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.
Alvarado-Esquivel
Cosme
C
Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, Avenida Universidad y Fanny Anitua, Durango, México. alvaradocosme@yahoo.com
Arreola-Valenzuela
Miguel Angel
MA
Rodríguez-Briones
Alfredo
A
Alanís-Quiñones
Olga Patricia
OP
Estrada-Martínez
Sergio
S
Luevanos-Becerra
Carlos
C
Martínez-Saenz
Luis Felipe
LF
Martínez-García
Sergio Arturo
SA
Ramírez-Valles
Eda Guadalupe
EG
Ibarra-Torres
Isaac
I
González-Verdín
Cesar Arnulfo
CA
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