Risk factors associated with taeniasis-cysticercosis in Lagamar, Minas Gerais State, Brazil
| Autor: | João Franquini Júnior, Cláudio de Oliveira Vieira, Luciane Giroto Micheletti, Aluízio Prata, Horácio Velloso Silveira Netto, João Henrique Castro, Arturo Santana Otaño, Mario León Silva-Vergara |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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Microbiology (medical)
Adult Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Swine Dogs Risk Factors Seizures Environmental health Epidemiology medicine Taeniasis Animals Humans Animal Husbandry Child business.industry Cysticercosis Infant Hygiene Middle Aged medicine.disease Infectious Diseases Relative risk Child Preschool Carrier State Housing Positive relationship Parasitology Female business Brazil |
| Zdroj: | Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical. 31(1) |
| ISSN: | 0037-8682 1992-1993 |
| Popis: | An epidemiological survey was carried out in 3,344 people of an urban town in Lagamar, Minas Gerais, Brazil - during 1992-1993, to evaluate the main risk factors related to taeniasis and cysticercosis. A total number of 875 (78.9%) houses were visited and 1080 (32.3%) subjects were clinically examined. Poor sanitary conditions were positively associated with former history of taeniasis or seizures in households (p < 0.05). It was remarkable the positive relationship between taeniasis and seizures when households were questioned and subjects were clinically evaluated (p < 0.05). The relative risk of seizures was 2.3 between households and 1.7 for individuals clinically examined respectively. The breeding of swine nearby and the chronic carriers of taeniasis are determinant factors in the maintenance of the epidemiological link between taeniasis and cysticercosis in endemic areas. |
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