2014-02-132014-02-132011-01-24SILVA, Pablo Rodrigo de Andrade e. Doadores de sangue positivos em triagem sorológica para doença de Chagas no Acre: necessidade de adequação e orientação diagnóstica. 2011. 85 f. Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Belém, 2011. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia de Agentes Infecciosos e Parasitários.https://repositorio.ufpa.br/handle/2011/4767This study, which involved 77,893 blood donors who attended for the first time the Blood Center of Acre, from January 1997 to December 2008, aimed to: 1) to identify individuals with positive serology for Chagas disease, 2) characterize clinically, individuals with positive serology for Chagas' disease and 3) properly orient individuals serologically positive for therapy advocated. The sample consisted of 91.6% of male patients, with an average age around 47, all residents of the state of Acre. Serological screening was performed with the application of the ELISA positive results with 102 of these, 12 were included and subjected to confirmatory testing, of whom 11 had confirmed the positive result. According to the evaluation of complementary exams (ECG, echocardiography and endoscopy), a donor had installed the cardiac and the other an indeterminate form of the disease. You must provide the confirmatory test for Chagas disease in the routine of blood banks in order to ensure timely referral to a qualified medical assistance to that blood donor who became Chagas’ patients.porAcesso AbertoDoença de ChagasDoadores de sangueSoropositividadeBiogeografiaAcre - EstadoAmazônia brasileiraDissertaçãoCNPQ::CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::PARASITOLOGIACNPQ::CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::MICROBIOLOGIA::MICROBIOLOGIA MEDICA