Morbidade da doença de Chagas em áreas do Sertäo da Paraíba e da Caatinga do Piauí / Chaga's disease morbidity in Sertäo of Paraíba and Caatinga of Piauí
Coura, José Rodrigues; Pereira, José Borges; Alves Filho, Francisco Itamar; Castro, José Adail Fonseca de; Cunha, Rivaldo Venâncio da; Costa, Walfredo; Junqueira, Angela Cristina Veríssimo.
Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop
; 29(2): 197-205, Mar.-Apr. 1996. tab, mapas
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em Português
| LILACS | ID: lil-187146
A clinical and electrocardiographic case control study was carried out with 186 pairs of persons with positive and negative serology for T. cruzi infection from the Sertäo Paraíba and in 200 seropositive cases from the region of Caatinga in the State of Piauí, North-eastern Brazil. The predominant clinical manifestations in seropositive cases in both areas were palpitations, dyspnea on effort, precordial pain, dysphagia, odynophagia, pyrosis and intestinal constipation. The EKG abnormalities rates suggestive of chronic chagasic cardiopathy were respectively in Paraíba and Piauí AV block 3.8 per cent and 2 per cent, RBBB III 6.4 per cent and 7 per cent, RBBB III+ LAB 10.7 per cent and 10.5 per cent, and multifocal extrasystoles 2.7 per cent and 3 per cent. Xenodiagnosis in a sample of 54 seropositive individuals in the Sert-ao of Para-iba and in 120 in the Caatinga of Piauí was revealed 13 per cent and 34 per cent positive; PCR tests in a sample of 47 seropositives in Paraíba and 101 in Piauí revealed positives in 44.6 per cent and 59.5 per cent respectively. Blood culture in LIT media of 101 seropositive cases from the Caatinga of Piauí was positive for T. cruzi in 25.7 per cent. A triatomine survey carried out in a sample of 132 domiciles and peridomiciles in the Sertäo of Paraíba and in a sample of 159 in the Caatinga of Piauí showed the following
results:
In Paraíba, 16 specimens of T. brasiliensis, not infected with T. cruzi, were captured. In Piauí, 750 triatomines were captured, of these 625 were examined 49 were T. pseudomaculata, not infected with T. cruzi (19 in peridomiciles and 30 in the domiciles), and 576 were T. brasiliensis (371 in the domiciles and 205 in the peridomiciles) and of this latter specie 32 (5.5 per cent) were infected with T. cruzi (31 in the domiciles and one in the peridomicile) per cent.
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