Seroprevalence of certain bacterial and viral infections among the Irula tribal population of Marakkanam, Tamil Nadu state, India
| Autor: | Umamaheshwari Perumal Kannabiran, Rajendran Melani, Meenakshisundaram Chockalingam, Kannan Mohan, Rajendran Paramasivam, Rajendran Nivedha, Karthikeyan Murugasan, Sivashankar Moorthy, Ashok Gnanasekaran, Sivasankari Selvaraj, Joseph C. Daniel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Male Veterinary medicine Adolescent Hantavirus Infections Population India HIV Infections Antibodies Viral Sampling Studies Typhoid fever Young Adult Sex Factors Seroepidemiologic Studies Humans Medicine Seroprevalence Leptospirosis Syphilis Typhoid Fever education Care Planning Aged Hantavirus education.field_of_study business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Middle Aged Hepatitis B medicine.disease Antibodies Bacterial Virology language.human_language Virus Diseases Tamil language Female Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections business |
| Zdroj: | Primary Health Care Research & Development. 14:185-191 |
| ISSN: | 1477-1128 1463-4236 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s1463423612000175 |
| Popis: | Assistant Professor, Department of Endodontics, Sri Venkateswara Dental College, Thalambur, Chennai,Tamil Nadu State, IndiaAim: Seroprevalence study in Irula tribe of Marakkanam, Tamil Nadu State wascarried out for certain bacterial (typhoid, syphilis and leptospirosis) and viral infection(hanta,hepatitis B and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)). Result: Highestseroprevalence was observed for leptospirosis (61.1%) followed by, hepatitis B virussurface antigen (11.11%), syphilis (9.72%), typhoid (8.33%), hantavirus (6.9%) and HIV(2.77%). Observation: The seroprevalence of leptospirosis and hantavirus may beattributed to their professional exposure to rodent that they catch in the open field andthe syphilis, hepatitis B and HIV prevalence may be related to their sexual behaviorand social customs.Keywords: bacterial infections; Irula tribal; seroprevalence; viral infections |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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