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Monitorização da infecção pelo T. cruzi através do rastreamento sorológico em b...
Zicker, Fabio; Martelli, Celina Maria Turchi; Andrade, Ana Lucia Sampaio Sgambatti de; Silva, Simonne Almeida eBetween October 1988 and April 1989 a cross-sectional survey was carried out in six out of eight blood banks of Goiânia, Central Brazil. Subjects attending for first-time blood donation in the mornings of the study period (n = 1358) were interviewed and screened for T. cruzi infection as a part of a major study among blood donors. Tests to anti-T. cruzi antibodies were performed, simultaneously, by indirect hem...
Seroprevalence and risk factors for syphilis in prisoners in Goiás, Brazil
Andrade, Ana Lúcia Sampaio Sgambatti de; Martelli, Celina Maria Turchi; Sousa, Luiz Carlos Silva; Sousa, Marta Antunes de; Zicker, FabioA cross-sectional survey was carried-out among 299 prisoners in the Penitentiary Center of Industrial Activity of Goiás (CEPAIGO), to determine the seroprevalence to T. pallidum and to identify risk factors associated to seropositivity. The seropositivity criterion was a positive VDRL test at any titer. A questionnaire was applied to evaluate the following'risk factors: time of imprisonment, clinical evidence o...