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In this work, a Vector Autoregressive (VAR) model was developed to investigate the interrelationships between discarded and confirmed cases of dengue, chikungunya, and Zika in Brazil. We used data from the Brazilian National Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN) from 2010 to 2017. There were three peaks in the series of dengue notification in this period occurring in 2013, 2015 and in 2016. The series of reported cases of both Zika and chikungunya reached their peak in late 2015 and early 2016. The VAR model shows that the Zika series have a significant impact on the dengue series and vice versa, suggesting that several discarded and confirmed cases of dengue could actually have been cases of Zika. The model also suggests that the series of confirmed and discarded chikungunya cases are almost independent of the cases of Zika, however, affecting the series of dengue. In conclusion, co-circulation of arboviruses with similar symptoms could have lead to misdiagnosed diseases in the surveillance system. We argue that the routinely use of mathematical and statistical models in association with traditional symptom-surveillance could help to decrease such errors and to provide early indication of possible future outbreaks. These findings address the challenges regarding notification biases and shed new light on how to handle reported cases based only in clinical-epidemiological criteria when multiples arboviruses co-circulate in the same population.<\/jats:p>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Author summary<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) transmission is a growing health problem worldwide. The real epidemiological impact of the co-circulation of different arboviruses in the same urban spaces is a recent phenomenon and there are many issues to explore. One of them is the misclassification due to the scarce availability of confirmatory laboratory tests. This establishes a challenge to identify, distinguish and estimate the number of infections when different arboviruses co-circulate. We propose the use of multivariate time series analysis to understand how the weekly notification of suspected cases of dengue, chikungunya and Zika, in Brazil, affected each other. Our results suggest that the series of Zika significantly impact on the series of dengue and vice versa, indicating that several discarded and confirmed cases of dengue might actually have been Zika cases. The results also suggest that the series of confirmed cases of chikungunya are almost independent of those of dengue and Zika. Our findings shed light on yet hidden aspects on the co-circulation of these three viruses based on reported cases. We believe the present work provides a new perspective on the longitudinal analysis of arboviruses transmission and call attention to the challenge in dealing with biases in case notifications when multiple arboviruses circulate in the same urban environment.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1101\/708743","type":"posted-content","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,22]],"date-time":"2019-07-22T18:06:19Z","timestamp":1563818779000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Interdependence between confirmed and discarded cases of dengue, chikungunya and Zika viruses in Brazil: A multivariate time-series analysis"],"prefix":"10.64898","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7167-8754","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Juliane F","family":"Oliveira","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1594-2311","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Moreno S.","family":"Rodrigues","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Lacita M.","family":"Skalinski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Aline ES","family":"Santos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Larissa C.","family":"Costa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Luciana L.","family":"Cardim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Enny S.","family":"Paix\u00e3o","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Maria da Concei\u00e7\u00e3o N.","family":"Costa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Wanderson K.","family":"Oliveira","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Maur\u00edcio L.","family":"Barreto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Maria Gl\u00f3ria","family":"Teixeira","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Roberto F. 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