Anti-hepatitis A virus frequency in adolescents at an outpatient clinic in São Paulo, Brazil-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Anti-hepatitis A virus frequency in adolescents at an outpatient clinic in São Paulo, Brazil

Published:2006-02 Issue:1 Volume:48 Page:43-44
ISSN:0036-4665
Container-title:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
language:
Short-container-title:Rev. Inst. Med. trop. S. Paulo

Author:

Dinelli Maria Isabel Saraiva¹,Fisberg Mauro¹,Moraes-Pinto Maria Isabel de¹

Affiliation:

1. Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil

Abstract

The prevalence of hepatitis A virus (HAV) antibodies was assessed in adolescents (age ranging from 10.4 to 19.9 years) at an Adolescent Outpatient Clinic in São Paulo, Brazil. Anti-HAV was detected in 137 (54.2%) out of 253 individuals. When separated into two age groups, anti-HAV frequency was higher in the 15 to 19 year-old group (64%) in comparison to the 10 to 14 year-old group (46%) (Chi-square test: p = 0.004). These results suggest that adolescents in São Paulo are at risk of hepatitis A infection and are probably contracting HAV infection during this age period.

Publisher

FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

Subject

Infectious Diseases,General Medicine

Link

http://www.scielo.br/pdf/rimtsp/v48n1/28199.pdf

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