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| Stauffert,Dulce; Silveira,Mariangela Freitas da; Mesenburg,Marília Arndt; Manta,Adriane Brod; Dutra,Alessandra da Silva; Bicca,Guilherme Lucas de Oliveira; Villela,Marcos Marreiro. |
| Abstract Chagas disease reactivation has been a defining condition for acquired immune deficiency syndrome in Brazil for individuals coinfected with Trypanosoma cruzi and HIV since 2004. Although the first coinfection case was reported in the 1980s, its prevalence has not been firmly established. In order to know coinfection prevalence, a cross-sectional study of 200 HIV patients was performed between January and July 2013 in the city of Pelotas, in southern Rio Grande do Sul, an endemic area for Chagas disease. Ten subjects were found positive for T. cruzi infection by chemiluminescence microparticle immunoassay and indirect immunofluorescence. The survey showed 5% coinfection prevalence among HIV patients (95% CI: 2.0–8.0), which was 3.8 times as high as... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/other |
Palavras-chave: Chagas disease; Trypanosoma cruzi; AIDS. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702017000200180 |
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