Assessment of crab fishermen's exposure to rabies virus in a typical Amazonian community
| Autor: | Diego de Arruda Xavier, Mateus Borges Silva, Isis Abel, Denis Cardoso, Nailde de Paula Silva, Elane A. Andrade, Kelly Karoline Gomes do Nascimento, Ruth Cavalcante Silva Guimarães |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Epidemiology Brachyura Rabies Population Occupational safety and health Young Adult Chiroptera medicine Animals Humans Bites and Stings education education.field_of_study General Veterinary General Immunology and Microbiology biology Amazon rainforest Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Outbreak Middle Aged biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Infectious Diseases Geography Snowball sampling Vampire bat Rabies virus Female Brazil Demography |
| Zdroj: | Zoonoses and public healthREFERENCES. 68(8) |
| ISSN: | 1863-2378 |
| Popis: | Outbreaks of human rabies transmitted by hematophagous bats occurred in 2018 in Para state, Brazil, eastern Amazon, after 12 years of no record of the disease. Thus, it is necessary to understand the epidemiological characteristics of these attacks to protect the local population. This study aimed to characterize the bat bite populations in the municipality of Sao Joao da Ponta, Para State, Brazil, in 2013-2015. The Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN) database was used to identify the five individuals who sought medical care during the study period (seeds). Other individuals who were attacked during the same period but did not seek medical care (n = 61) were reached by snowball sampling, and a descriptive analysis was performed based on information obtained from questionnaires. Majority of the interviewees were men (92.4%; 61/66) and adults aged 20-50 years (69.9%; 46/66) and had |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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