Leishmaniasis urbanization and low diagnosis capacity in the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Cabral, Ana Lúcia Lobo Vianna¹  Pimenta, Denise Nacif¹  Rabello, Ana¹  Fiúza, Vanessa Oliveira Pires¹  Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais¹  Secretaria Estadual de Saúde de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte¹  Fundação Oswaldo Cruz¹  Luz, Zélia Maria Profeta da¹ 

关键词: Leishmaniasis;    Diagnosis;    Municipalities;    Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte;    Health care;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0037-86822001000300004

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

来源: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

【 摘 要 】

During the period from 1994 to 1999 cutaneous leishmaniasis was reported in 32 (89%) out of 36 municipalities in the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, of which one (2,8%) municipality was classified as a very high risk area, 16 (44,5%) as high risk, seven (19,4%) as moderate risk areas and 12 (33,3%) as low risk. From 1994 to 1995, visceral leishmaniasis was reported in six (16%) municipalities whereas in 1998 ¾1999 this number increased to 15 (42%). Annual numbers of cases during 1994 to 1999 were 30, 53, 64, 53 and 84, respectively. In 19 (61.3%) municipalities no reference center for the diagnosis of the infection was available, so that most of the patients (80%) were referred to Belo Horizonte. Twelve (39%) municipalities have a center for leishmaniasis evaluation, however in only eight (67%) of these basic specific diagnostic tests were available. Rapid and extensive increase of leishmaniasis associated with low diagnosis capacity has been observed in the metropolitan area of Belo Horizonte.

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