Seroprevalence of selected viral, bacterial and parasitic infections among inpatients of a public psychiatric hospital of Mexico.
We sought to determine the frequency of serological markers of selected infections in a population of psychiatric patients in Durango City, Mexico, and to determine whether there are any epidemiological characteristics of the subjects associated with the infections. One hundred and five inpatients of a public psychiatric hospital of Durango were examined for HBsAg, anti-HCV antibodies, anti-HIV antibodies, anti-Brucella antibodies, rapid plasma reagin and anti-Cysticercus antibodies by commercially available assays. Anti-Cysticercus antibodies were confirmed by Western blot and HBsAg by neutralization assay. Epidemiological data from each participant were also obtained. Seroprevalences of HBsAg, anti-HCV, anti-HIV, anti-Brucella, rapid plasma reagin and anti-Cysticercus antibodies found were 0.0%, 4.8%, 0.9%, 0.0%, 1.9%, and 0.9%, respectively. Overall, 9 (8.6%) inpatients showed seropositivity to any infection marker. We concluded that our psychiatric inpatients have serological evidence of a number of infections. HCV is an important pathogen among our psychiatric inpatients. Health care strategies for prevention and control of infections in Mexican psychiatric patients should be considered.
Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, Avenida Universidad y Fanny Anitua, Durango, México. alvaradocosme@yahoo.com
Cosme
C
Alvarado-Esquivel
Miguel Angel
MA
Arreola-Valenzuela
Alfredo
A
Rodríguez-Briones
Olga Patricia
OP
Alanís-Quiñones
Sergio
S
Estrada-Martínez
Carlos
C
Luevanos-Becerra
Luis Felipe
LF
Martínez-Saenz
Sergio Arturo
SA
Martínez-García
Eda Guadalupe
EG
Ramírez-Valles
Isaac
I
Ibarra-Torres
Cesar Arnulfo
CA
González-Verdín
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