1. Seroprevalence of certain bacterial and viral infections among the Irula tribal population of Marakkanam, Tamil Nadu state, India.
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Gnanasekaran, Ashok, Paramasivam, Rajendran, Mohan, Kannan, Daniel, Joseph Christian, Murugasan, Karthikeyan, Perumal Kannabiran, Umamaheshwari, Selvaraj, Sivasankari, Chockalingam, Meenakshisundaram, Moorthy, Sivashankar, Melani, Rajendran, and Nivedha, Rajendran
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DISEASE vectors , *BACTERIAL diseases , *BLOOD testing , *CAMPS , *HEPATITIS B , *HIV infections , *LEPTOSPIROSIS , *MAPS , *RESEARCH methodology , *MEDICALLY underserved areas , *RATS , *RESEARCH , *SOCIAL skills , *SYPHILIS , *TYPHOID fever , *VIRUS diseases , *HANTAVIRUS diseases , *SEROPREVALENCE , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics - Abstract
AimSeroprevalence study in Irula tribe of Marakkanam, Tamil Nadu State was carried out for certain bacterial (typhoid, syphilis and leptospirosis) and viral infection (hanta,hepatitis B and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)).ResultHighest seroprevalence was observed for leptospirosis (61.1%) followed by, hepatitis B virus surface antigen (11.11%), syphilis (9.72%), typhoid (8.33%), hantavirus (6.9%) and HIV (2.77%).ObservationThe seroprevalence of leptospirosis and hantavirus may be attributed to their professional exposure to rodent that they catch in the open field and the syphilis, hepatitis B and HIV prevalence may be related to their sexual behavior and social customs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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