Histórico do diagnóstico da Doença de Chagas do Hospital Universitário Walter Cantídio de 1997 a 2017

Abstract

The Northeast Region shows great importance in the epidemiological context of Chagas' disease (DC), being the second in number of infected individuals and triatomine infestation rates in the national surveys of prevalence and distribution of vectors performed between 1975 and 1980, with 3, 05% prevalence of chagasic infection in the rural population. In this study we aimed to investigate the history of CD serological findings at the Walter Cantídio University Hospital, in addition to profiling patients from socioeconomic data. The s tudy covers data from two research laboratories at the Federal University of Ceará. The first, the Laboratory of Parasitology , where the serological tests were performed for DC, from which data were collected from seroepidemiology, from 1997 to 2017, where the mean annual positive was 51.4 patients, and 27.9 negative. The second is the Research Laboratory in DC, from where we investigated the results from the Characterization and Patient Segment form in the period from 2012 to 2016, where all patients are c hagasic and respond to social and economic issues. The following groups were predominant in the study population: patients between 46 and 65 years of age, with low level of scho oling, low family income, breed (or bred ) animals, and lived at some time in th e house builded with mud.