Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo | |
Seroprevalence of selected viral, bacterial and parasitic infections among inpatients of a public psychiatric hospital of Mexico | |
Cosme Alvarado-esquivel2  Miguel Ángel Arreola-valenzuela1  Alfredo Rodríguez-briones1  Olga Patricia Alanís-quiñones1  Sergio Estrada-martínez1  Carlos Luevanos-becerra1  Luis Felipe Martínez-saenz1  Sergio Arturo Martínez-garcía2  Eda Guadalupe Ramírez-valles1  Isaac Ibarra-torres1  Cesar Arnulfo González-verdín1  | |
[1] ,Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango Facultad de Medicina Durango,México | |
关键词: Psychiatric patients; Infections; Prevalence; Virus; Parasite; Bacteria; | |
DOI : 10.1590/S0036-46652008005000001 | |
来源: SciELO | |
【 摘 要 】
We sought to determine the frequency of serological markers of selected infections in a population of psychiatric patients in Durango City, Mexico, and to determine whether there are any epidemiological characteristics of the subjects associated with the infections. One hundred and five inpatients of a public psychiatric hospital of Durango were examined for HBsAg, anti-HCV antibodies, anti-HIV antibodies, anti-Brucella antibodies, rapid plasma reagin and anti-Cysticercus antibodies by commercially available assays. Anti-Cysticercus antibodies were confirmed by Western blot and HBsAg by neutralization assay. Epidemiological data from each participant were also obtained. Seroprevalences of HBsAg, anti-HCV, anti-HIV, anti-Brucella, rapid plasma reagin and anti-Cysticercus antibodies found were 0.0%, 4.8%, 0.9%, 0.0%, 1.9%, and 0.9%, respectively. Overall, 9 (8.6%) inpatients showed seropositivity to any infection marker. We concluded that our psychiatric inpatients have serological evidence of a number of infections. HCV is an important pathogen among our psychiatric inpatients. Health care strategies for prevention and control of infections in Mexican psychiatric patients should be considered.
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