Inquérito soro epidemiológico e fatores ocupacionais e sócio-econômicos associados à brucelose e leptospirose em trabalhadores do Matadouro Público de Alagoa Grande - Paraíba

Abstract

Brucellosis and leptospirosis are infectious diseases that involve human beings and animals and are associated with some labor categories like: veterinarians, workers, rural laborers, among others. The goal of this work was to perform a seroepidemiologic study for brucellosis and tuberculosis and to identify the occupational and socio-economic factors related to diseases in 15 workers from the public slaughterhouse of Alagoa Grande - Paraiba. For brucellosis it was performed the Buffered Acidified Antigen test (BAA) for the research of antibodies against Brucella ssp. For the diagnosis of leptospirosis it was performed the Microscopic Agglutination Test (MAT) with 22 serovars of the Leptospira of reference. For brucellosis none of the samples was considered positive. For leptospirosis were detected positive samples (20.00%) with antibodies against the serovars Hardjo and Grippotyphosa, with titles of 1:100 and 1:200 respectively. We call the attention for the necessity of knowing the population exposed to the risks of getting infected with the disease to detect the real prevalence of brucellosis and leptospirosis in the region through a representative sample.