Systemic impact of the post-Coronavirus disease syndrome in Brazil: Impacto sistêmico da síndrome da doença pós-Coronavírus no Brasil

Background: Symptom persistence following severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection has been recognized as the post-coronavirus disease (post-COVID-19) syndrome. We aimed to assess the long-term sequelae of COVID-19 in a local Brazilian population, and to identify risk factors for the onset and severity of this syndrome.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in a tertiary-care hospital. Participants who had recovered from COVID-19 underwent a clinical evaluation and completed a questionnaire on post-COVID-19 symptoms that they had experienced.Results: In a sample of 141 patients, the most prominent post-COVID-19 symptoms were associated with the cardiovascular, respiratory, and neurological systems. Participants aged over 40 years had a significantly higher mean number of symptoms than those aged 40 years or younger (14.6 vs. 11.1). Patients with more severe disease in the acute phase, had significantly more symptoms than those with mild or moderate disease. Most post-COVID-19 symptoms were associated with diabetes mellitus (21.8) and renal failure (21.8), but without a significant difference in the number of associated symptoms according to the presence of preexisting comorbidities.Conclusions: Post-COVID-19 syndrome was more common and comprised more symptoms in participants aged over 40 years and in participants with severe disease during the acute phase. Future studies should assess the duration of post-COVID-19 syndrome symptoms and evaluate the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on post-COVID-19 syndrome

ATLANTIC EPIPHYTES: a data set of vascular and non-vascular epiphyte plants and lichens from the Atlantic Forest

Epiphytes are hyper-diverse and one of the frequently undervalued life forms in plant surveys and biodiversity inventories. Epiphytes of the Atlantic Forest, one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world, have high endemism and radiated recently in the Pliocene. We aimed to (1) compile an extensive Atlantic Forest data set on vascular, non-vascular plants (including hemiepiphytes), and lichen epiphyte species occurrence and abundance; (2) describe the epiphyte distribution in the Atlantic Forest, in order to indicate future sampling efforts. Our work presents the first epiphyte data set with information on abundance and occurrence of epiphyte phorophyte species. All data compiled here come from three main sources provided by the authors: published sources (comprising peer-reviewed articles, books, and theses), unpublished data, and herbarium data. We compiled a data set composed of 2,095 species, from 89,270 holo/hemiepiphyte records, in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, recorded from 1824 to early 2018. Most of the records were from qualitative data (occurrence only, 88%), well distributed throughout the Atlantic Forest. For quantitative records, the most common sampling method was individual trees (71%), followed by plot sampling (19%), and transect sampling (10%). Angiosperms (81%) were the most frequently registered group, and Bromeliaceae and Orchidaceae were the families with the greatest number of records (27,272 and 21,945, respectively). Ferns and Lycophytes presented fewer records than Angiosperms, and Polypodiaceae were the most recorded family, and more concentrated in the Southern and Southeastern regions. Data on non-vascular plants and lichens were scarce, with a few disjunct records concentrated in the Northeastern region of the Atlantic Forest. For all non-vascular plant records, Lejeuneaceae, a family of liverworts, was the most recorded family. We hope that our effort to organize scattered epiphyte data help advance the knowledge of epiphyte ecology, as well as our understanding of macroecological and biogeographical patterns in the Atlantic Forest. No copyright restrictions are associated with the data set. Please cite this Ecology Data Paper if the data are used in publication and teaching events. © 2019 The Authors. Ecology © 2019 The Ecological Society of Americ