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ORIGINAL ARTICLE • Epidemiol. Serv. Saúde 26 (3) • Jul-Sep 2017 • https://doi.org/10.5123/S1679-49742017000300008   copy

Underreporting of gestational, congenital and acquired syphilis among indigenous peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil, 2011-2014* * Manuscript based on the Master’s thesis by Zuleica da Silva Tiago, entitled ‘Sífilis adquirida, sífilis em gestante e sífilis congênita na população indígena do Mato Grosso do Sul: análise comparativa entre notificações do Sinan e DSEI-MS’, presented to the Program of Professional Post-graduation in Family Health at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, in 2016.

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Abstract

OBJECTIVE:

to describe the distribution, incidence, and underreporting of syphilis among indigenous peoples from Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.

METHODS:

descriptive study performed with secondary data of the Information System for Notifiable Diseases (Sinan) and of the Special Indigenous Sanitary District of Mato Grosso do Sul (DSEI-MS), from 2011 to 2014; the data from both sources were compared to identify underreporting.

RESULTS:

the highest incidence rates of syphilis in pregnant women were observed in 2014 (41.1/1,000 live births) and of congenital syphilis, in 2013 (10.7/1,000 live births); the highest numbers of underreporting of cases were for syphilis in pregnant women on Sinan (45/79), of congenital syphilis at DSEI-MS (8/17) in 2014, and of acquired syphilis on Sinan in 2011 and 2013 (5/9 and 10/18, respectively).

CONCLUSION:

syphilis has a high incidence; underreporting hides the extent of the disease in indigenous peoples from Mato Grosso do Sul.

Keywords:
Syphilis; Congenital Syphilis; Information Systems; Indigenous Population; Epidemiology, Descriptive

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