Seroepidemiology and occupational and environmental variables for leptospirosis, brucellosis and toxoplasmosis in slaughterhouse workers in the Paraná State, Brazil

Authors

  • Daniela Dib Gonçalves Universidade Estadual de Londrina; Department at Preventive Veterinarian Medicine
  • Paulo Sérgi Teles Federal Inspection Service in the Northern region of Paraná State
  • Célia Rosimarie dos Reis Universidade Estadual de Londrina; Department at Preventive Veterinarian Medicine
  • Fabiana Maria Ruiz Lopes Universidade Estadual de Londrina; Department at Preventive Veterinarian Medicine
  • Roberta Lemos Freire Preventive Veterinarian Medicine Department
  • Italmar Teodorico Navarro Preventive Veterinarian Medicine Department
  • Lucimara Aparecida Alves Biochemist of the Leptospirosis Laboratory
  • Ernest Eckehardt Muller Preventive Veterinarian Medicine Department
  • Julio Cesar de Freitas Preventive Veterinarian Medicine Department

Keywords:

Leptospira spp., Brucella spp., Toxoplasma gondii, Occupational diseases, Slaughterhouse workers

Abstract

Leptospirosis, brucellosis and toxoplasmosis are widely-distributed zoonosis, being the man an accidental participant of their epidemiological chains. The aim of this paper was to make a seroepidemiological report and identify occupational and environmental variables related to these illnesses in 150 workers in a slaughterhouse in the Northern region of Paraná. For the diagnosis of leptospirosis a microscopical seroagglutination test was applied; for brucellosis, the tamponated acidified antigen test and the 2-mercaptoetanol tests were used, and for toxoplasmosis the indirect immunofluorescence reaction test. For each employee an epidemiological survey was filled, which investigated occupational and environmental variables which could be associated with these infections. Positive results for leptospirosis were found in 4.00% of the samples, for brucellosis in 0.66% of samples and toxoplasmosis in 70.00%. From the three diseases researched, only the results for leptospirosis suggest occupational infection.

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Published

2006-06-01

Issue

Vol. 48 No. 3 (2006)

Section

Soroepidemiology

How to Cite

Gonçalves, D. D., Teles, P. S., Reis, C. R. dos, Lopes, F. M. R., Freire, R. L., Navarro, I. T., Alves, L. A., Muller, E. E., & Freitas, J. C. de. (2006). Seroepidemiology and occupational and environmental variables for leptospirosis, brucellosis and toxoplasmosis in slaughterhouse workers in the Paraná State, Brazil . Revista Do Instituto De Medicina Tropical De São Paulo, 48(3), 135-140. https://www.revistas.usp.br/rimtsp/article/view/30992