Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

O controle da tuberculose entre os índios Yanomami do Alto Rio Negro

2003; Volume: 11; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5123/s0103-460x2003000200002

0103-460X

Jorge Meireles Amarante, Vera Lúcia de Araújo Costa, J Pereira Monteiro,

Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare

Summary Due to the high incidence of the tuberculosis registered on year 2000 (all forms of tuber culosis = 1.61 1,3 for 100.000 inhabitants; pulmonary positives = 402,8 for 100.000 inhabitants) at the aboriginal villages MaturacAE, Ariabu and Auxiliadora of the Yanomami people, in the Amazon region of the high Black River in the State of Amazon, in April of 2002, efforts aiming the control of tuberculosis those indians,. The action consisted of an active search of tuberculosis cases in the villages through the examination (X-ray, PPD and baciloscopia) of those with respiratory symptoms and the contacts of cases of pulmonar y tuber culosis with positive smear notified during the last 2 years. Installing a por table X-ray equipment in the proper village resulted in gr eat utility, allowing 75 examinations in few days Beyond 2 positive pulmonary cases already known by the local system of health in the year of 2002, more 13 cases of tuber culosis (2 pulmonar y positives, 9 pulmonar y without bacteriological confirmation and 1 extra-pulmonar y) wer e discover ed. The patients were tr eated and the contacts of the positive cases without symptoms or suggestive signals of tuber culosis, strong reactors to the test with PPD, x-ray of normal thorax, the underwent chemoprophilaxis using isoniazida. After 11 months, in March of 2003, no new case had been registered and the repetition of the test with the PPD did not detect reaction in childr en of 15 years old or less.