Hepatitis A incidence rate estimates from a pilot seroprevalence survey in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Zendy

Cláudio J. Struchiner | Zendy; Liz Maria de Almeida | Zendy; Raymundo Soares Azevedo | Zendy; Eduardo Massad | Zendy

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Hepatitis A incidence rate estimates from a pilot seroprevalence survey in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Author(s) -

Cláudio J. Struchiner,

Liz Maria de Almeida,

Raymundo Soares Azevedo,

Eduardo Massad

Publication year - 1999

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - Uncategorized

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/28.4.776

Subject(s) - sanitation , incidence (geometry) , hepatitis a , seroprevalence , environmental health , medicine , geography , demography , hepatitis , mathematics , virology , immunology , geometry , pathology , serology , sociology , antibody

To assess the impact of water sanitation and sewage disposal, part of a major environmental control programme in Rio de Janeiro, we carried out sero-prevalence studies for Hepatitis A virus (HAV) in three micro-regions in Rio de Janeiro. Each region varied with regard to level of sanitation. We are interested in assessing the discriminating power of age-specific prevalence curves for HAV as a proxy for improvement in sanitation. These curves will serve as baseline information to future planned surveys as the sanitation programme progresses.

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