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Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Helicobacter pylori em crianças e associação de cepas CagA na transmissão mãe-filho na Amazônia brasileira(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2009-06) D’ANNIBALE, Vivian Lúcia Aslan; MARTINS, Luisa Caricio; CARNEIRO, Lígia Maia; BARILE, Katarine Antonia dos Santos; CORVELO, Tereza Cristina de OliveiraThe prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection was investigated in blood samples from 100 children aged 1 to 12 years and from their mothers, by means of the indirect hemagglutination and anti-CagA methods, using ELISA assays. From these 100 children, 79 stool samples were obtained and bacterial antigens in the stools were investigated using capture ELISA. The antigens were detected in 54.4% (43/79) of the children, and serum antibodies in 43% (34/79). These methods presented similar performance, with greatest disagreement among the children aged 1 to 4 years. The seroprevalence was 50% (50/100) among the children and 86% (86/100) among the mothers. Infected mothers represented a risk factor that was 19 times greater than that of seronegative mothers, with regard to infecting their children (p < 0.05), especially the mothers with CagA+ strains (p < 0.05). Direct person-to-person contact may be a transmission method for this infection.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Soroprevalência da infecção por Helicobacter pylori em crianças de diferentes níveis sócio-econômicos em Porto Velho, Estado de Rondônia(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2007-10) RODRIGUES, Rosely Valéria; CORVELO, Tereza Cristina de Oliveira; FERRER, Mabel TorresThis study investigated the seroprevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection in 200 children in the city of Porto Velho, State of Rondônia, divided in two groups of 100 children. The prevalence of seropositivity varied considerably according to socioeconomic level, such that 51% of the lower-level children and 24% of the middle-class children were positive. The characteristics of the child population relating to sex, ethnicity and diet did not represent risk factors for acquiring the infection. However, most of the infected children were in the age group of five years or older, independent of socioeconomic level. The phenotypic distribution of ABO blood groups among the infected and uninfected individuals showed that the seroreactivity to Helicobacter pylori was greater among the children with the O blood type, thus suggesting that these children have greater genetic susceptibility to infection by Helicobacter pylori.