at low elevation in a single valley. Residents at low elevation in this site have low socioeconomic status and live near open sewers and flood-prone areas, all features associated with leptospirosis infection. GPS study participants were drawn from cohort participants at least 15 years old due to the low incidence of leptospirosis in children. We recruited participants from four groups: young males (aged 15–34 years), young females (15–34 years), older males (aged ≥35 years), and older females (aged ≥35 years).
Selection Criteria
- Gender
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women
- Minimum age
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15
- Newborns
- Twins
- Countries
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- Brazil
- Territory
- Salvador
- Ethnic Origin
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- Health Status
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Recruitment
- Sources of recruitment
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- Specific population
- Specific Population
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- Other specific population : Pau da Lima is an urban slum in Salvador, the third largest city in Brazil. This slum, at the periphery of the city. This site is a high-transmission setting for leptospirosis.
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 109
- Number of participants with biosamples
Data Collection Event
Global positioning system (GPS) tracking of urban slum residents to quantify their fine-scale movement patterns and evaluate their exposures to environmental sources of leptospirosis transmission was conducted.
- Start Date
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2014-06
- End Date
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2014-09
- Data sources
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Geospatial technology
- Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) (e.g. GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, etc.)
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Geospatial technology