Correction: Maternal mortality associated with COVID-19 in Brazil in 2020 and 2021: Comparison with non-pregnant women and men.

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Serotypes and antimicrobial resistance of in children under 5 years of age pre- and post-pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduction in Paraguay.

remains a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide in children <5 years of age, even with advances in vaccination programmes. Reviewing and reporting trends in the distribution of pneumococcal serotypes and antimicrobial resistance in Paraguay will be useful for decision-making in public health..

Maternal mortality associated with COVID-19 in Brazil in 2020 and 2021: Comparison with non-pregnant women and men.

Objective: Mortality rates of pregnant and postpartum women grew in the second COVID-19 pandemic year. Our objective is to understand this phenomenon to avoid further deaths.

Methods: We collected data from SIVEP-Gripe, a nationwide Brazilian database containing surveillance data on all severe acute respiratory syndrome caused by COVID-19, between the first notified case (February 2020) until the 17th epidemiological week of 2021.

Epidemiologic study of Haemophilus influenzae causing invasive and non-invasive disease in Paraguay (1999-2017).

Introduction: Haemophilus influenzae is a cause of mild and severe invasive infections, especially among children under 5 years old. Serotype b (Hib) was very frequent before the introduction of the vaccine, which was introduced in Paraguay in 2004.

Methods: A total of 523 isolates of H.