Presença do vírus sincicial respiratório em profissionais de saúde de um Hospital Universitário da cidade de Cajazeiras-PB.

Abstract

The respiratory diseases have become a serious public health problem a few years ago, for reaching the all population, indiscriminately. Among the infections, those that stand out are Acute Respiratory Infections (IRAs) with great impact on the rate of hospitalization and deaths, especially among children under five years of age, where the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) stands out as a causative agent of these worldwide infections. In Brazil studies prove that bronchiolitis is the main clinical manifestation of infection by this viral agent, striking mainly children under five years of age, who are infected during contact with adults who live most of the time. Although the epidemiological importance, studies in the northeastern region are scarce. The purpose of this research is to detect the incidence and seasonality of infections caused by the Respiratory Syncytial Virus in health professionals active in University Hospital Júlio Bandeira, backwoods paraibano. It´s about a cross- sectional study and descriptive of quantitative approach. The samples were obtained by nasal aspirates collected from nursing team active in assistance of the children attended in this health institution, being tested for RSV during the months of October of 2016 to June of 2017, realized by immunochromatography, using the BinaxNOW Kit-RSV card. Were realized nasal wash samples, being composed of 34 nasal collected from nurses (40,90%) and 46 technical (55,49%). In the analyzed period we detected positive findings of antigenic proteins of Syncytial Virus in samples from three of the nursing technical professionals, corresponding to (3,61%) of this functional class.