FIGURE 1: Number of publications in databases by country, and confirmed diagnoses in infections by arboviruses from 2000 to 2019, retrieved using the keywords “dengue”, “Zika”, “chikungunya”, and/or “CSF”. (A) The proportion of publications using CSF for the diagnostic evaluation of the total number over these 19 years filtered using the isolated words “dengue”, “Zika”, “chikungunya” in combination with “CSF” to the total number of publications using the arbovirus terms only. (B) Number of publications in the period in the LILACS, Pubmed, Scopus, and Embase databases. (C) Total number of publications by country retrieved from the databases. Descending order of the countries with the highest scientific production according to the body of authors and collaborators. (D) Number of confirmed diagnoses involving infections by DENV, ZIKV, and CHIKV that used the cerebrospinal fluid as a screening sample, originated from the publications filtered in the databases. GBS: Guillain-Barré Syndrome; ADEM: Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis. SIADH: Syndrome of Inappropriate Antidiuretic Hormone. *Only arbovirus = isolated “dengue”, “Zika” “chikungunya”.