Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Tuberculosis and Latent Tuberculosis Infection Diagnosis in Healthcare Workers.

Objective: The aim of the study is to compare the prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection and tuberculosis (TB) in the prepandemic period (2017-2019) with the pandemic period (2020-2022), in a group of healthcare workers (HCWs).

Methods: This is a retrospective study. Data on TB diagnosis was retrieved from the hospital information system database.

Decrease in Health-Related Quality of Life and Post-COVID-19 Syndrome in Health Care Workers After SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Cohort Study.

Objectives: The aim of this study is to assess the persistence of symptoms, the prevalence of post-COVID-19 syndrome, and the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among health care workers (HCWs) 6 months after severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection.

Methods: A prospective cohort study was conducted. All HCWs with confirmed COVID-19 from January to June 2021 were invited to participate.

Reduction in COVID-19 prevalence in healthcare workers in a university hospital in southern Brazil after the start of vaccination.

Introduction: The quick spread of SARS-CoV-2 led to the development of vaccines that are capable of reducing infection and the number of more severe COVID-19 cases.

Aim: To assess COVID-19 prevalence among healthcare workers (HCWs) after vaccination against SARS-CoV-2.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study on the prevalence of COVID-19 diagnosis among 7523 HCWs vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 with CoronaVac and ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 in a university hospital, in southern Brazil, between January 18 and March 18, 2021.

Presenteeism among health care workers: literature review.

Presenteeism is an occupational and psychosocial phenomenon with negative impact on the work environment. In addition to causing losses in productivity losses, it also has implications for the state of health of workers. Therefore, presenteeism is likely to become a serious public health problem.

Tuberculosis in Health Care Workers and the Impact of Implementation of Hospital Infection-Control Measures.

: Most studies that have evaluated the impact of infection-control measures (ICM) reported a decrease in latent tuberculosis (TB) and not in TB. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of ICM on TB incidence among Health Care Workers (HCW's). We conducted a retrospective record review study in a general, tertiary care, university-affiliated hospital.

Night shift work, short sleep and obesity.

Background: Obesity is associated with increased general mortality and comorbidities, it is multifactorial and some evidence has shown that sleep duration and shift work may be implicated in its pathogenesis.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between shift work, quality of life and obesity among healthcare workers of a Brazilian University Hospital.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed from April 2013 to December 2014 with 200 workers of a University Hospital.

Shift work and its association with metabolic disorders.

Although the health burden of shift work has not been extensively studied, evidence suggests that it may affect the metabolic balance and cause obesity and other metabolic disorders. Sleep deprivation, circadian desynchronization and behavioral changes in diet and physical activity are among the most commonly mentioned factors in studies of the association between night work and metabolic disorders. Individual adaptation to night work depends greatly on personal factors such as family and social life, but occupational interventions may also make a positive contribution to the transition to shift work, such as exposure to bright lights during the night shift, melatonin use, shift regularity and clockwise rotation, and dietary adaptations for the metabolic needs of night workers.

Impact of water renewal on the residual effect of larvicides in the control of Aedes aegypti.

This study was carried out to evaluate the residual effect of three larvicides under laboratory conditions for 100 days in Aedes aegypti. The larval mortality rate was measured without water renewal or with daily water renewal (80%). With temephos, there was 100% mortality in both groups until the 70th day.

[Efficacy of fish as predators of Aedes aegypti larvae, under laboratory conditions].

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of fish as predators of the Aedes aegypti larvae in laboratory conditions.

Methods: The male and female of five different fish were included in the experiment. The tests to measure their consumption ability lasted five weeks for each species.