Reductions in the Prevalence and Incidence of Geohelminth Infections following a City-wide Sanitation Program in a Brazilian Urban Centre

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dc.contributor.authorMascarini-Serra, Luciene Maura [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorTelles, Carlos A.
dc.contributor.authorPrado, Matildes S.
dc.contributor.authorMattos, Sheila Alvim
dc.contributor.authorStrina, Agostino
dc.contributor.authorAlcantara-Neves, Neuza M.
dc.contributor.authorBarreto, Mauricio L.
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS)
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-20T15:33:59Z
dc.date.available2014-05-20T15:33:59Z
dc.date.issued2010-02-01
dc.description.abstractObjective: In the city of Salvador, a large urban centre in Northeast Brazil, a city-wide sanitation intervention started in 1997, aimed at improving the sewerage coverage of households from 26% to 80%. Our aim was to study the impact of the intervention on the prevalence and incidence of geohelminths in the school-aged population.Methods: The study comprised two comparable cohorts: the first assembled in 1997, before the intervention, and the second assembled in 2003, after the intervention. Both were sampled from 24 sentinel areas chosen to represent the different environmental conditions throughout the city. Copro-parasitological examinations were carried out on every individual from both cohorts, at baseline and nine months later. Demographic, socio-economic, and environmental data were collected using semi-structured questionnaires and environmental surveys. A hierarchical modelling approach fitting a sequence of Poisson multivariate linear models was undertaken to test the effect of the intervention variables on the prevalence and incidence rate ratios.Findings: 729 and 890 children aged 7-14 years (mean = 10.4 y, SD = 0.05 y) were analysed over the first and the second cohorts, respectively. The adjusted reductions of the prevalence and incidence rates at the second in relation to the first cohort were 27% and 34%, 25% and 32%, 33% and 26%, and 82% and 42% for geohelminths overall, Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, and hookworm, respectively. Hierarchical modelling showed that a major part of each of these reductions was explained by the intervention.Conclusion: Our results show that a city-wide sanitation program may reduce significantly the prevalence and incidence of geohelminths.en
dc.description.affiliationEstadual Univ Julio Mesquita Filho UNESP, Dept Parasitol, Inst Biociencias, São Paulo, Brazil
dc.description.affiliationUniversidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Inst Saúde Colet, Salvador, BA, Brazil
dc.description.affiliationEstadual Univ Feira Santana, Dept Ciencias Exatas, Salvador, Brazil
dc.description.affiliationUniversidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Inst Ciencias Saude, Salvador, BA, Brazil
dc.description.affiliationUnespEstadual Univ Julio Mesquita Filho UNESP, Dept Parasitol, Inst Biociencias, São Paulo, Brazil
dc.description.sponsorshipPrograma de Apoio aos Núcleos de Excelência (PRONEX)
dc.description.sponsorshipConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
dc.description.sponsorshippost-doctoral junior fellowship
dc.description.sponsorshipDepartment of Infrastructure, State Government of Bahia
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Wellcome Trust, UK
dc.description.sponsorshipIdCNPq: 661086/1998-4
dc.description.sponsorshipIdpost-doctoral junior fellowship: 152433/2007-4
dc.description.sponsorshipIdThe Wellcome Trust, UK: 072405/Z/03/Z
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dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000588
dc.identifier.citationPlos Neglected Tropical Diseases. San Francisco: Public Library Science, v. 4, n. 2, p. 7, 2010.
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pntd.0000588
dc.identifier.fileWOS000275296200002.pdf
dc.identifier.issn1935-2727
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/42379
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000275296200002
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherPublic Library Science
dc.relation.ispartofPLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
dc.relation.ispartofsjr2,589
dc.rights.accessRightsAcesso aberto
dc.sourceWeb of Science
dc.titleReductions in the Prevalence and Incidence of Geohelminth Infections following a City-wide Sanitation Program in a Brazilian Urban Centreen
dc.typeArtigo
dcterms.licensehttp://www.plos.org/about/open-access/license/
dcterms.rightsHolderPublic Library Science
unesp.author.orcid0000-0002-0215-4930[7]
unesp.campusUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Instituto de Biociências, Botucatupt

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