Leishmaniose Tegumentar Americana (LTA) nos municípios de Crato, Juazeiro do Norte e Barbalha, Estado do Ceará, Brasil, 2003 – 2005

• Ano de defesa: 2009
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Júlio César Ferreira da
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Epidemiologia; Leishmaniose
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/1865

Leishmaniasis is a protozoal disease caused by different species of Leishmania ROSS 1903. In Brazil, American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis (ATL) is no longer predominantly a rural phenomenon, due to the proximity of man to nature, where the disease occurs naturally as a zoonosis, but is now spreading to periurban areas. ATl occurs frequently in the cutaneous form with mostly painless soresor may be asymptomatic or subclinical. The objective of the present study was to describe the main clinical and epidemiological aspects of ATL, in three municipalities in Northeastern Brazil on records of the SINAN disease reporting system covering the period 2003 – 2005. The records of 300 patients were included in the study ( Crato n=136; Juazeiro do Norte n=66; Barbalha n=98). On the average, 53,7% ( 137/300) of the cases Were from the rural zone, with only 12,2% (8/66) registered for Juazeiro do Norte. Autochthonous cases accounted for 99% (295/300). Fifty-one percent (153/300) of the patients were male. Overall, 23% (69/300) were students, 16% (48/300) were formers and 16% (48/300) were retirees. The most common clinical presentations was cutaneous (97%; 291/300), sixty-nine records registered the vector, 51 of wich collected in patients home. In conclusion, ATL is a important endemie pathology in the region.