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dc.contributor.authorJervis, Oswaldoes_ES
dc.date.accessioned2015
dc.date.available2015
dc.date.issueds.d.es_ES
dc.date.issued1967es_ES
dc.identifier.urihttps://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/15281
dc.description.abstractThe evolution of plague in Ecuador may be divided into the following three periods: the first, dating from 1908 to 1939, represents the time when the largest epidemic outbreaks occurred and both morbidity and mortality were high (11,898 cases and 5,135 deaths, or a mortality rate of 43.15 per cent). The disease was first predominant in the coastal villages and ports, beginning with Guayaquil, and then advanced to the north through the villages along the railroad through several Andean provinces; to the south only certain border localities of the Province of Loja were infected. It became endemic in the scattered rural settlements of the Sierra region beginning in 1932en_US
dc.description.abstractThe second period, from 1940 to 1959, saw a considerable decrease in the incidence of plague and its consequences as the result of prophylaxis and treatment with effective new drugs (chemotherapy and antibiotics), and the intensive use of new insecticides and raticides (DDT, 1080, and cyanogas), which reduced mortality to 23.03 per cent. Nevertheless, the disease continued to be endemic in the Sierra region because resistance to chlorinated insecticides had developed in Loja Province in 1952, and that did away with any hope of achieving eradicationen_US
dc.description.abstractThe third period, dating from 1960 to 1965, showed that while mortality had decreased extraordinarily, there was a surprising increase in morbidity, as well as in the number of ...(AU)en_US
dc.format.extentiluses_ES
dc.relation.ispartofseriesBoletín de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana (OSP);62(5),mayo 1967es_ES
dc.subjectPestees_ES
dc.subjectPestees_ES
dc.subjectSurtos de Doençaspt_BR
dc.subjectMortalidadees_ES
dc.subjectIndicadores Básicos de Saúdept_BR
dc.subjectAmérica Latinaes_ES
dc.subjectEcuadores_ES
dc.titleLa peste en Ecuador de 1908 a 1965es_ES
dc.title.alternativePlague from 1908 to 1965, Ecuadores_ES
dc.typeJournal articlesen_US
dc.rights.holderPan American Health Organizationen_US


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