Hepatitis E virus infection among rural Afro-descendant communities from the eastern Brazilian Amazon
Abstract INTRODUCTION The prevalence, public health impact, and epidemiological characteristics of hepatitis E virus (HEV) are poorly understood in Brazil. METHODS Serum samples from 535 individuals from three rural Afro-descendant communities located in eastern Brazilian Amazon were collected in Oc...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:7ae423f0dfd244a699f642dfc386b634 2023-05-15T15:01:21+02:00 Hepatitis E virus infection among rural Afro-descendant communities from the eastern Brazilian Amazon Alex Junior Souza de Souza Candida Maria Abrahão de Oliveira Vânia Pinto Sarmento André Antonio Corrêa das Chagas Nayara Silva Nonato Dickson Ciro Nascimento de Brito Kemere Marques Vieira Barbosa Manoel do Carmo Pereira Soares Heloisa Marceliano Nunes https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0394-2017 https://doaj.org/article/7ae423f0dfd244a699f642dfc386b634 EN eng Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822018000600803&lng=en&tlng=en https://doaj.org/toc/1678-9849 1678-9849 doi:10.1590/0037-8682-0394-2017 https://doaj.org/article/7ae423f0dfd244a699f642dfc386b634 Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, Vol 51, Iss 6, Pp 803-807 Hepatitis E Quilombola Zoonosis Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 article ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0394-2017 2022-12-31T03:06:27Z Abstract INTRODUCTION The prevalence, public health impact, and epidemiological characteristics of hepatitis E virus (HEV) are poorly understood in Brazil. METHODS Serum samples from 535 individuals from three rural Afro-descendant communities located in eastern Brazilian Amazon were collected in October 2015 and tested for presence of anti-HEV IgM and IgG antibodies. Serologically positive samples were also tested for HEV-RNA. RESULTS Two cases were confirmed for anti-HEV IgM (0.3 %) and two cases for anti-HEV IgG (0.3 %). No sample was positive for HEV-RNA. CONCLUSIONS Results indicated low prevalence of HEV infection in Afro-descendant rural communities from the eastern Brazilian Amazon. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical 51 6 803 807 |
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Abstract INTRODUCTION The prevalence, public health impact, and epidemiological characteristics of hepatitis E virus (HEV) are poorly understood in Brazil. METHODS Serum samples from 535 individuals from three rural Afro-descendant communities located in eastern Brazilian Amazon were collected in October 2015 and tested for presence of anti-HEV IgM and IgG antibodies. Serologically positive samples were also tested for HEV-RNA. RESULTS Two cases were confirmed for anti-HEV IgM (0.3 %) and two cases for anti-HEV IgG (0.3 %). No sample was positive for HEV-RNA. CONCLUSIONS Results indicated low prevalence of HEV infection in Afro-descendant rural communities from the eastern Brazilian Amazon. |
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Alex Junior Souza de Souza Candida Maria Abrahão de Oliveira Vânia Pinto Sarmento André Antonio Corrêa das Chagas Nayara Silva Nonato Dickson Ciro Nascimento de Brito Kemere Marques Vieira Barbosa Manoel do Carmo Pereira Soares Heloisa Marceliano Nunes |
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Alex Junior Souza de Souza Candida Maria Abrahão de Oliveira Vânia Pinto Sarmento André Antonio Corrêa das Chagas Nayara Silva Nonato Dickson Ciro Nascimento de Brito Kemere Marques Vieira Barbosa Manoel do Carmo Pereira Soares Heloisa Marceliano Nunes |
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Hepatitis E virus infection among rural Afro-descendant communities from the eastern Brazilian Amazon |
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Hepatitis E virus infection among rural Afro-descendant communities from the eastern Brazilian Amazon |
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