Daniele Leite Alves, Roberta Muniz Luz Silva, João Pedro Melo de Freitas Santos, Rebeca Leão Amorim, Carolina Souza Santana, Felipe de Oliveira Andrade, Saadia Oliveira Ribeiro, Giselle Calasans de Souza Costa, Luciane Amorim Santos, Davi Tanajura Costa, Fernanda Khouri Barreto
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Background: The HTLV-1 affects 5 to 10 million people worldwide. It is estimated that 5 to 10% of the infected individuals develop severe diseases, such as HTLV-Associated Myelopathy/Tropical Spastic Paraparesis (HAM/TSP) or Adult T-Cell Leukaemia/Lymphoma (ATLL). HTLV-1 transmission can occur mainly through unprotected sexual contact and from mother to child during breastfeeding. No vaccines can contain this infection, and strategies to prevent transmission become a priority. Therefore, it is important to know the main dissemination routes of each region to design the best public health strategies for controlling the spread of this virus.
Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of family aggregation in HTLV-1 infection among patients treated at a reference centre in Brazil.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with patients between July 2021 and August 2022. A total of 67 individuals were attended, of which 17 were classified as index cases due to a history of family aggregation, with 120 family contacts.
Findings: We found a prevalence of 36% of individuals positive for HTLV-1 and the same for HTLV-1 negative, while 28% of the family members had unknown serology. The possible transmission routes were identified, and the familial transmission histories within each family were hypothesised.
Main conclusions: These data can support specific decisions regarding the local reality, such as a better health strategy, especially in preventing new HTLV-1 cases.
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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz is a journal specialized in microbes & their vectors causing human infections. This means that we accept manuscripts covering multidisciplinary approaches and findings in the basic aspects of infectious diseases, e.g. basic in research in prokariotes, eukaryotes, and/or virus. Articles must clearly show what is the main question to be answered, the hypothesis raised, and the contribution given by the study.
Priority is given to manuscripts reporting novel mechanisms and general findings concerning the biology of human infectious prokariotes, eukariotes or virus. Papers reporting innovative methods for diagnostics or that advance the basic research with these infectious agents are also welcome.
It is important to mention what we do not publish: veterinary infectious agents research, taxonomic analysis and re-description of species, epidemiological studies or surveys or case reports and data re-analysis. Manuscripts that fall in these cases or that are considered of low priority by the journal editorial board, will be returned to the author(s) for submission to another journal.
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