COVID-19 outbreaks among isolated Amazonian indigenous people, Ecuador

doi:10.2471/BLT.20.283028

Editorial

. 2021 Jul 1;99(7):478-478A.

doi: 10.2471/BLT.20.283028.

COVID-19 outbreaks among isolated Amazonian indigenous people, Ecuador

Aquiles R Henriquez-Trujillo¹, Esteban Ortiz-Prado¹, Ismar A Rivera-Olivero¹, Nemonte Nenquimo², Andrés Tapia³, Mitchell Anderson⁴, Tannya Lozada¹, Miguel Angel Garcia-Bereguiain¹

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¹ One Health Research Group, Universidad de Las Américas, Via a Nayón S/N.170125, Quito, Ecuador.
² Organización Waorani de Pastaza, Shell, Ecuador.
³ Nacionalidad Kichwa de Pastaza and Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon, Puyo, Ecuador.
⁴ Amazon Frontlines, San Francisco, United States of America.

PMID: 34248216
PMCID: PMC8243033
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.20.283028

Editorial

COVID-19 outbreaks among isolated Amazonian indigenous people, Ecuador

Aquiles R Henriquez-Trujillo et al. Bull World Health Organ. 2021.

. 2021 Jul 1;99(7):478-478A.

doi: 10.2471/BLT.20.283028.

Authors

Aquiles R Henriquez-Trujillo¹, Esteban Ortiz-Prado¹, Ismar A Rivera-Olivero¹, Nemonte Nenquimo², Andrés Tapia³, Mitchell Anderson⁴, Tannya Lozada¹, Miguel Angel Garcia-Bereguiain¹

Affiliations

¹ One Health Research Group, Universidad de Las Américas, Via a Nayón S/N.170125, Quito, Ecuador.
² Organización Waorani de Pastaza, Shell, Ecuador.
³ Nacionalidad Kichwa de Pastaza and Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon, Puyo, Ecuador.
⁴ Amazon Frontlines, San Francisco, United States of America.

PMID: 34248216
PMCID: PMC8243033
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.20.283028

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[1] Zhou P, Yang XL, Wang XG, Hu B, Zhang L, Zhang W, et al. A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin. Nature. 2020. March;579(7798):270–3. 10.1038/s41586-020-2012-7 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[2] Zhou P, Yang XL, Wang XG, Hu B, Zhang L, Zhang W, et al. A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin. Nature. 2020. March;579(7798):270–3. 10.1038/s41586-020-2012-7 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[3] Gorbalenya AE, Baker SC, Baric RS, de Groot RJ, Drosten C, Gulyaeva AA, et al.Coronaviridae Study Group of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. The species Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus: classifying 2019-nCoV and naming it SARS-CoV-2. Nat Microbiol. 2020. April;5(4):536–44. 10.1038/s41564-020-0695-z - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[4] Gorbalenya AE, Baker SC, Baric RS, de Groot RJ, Drosten C, Gulyaeva AA, et al.Coronaviridae Study Group of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. The species Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus: classifying 2019-nCoV and naming it SARS-CoV-2. Nat Microbiol. 2020. April;5(4):536–44. 10.1038/s41564-020-0695-z - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[5] Cuéllar L, Torres I, Romero-Severson E, Mahesh R, Ortega N, Pungitore S, et al. Excess deaths reveal the true spatial, temporal, and demographic impact of COVID-19 on mortality in Ecuador [preprint]. medRxiv. 2021. January 1;2021.02.25.21252481. - PMC - PubMed

[6] Cuéllar L, Torres I, Romero-Severson E, Mahesh R, Ortega N, Pungitore S, et al. Excess deaths reveal the true spatial, temporal, and demographic impact of COVID-19 on mortality in Ecuador [preprint]. medRxiv. 2021. January 1;2021.02.25.21252481. - PMC - PubMed

[7] Bruno A, de Mora D, Freire-Paspuel B, Orlando A, Garcia Bereguiain MA. Analytical and clinical evaluation of a heat shock SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis method without RNA extraction for N and E genes RT-qPCR. Int J Infect Dis. 2021; (Forthcoming). - PMC - PubMed

[8] Bruno A, de Mora D, Freire-Paspuel B, Orlando A, Garcia Bereguiain MA. Analytical and clinical evaluation of a heat shock SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis method without RNA extraction for N and E genes RT-qPCR. Int J Infect Dis. 2021; (Forthcoming). - PMC - PubMed

[9] Torres I, Sacoto F. Localising an asset-based COVID-19 response in Ecuador. Lancet. 2020. April 25;395(10233):1339. 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30851-5 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[10] Torres I, Sacoto F. Localising an asset-based COVID-19 response in Ecuador. Lancet. 2020. April 25;395(10233):1339. 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30851-5 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

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