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Hepatitis B and C virus infection among Brazilian Amazon riparians
(2011-10) OLIVEIRA, Claudia Suellen Ferro de; SILVA, Adenielson Vilar e; SANTOS, Kemper Nunes dos; FECURY, Amanda Alves; ALMEIDA, Marcella Kelly Costa de; FERNANDES, Adriana Prado; COSTA, Carlos Araújo da; FREITAS, Andrei Silva; CORVELO, Tereza Cristina de Oliveira; MARTINS, Luisa Caricio
INTRODUCTION: Viral hepatitis is a major public health concern in Brazil. There are few past studies on this issue, especially among riparian communities. This study aims at determining the seroprevalence of viral hepatitis B and C in the riparian community of Pacuí Island, within the Cametá municipality of Pará State, Brazil. Moreover, this study aims to investigate the principal risk factors that this community is exposed to. METHODS: The current study has accessed blood samples from 181 volunteers who have answered an epidemiological questionnaire. Analyses on serological markers have been tested with commercial ELISA kits for detecting HBsAg, total anti-HBc, anti-HBs, and anti-HCV. Within seroreactive patients for HCV, RT-PCR and line probe assay have been performed to identify the viral genotype. RESULTS: In the serological marker analysis for hepatitis B, no reactivity for HBsAg, rate of 1.1% for total anti-HBc, and rate of 19.3% for anti-HBs have been observed. On hepatitis C, 8.8% seroprevalence has been found, in which 62.5% have gotten viral RNA. Among the risk factors studied, the following have been highlighted: non-use of condoms, sharing of cutting instruments, use of illicit drugs, and reports of family disease with HBV or HCV. CONCLUSIONS: The vaccination coverage against HBV is low, and the high prevalence of HCV within this community has been observed.
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Prevalência de enteroparasitoses e anemia e suas correlações com estado nutricional das crianças ribeirinhas do furo do Maracujá - Acará/PA
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2011) FERNANDES, Adriana Prado; MARTINS, Luisa Caricio; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1799493244439769
In recent decades there has been recognition that the actions of disease prevention and promoting healthy lifestyles promoted in the child a full growth and development. Since these actions are only viable means of population studies that the child is inserted. However, these benefits become unmanageable children who live in coastal communities, since these studies are extremely scarce. It is known that anemia and intestinal parasitic infections affect child nutritional status thus hindering the full development. The study include 80 children aged 1-10 years, and a 45 (56%) were female and 35 (44%) were male. We had a high prevalence of intestinal parasites found in all these children. The parasites found were E. histolytica/dispar (36.8%), G. lamblia (31.2%), A. lumbricoides (23.2%), T. trichiura (4.8%), hookworm (2.4%) and passing S. stercoralis (1.6%). There was also a high prevalence of anemia (77.5%), noting that children of 1-5 years of age were the hardest hit. The correlation of anemia and deficiency of serum iron was significant (p = 0.0001), since 91% of children were anemic and iron deficiency. The most surprising about this study was that 72.5% of children were well nourished before both intestinal parasites and anemia. We did not observe almost no studies relating to these variables in children riverside, but only by what we watch and shows the results obtained in a context marked by precarious living conditions.