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- Title
Transmisión vertical del virus linfotrópico humano en el Hospital del Niño Manuel Ascensio Villarroel de Cochabamba estudio exploratorio.
- Authors
Baldomar Manzur, Carolina; Suárez Barrientos, Eduardo; Manzur Soria, Rosario; Córdova Rojas, Marisol
- Abstract
The human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I and II (HTLV) are retroviruses that are distributed worldwide, are characterized by the infection of TCD4+ cells and are associated with two types of important diseases such as adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL) and the neurological disease, tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP) or myelopathy. One of the main routes of transmission is the so-called vertical transmission, from mother to child through breastfeeding, whose transmission rate is 5.7 to 35.5%. Objectives: to explore the vertical transmission of the HTLV Virus in children from 8 months to 6 years of age, who were treated at the Manuel Ascencio Villarroel Children's Hospital, in the period 2020 -2021. Methods: quantitative, cross-sectional, descriptive, exploratory study. Results: of the 67 patients studied, a large part has Quechua ethnic origin, coming from the rural area. Clinically, they present a preserved eutrophic nutritional status (n=55), with an average of 17.2 months of breastfeeding. Of the total number of patients, one tested positive for HTLV by the ELISA technique, which corresponds to 1.5% of the patients studied. Conclusions: this exploratory study basically demonstrates that this virus is circulating in our environment, in 1.5% of the sample studied, which makes it necessary to deepen the study with a greater number of samples.
- Publication
Gaceta Médica Boliviana, 2023, Vol 46, Issue 2, p58
- ISSN
1012-2966
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.47993/gmb.v46i2.774