Filariasis programme - Recife - Brazil

Dreyer, Gerusa

doi:10.1590/s0074-02761987000800070

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“…Few prevalence studies that were representative of the population at risk in endemic areas of the Americas were identified; some studies gave a small estimate of the number of those affected and their significance as a public health problem [ 19 , 21 , 23 , 28 , 32 ]. It was observed that there is an underestimation of the number of patients with lymphoedema, which is largely underestimated in areas still endemic, as well as in those areas that have already achieved transmission disruption.…”

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Lymphatic Filariasis: A Systematic Review on Morbidity and Its Repercussions in Countries in the Americas

Medeiros

Vieira

Xavier

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The Global Program to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) is a program that aims to eliminate lymphatic filariasis by 2030. The GPELF strategy is based on interrupting transmission using mass drug administration (MDA) and, in parallel, managing morbidity cases. However, it has been seen that there is a shortage of research in the literature and public policies regarding this last pillar. In this study, we reviewed the literature and available information regarding the burden of filarial morbidity. In addition, we identified that in the Americas, the implementation of structured services with regard to morbidity assistance in the Americas was scarce. We formed a review that aimed to assess the pathogenesis, epidemiology, repercussions, and treatment of filarial morbidity in countries in the Americas where lymphatic filariasis is endemic. Structured searches were carried out on PubMed, LILACS, Scopus, and Web of Science databases without time and language restrictions. Three reviewers evaluated the 2150 studies and performed data extraction, and quality assessment by assigning scores to the studies found. The current literature and available information on the burden of filarial morbidity, as well as the implementation of structured services with regard to morbidity assistance in the Americas, were all found to be scarce. Now that this knowledge gap has been identified, both health services and researchers need to seek the implementation and enhancement of the maintenance of GPELF strategies that relate to the morbidity pillar.

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Lymphatic Filariasis: A Systematic Review on Morbidity and Its Repercussions in Countries in the Americas

Medeiros

Vieira

Xavier

et al. 2021

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“…Pesquisas conduzidas pelo Centro de Pesquisas Aggeu Magalhães/Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, têm evidenciado que a bancroftose continua a ser um problema de saúde pública em Recife, havendo um grande número de indivíduos expostos, infectados ou doentes, com considerável aumento da endemia 8 . Algumas comunidades de baixo nível socioeconô-mico na área urbana de Recife, geralmente favelas, têm mostrado prevalências de até 15% e a parasitose tem sido detectada em outras cidades da Região Metropolitana de Recife como Olinda e Jaboatão dos Guararapes, locais onde se desconhecia a existência da bancroftose 9,33,39 .…”

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Filariose bancroftiana no Brasil

Rocha

Fontes

1998

Rev. Saúde Pública

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Foi feita revisão dos estudos sobre a distribuição geográfica e prevalências da filariose linfática bancroftiana no Brasil. Entre 1951 a 1958 foram realizados inquéritos hemoscópicos e entomológicos no País, sendo a transmissão autóctone comprovada em apenas 11 Municípios: Ponta Grossa (SC), 14,5%; Belém (PA), 9,8%; Barra de Laguna (SC), 9,4%; Recife (PE), 6,9%; Castro Alves (BA), 5,9%; Florianópolis (SC), 1,4%; São Luís (MA), 0,6%; Salvador (BA), 0,4%; Maceió (AL), 0,3%; Manaus (AM), 0,2% e Porto Alegre (RS), 0,1%. A distribuição da parasitose era urbana e focal, principalmente em cidades litorâneas. As ações de controle implementadas levaram a uma apreciável queda nas taxas de microfilarêmicos sendo consideradas, a partir de então, áreas endêmicas para filariose linfática no Brasil somente as cidades de Belém e Recife. Estudos recentes mostram transmissão ativa da parasitose, com prevalências superiores às detectadas no passado, em Maceió, cujo foco era considerado extinto, e em Recife. O conhecimento da situação atual da bancroftose no Brasil é de fundamental importância para a implementação de ações de controle da endemia envolvendo o Ministério da Saúde e órgãos de saúde pública.

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“…Bancroftian filariasis has been more widespread in Brazil than it is today, when only three foci were known: Belém (Pará) (Fraiha-Neto 1993); Recife (Pernambuco) (Dreyer 1987, Medeiros et al 1992 and Maceió (Alagoas) (Dreyer et al 1991, Fontes et al 1994. In each of these areas, these authors recorded natural infections of Wuchereria bancrofti.…”

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