التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Prevalence of antibodies against hepatitis A virus among the Kuikuro and Kaiabi Indians of Xingu National Park, Brazil |
| المؤلفون: |
Lafer,Manuel Mindlin, Moraes-Pinto,Maria Isabel de, Weckx,Lily Yin |
| المصدر: |
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo v.49 n.3 2007 |
| بيانات النشر: |
Instituto de Medicina Tropical |
| سنة النشر: |
2007 |
| المجموعة: |
SciELO Brazil (Scientific Electronic Library Online) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
Hepatitis A, Antibodies, South American Indians, Serology |
| الوصف: |
A seroprevalence study to detect total antibodies against Hepatitis A Virus was done with 220 samples from 589 Native Indians from Xingu National Park, Brazil, in five Kaiabi and Kuikuro villages, the most populous ethnic groups. Using a commercial immunoassay kit we detected 97.7% positive samples (95% Confidence Interval: 95%-99%). We noticed a precocious seroconversion, before the age of six years, when the disease is usually asymptomatic. These results are similar to those found in the literature in non-Indian population studies of the Northern, Northeastern and West Central regions of Brazil. They suggest that it is not necessary to introduce vaccination against Hepatitis A in these highly endemic populations. |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: |
text/html |
| اللغة: |
English |
| الإتاحة: |
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46652007000300004Test |
| رقم الانضمام: |
edsbas.89B2BA07 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
BASE |
