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Seroprevalence of Rapid Tests in Leprosy Cases and Household Contacts in Endemic Municipalities of Pará State 1 Soroprevalência De Testes Rápidos Em Casos De Hanseníase E Contatos Intradomiciliares Em Municípios Endêmicos Do Estado Do Pará
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Almeida, Marcos Fabiano De Gonçalves, Milene Carvalho Martins, Luísa C. Nogueira, Jackson Regina, Francisca Carneiro, Oliveira |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | SUMMARY Objective: this is a transversal study of series of cases in endemic areas for leprosy in the Sate of Para, estimating the seroprevalence of antiPGL-1, through ML-Flow rapid test in leprosy cases and their household contacts. Method: from april 2011 to october 2012, 73 new leprosy cases and 165 household contacts were recruited in the reference units for treatment of leprosy in the municipalities of Marituba, Belem, Igarape-Acu and Santarem. Results: seropositivity was observed in 53.42% of index cases; of them were MB cases and among 12.1% household contacts. Conclusions: the results indicate that the introduction of the rapid test, as auxiliary instrument, serves for classification of index cases and household contacts of cases involved in this study, allowing to conclude that leprosy cases and their contacts are important elements in the epidemiology of the disease. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://files.bvs.br/upload/S/0101-5907/2014/v28n1/a4157.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
