Seroprevalence of selected viral, bacterial and parasitic infections among inpatients of a public psychiatric hospital of Mexico

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo

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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