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Environmental aspects related to tuberculosis and intestinal parasites in a low-income community of the Brazilian Amazon

Overview of attention for article published in Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo, August 2017
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Title
Environmental aspects related to tuberculosis and intestinal parasites in a low-income community of the Brazilian Amazon
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Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo, August 2017
DOI 10.1590/s1678-9946201759057
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Biatriz Araújo Cardoso, Fabio de Oliveira Fonseca, Antonio Henrique Almeida de Moraes, Ana Caroline Guedes Souza Martins, Nissa Vilhena da Silva Oliveira, Luana Nepomuceno Gondim Costa Lima, George Alberto da Silva Dias, Maria Helena Féres Saad

Abstract

We carried out a cross-sectional study from January to December 2015 on 1,425 inhabitants from a floating population in the Brazilian Amazon (Murinin district, Pará State) to describe the population-based prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) from 2011 to 2014, recent TB contacts (rCts) latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (LTBI) , the coverage of the local health network, socio-environmental factors, and frequency of intestinal parasitic infection (IPI). We found that the sanitary structure was inadequate, with latrines being shared with other rooms within the same accommodation; well water was the main source of water, and 48% of families had low incomes. The average rate of TB was 105/100, 000 inhabitants per year; one third of TB patients had been household contacts of infected individuals in the past, and 23% of rCts were LTBI. More than half (65%) of 44% of the stools examined (representing 76% of the housing) had IPIs; the highest prevalence was of fecal-oral transmitted protozoa (40%, Giardia intestinalis ), followed by soil-transmitted helminths (23%). TB transmission may be related to insufficient disease control of rCts, frequent relocation, and underreporting. Education, adopting hygienic habits, improving sanitation, provision of a treated water supply and efficient sewage system, further comprehensive epidemiological surveillance of those who enter and leave the community and resources for basic treatment of IPIs are crucial in combating the transmission of these neglected diseases.

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Unknown 130 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 19 15%
Student > Bachelor 17 13%
Researcher 10 8%
Other 9 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 7%
Other 20 15%
Unknown 46 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 26 20%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 3%
Engineering 3 2%
Other 22 17%
Unknown 54 42%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 May 2021.
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#15,173,117
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Outputs from Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo
#358
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#170,151
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Outputs of similar age from Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo
#4
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