Fig 1.
Geographical representation of the study area—Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.
Political Division. Territorial division by Federation Units. Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. Adapted from an open access shapefile available at <https://inde.gov.br/AreaDownload#>, access Jan 28 2022 and Metadata ID: 3bba887e-6cb1-4a7d-83bd-9906b832d81a.
Fig 2.
Classes of cover and land use (IBGE) and geoenvironmental domains (CPRM) to Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.
Classes of Cover and Land Use, adapted from an open access shapefile available at <https://inde.gov.br/AreaDownload#>, access Jan 28 2022, Metadata ID: 2c2589d2-e0c4-4900-9a62-870f2994b1fd; Geoenvironmental Domains, adapted from an open access shapefile available at <http://www.cprm.gov.br/publique/Gestao-Territorial/Geologia%2C-Meio-Ambiente-e-Saude/Projeto-Rio-de-Janeiro-3498.html>, access Jan 28 2022; and respective colours scales.
Table 1.
Expert panel weighted results for the ecological relationship between spotted fever rickettsiosis vectors and hosts in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.
Table 2.
Weights relating coverage classes of coverage and land use of Rio de Janeiro state with potential hosts.
Table 3.
Weights relating geoenvironmental domains in Rio de Janeiro state with potential vectors.
Fig 3.
Spotted fever rickettsiosis potential risk map to Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil due to ecological relationships between hosts and vectors.
Scenery 1 (BSF); Scenery 2 (BSF); Scenery 3 (BSF); Scenery 4 (SF); Scenery 5 (SF); Scenery Total Agglomerated; Three colours’ scale: blue colours—low potential risk; yellow colours—medium potential risk; red colours—high potential risk.
Fig 4.
Spotted fever rickettsiosis potential risk Map to Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.
Synthesis Sceneries A (BSF) and B (SF) Scenery A (BSF); Scenery B (SF); Three colours’ scale: blue colours—low potential risk; yellow colours—medium potential risk; red colours—high potential risk.
Table 4.
Weights according to the specificity of sceneries studied for the transmission of spotted fever rickettsiosis.
Fig 5.
Classification of Immediate Geographic Region (RGI) to Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil (IBGE).
Immediate Geographic Region, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil and respective colours’ scale. Adapted from an open access shapefile available at <https://inde.gov.br/AreaDownload#>, access Jan 28 2022 and Metadata ID: 515e67ee-ba6a-417b-bf53-511e5825d7cd.
Fig 6.
Relation between geoenvironmental domain and potential risk or protective factor for spotted fever rickettsiosis, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.
BSF Rickettsiosis—Brazilian Spotted Fever (Scenery A), SF Rickettsiosis—Spotted Fever (Scenery B) with their respective colour scales (LPRF—Low Potential Risk Factor, LPF—Low Protective Factor, HPRF—High Potential Risk Factor and HPF—High Protective Factor).
Fig 7.
Spotted fever occurrences, hospitalizations and deaths between 2007 and 2016 in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.
Occurrences Cases; Hospitalizations; Deaths and respective Three-colour scale: blue colours—low; yellow colours—medium; red colours—high.