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Master's Dissertation
DOI
https://doi.org/10.11606/D.9.2003.tde-30092006-183635
Document
Author
Full name
Ingridt Hildegard Vogler
Institute/School/College
Knowledge Area
Date of Defense
Published
São Paulo, 2003
Supervisor
Committee
Vaz, Adelaide Jose (President)
Sabino, Ester Cerdeira
Takei, Kioko
Title in Portuguese
Infecção pelo vírus da hepatite C na população de Londrina e região norte do Paraná: aspectos soroepidemiológicos e moleculares
Keywords in Portuguese
Biologia Molecular
Epidemiologia
hepatite c
Imunodiagnóstico
Imunologia Clínica
Abstract in Portuguese
O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a infecção pelo vírus da hepatite C (HCV) em indivíduos de Londrina e regiões circunvizinhas. Amostras de doadores de sangue e de indivíduos infectados pelo vírus da imunodeficiência humana (HIV) foram analisadas pela metodologia de enzimaimunoensaio de micropartículas (MEIA), obtendo-se a freqüência de positividade para anticorpos anti-HCV de 0,8% e de 20,2%, respectivamente. Um conjunto de 185 amostras soropositivas para anti-HCV pelo MEIA foi submetido a outros testes laboratoriais, para avaliação da correlação entre os diferentes métodos empregados. Apenas 79% destas amostras apresentaram resultado reagente em um segundo teste imunoenzimático (ELISA) empregado, sendo que a maior proporção de resultados discordantes ocorreu entre doadores de sangue. O mesmo ocorreu na pesquisa do RNA viral, onde 111 (67%) das 166 amostras analisadas apresentaram resultado positivo, sendo que a positividade foi maior entre indivíduos HIV soropositivos e pacientes com hepatite crônica do que entre os doadores de sangue. Quinze amostras foram submetidas ao immunoblot (IB), tendo-se obtido resultados positivos neste teste apenas nas amostras reagentes nos dois métodos imunoenzimáticos utilizados. Também pudemos verificar um grande número de amostras com resultado indeterminado no IB, inclusive entre amostras que eram negativas no segundo teste sorológico. Embora a amostragem fosse pequena, com apenas 61 amostras analisadas, a genotipagem do HCV revelou que os genótipos circulantes em nossa região são o tipo 1 (77,1%), seguido do tipo 3 (21,3%) e o tipo 2 (1,6%). Finalmente, avaliamos alguns fatores de risco associados à infecção pelo HCV, sendo que o principal fator de risco encontrado em indivíduos co-infectados pelo HIV/HCV foi o uso de drogas injetáveis, e em indivíduos sem infecção pelo HIV foi a transfusão sangüínea. O presente estudo contribuiu para a avaliação do perfil da infecção pelo HCV em indivíduos da nossa população, permitindo inclusive verificar a distribuição dos genótipos do HCV nesta região.
Title in English
Hepatitis C virus infection in a population from Londrina, PR, Brazil: serological, epidemiological and molecular aspects
Keywords in English
anti-HCV
Epidemiology
genotypes
Hepatitis C
molecular biology
Abstract in English
The objective of this work was to evaluate hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in individuals of Londrina, Paraná State, Brazil, and adjacent areas. Samples of blood donors and individuals infected with Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were analyzed by microparticle enzyme immunoassay (MEIA). Anti-HCV antibody frequency was 0.8% in blood donors, and 20.2% in HIV patients. A group of 185 anti-HCV positive samples by MEIA was submitted to other laboratorial tests, in order to access the correlation among different methods used. Only 79% of samples were reactive by a second antibody-screening test (enzime-linked immunosorbent assay - ELISA), and a great proportion of discordant results was verified among blood donors. The same happened at HCV-RNA detection by polymerase chain reaction (PCR), where 111/166 (67%) of samples showed positive results, which was greater among HIV positive individuals and patients with chronic hepatitis than among blood donors. Only 15 samples were submitted to immunoblot (IB): positive results were obtained only at samples which were also reactive by the two antibody-screening tests used. We could also verify a great number of anti-HCV indeterminate results by IB, which also happened among samples tested negative by the second serologic assay. Although the small number of samples used in genotype determination of HCV, only 61, our data revealed that the circulating genotypes in our region are type 1 (77.1%), followed by type 3 (21.3%) and type 2 (1.6%). Finally, we evaluated some risk factors associated to HCV infection, and we found that intravenous drug use was the most common risk factor among patients HIV/HCV co-infected, while blood transfusion was the most important risk factor in the group without HIV infection. The present study contributed to the evaluation of HCV infection in our population, so that the distribution of HCV genotypes in the region could be accessed.
 
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