Author | Gomes, Irênio | |
Author | Melo, Ailton | |
Author | Proietti, Fernando Augusto | |
Author | Carvalho, Otavio Augusto Moreno | |
Author | Loures, Luiz Antonio M | |
Author | Dazza, Marie Christine | |
Author | Said, Gerard | |
Author | Larouzé, Bernard | |
Author | Castro Filho, Bernardo Galvão | |
Access date | 2014-08-07T18:55:33Z | |
Available date | 2014-08-07T18:55:33Z | |
Document date | 1999 | |
Citation | GOMES, I. et al. Human T lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) infection in neurological patients in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, v. 165, n. 1, p. 84–89, 1999. | pt_BR |
ISSN | 0022-510X | |
URI | https://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/8152 | |
Language | eng | pt_BR |
Publisher | Elsevier | pt_BR |
Rights | open access | pt_BR |
Title | Human T lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) infection in neurological patients in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. | pt_BR |
Type | Article | pt_BR |
Abstract | HTLV-I infection represents a major health concern in endemic areas throughout the world, such as Salvador, the main city of Bahia State, with socio-demographic characteristics similar to sub-Saharan African cities, located in the Northeast of Brazil. In order to provide an estimate of the frequency distribution, and range of neurological manifestations potentially related to HTLV-I infection in this city, we conducted a cross-sectional clinical-epidemiological study to determine the prevalence of this infection in patients with neurological diseases. Patients exhibiting vascular diseases, tumoral diseases or trauma were excluded. Over a period of 16 months, we studied 322 consecutive patients with chronic neurological diseases, who attended the neurological clinics of two major hospitals in Salvador. Overall, the prevalence of HTLV-I infection among the patients was 20.9% (67/320). However, the prevalence among the 104 patients with chronic myelopathy was 50.0% (52/104). It was observed that the major prevalence of HTLV-I was between the ages of 40 and 60 years with a female predominance. Our data indicate that, in Salvador city, HTLV-I is associated with chronic myelopathies or myeloneuropathies, which seem to be the only neurological diseases associated with HTLV-I. | pt_BR |
Affilliation | Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisa Gonçalo Moniz. Laboratório Avançado de Saúde Pública. Salvador, BA, Brasil | pt_BR |
Affilliation | Universidade Federal da Bahia. Departamento de Neuro-Psiquiatria. Salvador, BA, Brasil | pt_BR |
Affilliation | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Departamento de Medicina Preventiva e Social. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil | pt_BR |
Affilliation | Fundação José Silveira. Laboratório de Líquor. Salvador, BA, Brasil | pt_BR |
Affilliation | Ministry of Health. National Program of STD/AIDS. Brasilia, DF, Brasil | pt_BR |
Affilliation | Institut de Medecine et d’Epidemiologie Tropicales. Faculté Xavier Bichat. Paris, France | pt_BR |
Affilliation | Hôpital du Kremlin-Bicêtre. Service de Neurologie. Kremlin Bicêtre, Paris, France | pt_BR |
Affilliation | Institut de Medecine et d’Epidemiologie Tropicales. Faculté Xavier Bichat. Paris, France | pt_BR |
Affilliation | Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisa Gonçalo Moniz. Laboratório Avançado de Saúde Pública. Salvador, BA, Brasil | pt_BR |
Subject | HTLV-I | pt_BR |
Subject | Neurological diseases | pt_BR |
Subject | TSP | pt_BR |
Subject | HAM | pt_BR |
Subject | Prevalence | pt_BR |
Subject | South America | pt_BR |
DeCS | Infecções por HTLV-I/epidemiologia | pt_BR |
DeCS | Doenças do Sistema Nervoso/epidemiologia | pt_BR |
DeCS | Adolescente | pt_BR |
DeCS | Adulto | pt_BR |
DeCS | Brasil/epidemiologia | pt_BR |
DeCS | Anticorpos Antibacterianos/análise | pt_BR |
DeCS | Estudos Transversais | pt_BR |
DeCS | Anticorpos Antideltaretrovirus/análise | pt_BR |
DeCS | Feminino | pt_BR |
DeCS | Anticorpos Anti-HIV/análise | pt_BR |
DeCS | Infecções por HTLV-I/líquido cefalorraquidiano | pt_BR |
DeCS | Infecções por HTLV-I/diagnóstico | pt_BR |
DeCS | Humanos | pt_BR |
DeCS | Masculino | pt_BR |
DeCS | Meia-Idade | pt_BR |
DeCS | Doenças do Sistema Nervoso/diagnóstico | pt_BR |
DeCS | Estudos Soroepidemiológicos | pt_BR |
DeCS | Treponema pallidum/imunologia | pt_BR |