Seroepidemiology and occupational and environmental variables for leptospirosis, brucellosis and toxoplasmosis in slaughterhouse workers in the Paraná State, Brazil

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo

Daniela Dib Gonçalves²  Paulo Sérgi Teles¹  Célia Rosimarie Dos Reis²  Fabiana Maria Ruiz Lopes²  Roberta Lemos Freire¹  Italmar Teodorico Navarro¹  Lucimara Aparecida Alves¹  Ernest Eckehardt Muller¹  Julio Cesar De Freitas¹ 

[1] ,Universidade Estadual de Londrina Department at Preventive Veterinarian MedicineParaná State ,Brazil

关键词: Leptospira spp.;    Brucella spp.;    Toxoplasma gondii;    Occupational diseases;    Slaughterhouse workers;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0036-46652006000300004

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Leptospirosis, brucellosis and toxoplasmosis are widely-distributed zoonosis, being the man an accidental participant of their epidemiological chains. The aim of this paper was to make a seroepidemiological report and identify occupational and environmental variables related to these illnesses in 150 workers in a slaughterhouse in the Northern region of Paraná. For the diagnosis of leptospirosis a microscopical seroagglutination test was applied; for brucellosis, the tamponated acidified antigen test and the 2-mercaptoetanol tests were used, and for toxoplasmosis the indirect immunofluorescence reaction test. For each employee an epidemiological survey was filled, which investigated occupational and environmental variables which could be associated with these infections. Positive results for leptospirosis were found in 4.00% of the samples, for brucellosis in 0.66% of samples and toxoplasmosis in 70.00%. From the three diseases researched, only the results for leptospirosis suggest occupational infection.

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