ABSTRACT
De junho a dezembro de 1999, foram coletadas 785 amostras de soro de pacientes com suspeita clínica de dengue e/ou febre amarela. Os pacientes foram atendidos nas unidades de saúde distribuídas pelas seis mesorregiöes do Estado do Pará, Brasil. As amostras de soro foram testadas pelo método de inibiçäo da hemaglutinaçäo para detecçäo de anticorpos para Flavivirus e pelo ensaio imunoenzimático para detecçäo de imunoglobulina M para dengue e febre amarela. Das amostras coletadas, 563 (71,7 por cento) foram positivas pelo IH, e dentre estas 150 (26,6 por cento) foram positivas pelo ELISA-IgM. O vírus dengue foi responsável pela maioria das infecçöes recentes em todas as mesorregiöes e os casos de febre amarela detectados neste estudo foram restritos às mesorregiöes Marajó e Sudeste
Subject(s)
Adolescent , Female , Humans , Male , Antibodies, Viral/blood , Dengue/diagnosis , Flavivirus/immunology , Immunoglobulin M/blood , Yellow Fever/diagnosis , Age Distribution , Brazil , Chi-Square Distribution , Dengue/blood , Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay , Hemagglutination Inhibition Tests , Sex Distribution , Yellow Fever/bloodABSTRACT
From June to December 1999, 785 serum samples were obtained from patients clinically suspected of having dengue or yellow fever. The patients were referred by public health centers distributed within the six mesoregions of Par State, Brazil. Serum samples were tested for Flavivirus antibodies by hemagglutination inhibition test and for dengue and yellow fever viruses by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for IgM detection. Of the sera collected, 563 (71.7%) were positive by HI test and out of these 150 (26.6%) were positive by ELISA-IgM. Dengue virus was responsible for most of the recent infections in all regions; yellow fever cases detected in the current study were restricted to the Maraj and Southeast regions.
