Índice de positividade da reação imunoenzimática (ELISA) para cisticercose no líquido cefalorraquidiano (LCR) e no soro de pacientes com epilepsia Positivity enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) rates for cysticercosis in the cerebro-spinal fluid (CSF) and in the patients serum with epilepsy

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Ana Maria Bonametti, Maria Aparecida Basile, Adelaide José Vaz, José Luís da Silveira Baldy, Clóvis Kiomitsu Takiguti
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1992
• Subjects: Neurocisticercose; Epilepsia; Imunodiagnóstico; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651992000500013; https://doaj.org/article/fca09a9af465484399a7767590af2c09

Foram estudados 50 pacientes com epilepsia em três Serviços de Neurologia do Município de Londrina, Paraná. A prevalência da positividade da reação imunoenzimática (ELISA) para cisticercose no líquido cefalorraquidiano (LCR) e no soro desses pacientes foi de 34,0% e 20,0%, respectivamente. Houve diferença estatisticamente significativa quando essas duas taxas foram comparadas com a positividade da reação, no LCR e no soro, no grupo controle, constituído por pessoas que não apresentavam doença neurológica. Não houve associação entre o tipo de convulsão (generalizada ou parcial) e o índice de positividade da reação imunoenzimática (ELISA) para cisticercose no LCR. Encontrou-se número maior de pacientes com ELISA reagente para cisticercose em moradores da zona rural em relação aos moradores da zona urbana do município. Fifty patients with epilepsy seen in three Londrina Neurological Services, in Paraná, were studied. The positivity prevalence of the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for cysticercosis in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and in the serum of these patients was 34.0% and 20.0%, respectively. There was statisticaly significant difference when these two rates were compared with the reaction positivity in the CSF and the serum in the control group, formed by individuals without neurological diseases. There was no association between the type of seisure (generalized or partial) and the positivity index of ELISA for cysticercosis in the CSF. A greater number of patients with positive ELISA for cysticercosis in the rural area dwellers was found, in relation with the urban area dwellers. From the obtained results in our study we came to the following conclusions: 1. The high positivity ELISA rates for cysticercosis in the CSF and in the patients serum with epilepsy indicate that neurocysticercosis is an important seisure cause in Londrina, PR. 2. The positivity prevalence of ELISA for cysticercosis in CSF was greater in epileptic patients from the rural area than the ones from the urban area. 3. There ...